Have you ever used Setcom?

February 17, 2009 8:36 PM

Anyone ever used the Paypal-like service Setcom?

I just purchased an item on Etsy expecting to be able to pay with Paypal, and the seller has written to inform me that she is from South Africa, and, to quote her, "South Africa isn't covered by Paypal, so I use a secure payment site called Setcom."

Do you know of this service? I've never heard of Setcom.

posted by cymru_j to shopping (3 comments total)

For what it's worth, she is correct that South Africans can not receive PayPal payments.

From Setcom's web site, they seem to be based in South Africa and serve mainly South Africans, which would be sufficient to explain why you (we) haven't heard of it.
posted by winston at 9:05 PM on February 17

Sorry, but that's not correct that South Africans cannot use PayPal. I'm a South African and have been using PayPal for more than three years.

There was a brief time when PayPal didn't support South Africa, but that was long ago.
posted by worldshift at 10:14 PM on February 20

Hm. According to PayPal's web site, South African's can send but not receive payment with PayPal. Is that out of date? If so, it might be the cause of the seller's confusion too.
posted by winston at 7:16 PM on February 21