I've never understood the Paypal hate. The few times I've had to call Paypal I not only got through within minutes but the person on the line spoke perfect English and quickly assisted me with my issue. Can't say the same for any other platform I've dealt with.
I've dealt with a Managed Payments type atmosphere early on with my Shopify store, via Shopify Payments. Just like eBay's Managed Payments, Shopify doesn't actually run Shopify Payments, some third party international bank does. Everything was fine for over a year, I never had transaction issues, disputes or anything, then out of the blue I get an email that I can't use Shopify payments anymore, no warning, no explanation, no way to appeal, nothing. Shopify couldn't help me because they're just the face of it, they have zero power and provide almost zero support, they couldn't even tell me why I was cut off. And you can't speak to the person at the bank who made the decision. So now I use Paypal on my site exclusively. I will no longer be put in a middle man situation again, and that's what managed payments is.
If you think eBay support is bad for eBay platform issues that they actually have control over, enjoy when you have a payment issue and they have no power because they don't actual run their own payment system, some international bank does and they will care even LESS about you than eBay does.
