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Some vendors only accept check or paypal since they don't have a merchant account to accept credit cards, so this isn't a complete workaround.

Using facts and citations to back up your point? You sly dog!

What if I told you there was no Series A funding: http://bit.ly/QCZCoD

> What I'd really like is something built on my actual purchasing history, deeper into the venue than just presence

Maybe next Foursquare will launch a Pay with (four)Square competitor. I feel like they're uniquely positioned to get this type of purchasing data/history and do something useful with it. By comparison, Square has 75,000 registered merchants accepting Pay With Square [1]; LevelUp has only 3,000 merchants [2]; Foursquare has 1,000,000 merchants.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/technology/personaltech/as... [2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/levelup-zero-scvngr...

Can't speak for Braintree, but generally US-launched financial services take some time to expand internationally for two reasons: 1) tons of compliance and regulation unique to each country, and 2) having to interface with the specific payment technologies in that country.

PayPal is one of the best international payment options because it's had more time and money to throw at these problems than almost anyone else.