Hi!

Do you know if there are any companies like PayPal.com currently for
sale?  How much are they asking for their companies?

The second part of my question is what would be the projected cost to
start up a Web site like PayPal.com?  Where basically you have
agreements to work with the ACH and a merchant bank that processes
credit cards to transfer funds from agent to agent which customers can
use as they sign up for accounts on the Web site?

I checked out: http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Financial_Services/Transaction_Clearing/Digital_Money/
-- it looked like a good place to start.

Of course, the ultimate answer is for total cost is, "it just
depends," but if you could provide specifics that'd be great.  How
much does it cost to have the site hosted on a server?  What kind of
programming costs are required?  Are there pre-packaged software
packages?  I know this is a loaded question.  Let me know if you
require any more specifics.

My ultimate goal is simply to write a business plan to create a
company like PayPal.com that can electronically transfer funds from
either a checking account or a credit card to another checking
account.

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Request for Question Clarification by jbf777-ga on 10 Oct 2005 15:24 PDT

Hello lavidge -

Thank you for your question.

Would you be able to provide a budget range for us to work with?

Thanks,

jbf777
Researcher

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Clarification of Question by lavidge-ga on 10 Oct 2005 16:47 PDT

What do you mean by budget range?  You mean for this research question
or for developing a site?

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Request for Question Clarification by jbf777-ga on 10 Oct 2005 21:10 PDT

Developing a site...