I think there are enough payment services, we don't need another one. We need a central one. PayPal is really big and seen as many as the way for online payments. And I agree, it works really easily and good. Only there are the problems as mentioned in the article...

Yes, and there are too many business software companies too. Why can't we just leave it all to Microsoft, and we'll all be happy?

Like EventBrite? http://www.eventbrite.com/

Eventbrite doesn't pay out until 5 days after the event, but at least they announce that up front and don't tend to randomly freeze accounts and hold on to your money indefinitely.

And sometimes, if they like you, they pay out early.