An article relating to this blog post on Finextra:
Consumers prefer PayPal over credit cards for online shopping - KPMG
PayPal has overtaken credit cards as a preferred form of payment for consumers shopping on the Web, according to a survey of global shopping habits conducted by KPMG.
See article
With an average of only 322 subjects interviewed per country its a very small sample. If the subject group surveyed were early adopters, then this would further skew the data. or if EBAY was where the respondents were recruited from... As previously mentioned
- in the current recession Debit is much more actively used than credit, and Paypal is often funded with cards....meaning that a card transaction was a precursor to the Paypal transaction. Be good to see empirical data!