Paypal Friendly Stores: Sports Gear, Equipment & Apparel
All sports sites listed here, accept online Paypal payments.
If you live outside the USA, please make sure that the store
serves international shoppers by reading the comments in the "Notes"
column, next to the merchant's names.
Please select one of the following store subcategories:
General Sports Shops
| Store Name | Notes | Customer Service Phone | Website Link |
Sport Specific Stores
| Store Name | Notes | Customer Service Phone | Website Link |
General Sport Product Shopping Information
All of the above online sports gear retailers take Paypal (as well as all major credit cards) and you can pay them straight from your account balance.
Many of them serve international customers, but please examine each site's specific policies, in order to make sure that your country is being serviced.
In our extremely competitive world, there's little wonder that sport is now one of the most popular leisure and recreational activities, no matter where you live.
Some people do it strictly for fun, some do it to keep fit and to enjoy the health benefits and a minority of us do it for a living (and don't we envy them…).
Either way, many of us have a sport that we enjoy playing and usually it requires us to buy all sorts of specific accessories, sportswear and sometimes even serious equipment.
All this gear can be purchased in sporting good specialty stores, which exist in large numbers both offline and online.
When shopping online, you'll usually find 2 types of such stores.
The first is the "one-stop" shop model, where one site sells goods for practically all types of sports, all under the same roof.
It's comfortable, extremely convenient and in most cases, it probably works beautifully for the average consumer.
The second type is a sport-specific merchant that focuses only in one field (like golf, volleyball, baseball, etc).
It has a smaller number of items, compared to the former type, but it offers far more products per that specific line of sport, than any general superstore.
Usually, it suits best professionals or people who are really serious and passionate about the sport of their choice.
The best way to save your hard earned Paypal money is to invest in high quality products.
They're far more reliable than the cheap, discounted ones, they will last much longer and they usually deliver better performance.
The big brands are big for a reason and unless you're really on a shoestring budget, always prefer purchasing products from established companies with a long and positive track record over no-name ones.
After buying an item, keep the receipt and the warranty card in a safe place.
You may need it sometime when you'll need service for the product or in case you'll want to return it to the shop in order to get a refund or in case you'll want to replace it with a different model.

