This is a question that has come up due to a client that lost their merchant account due to a mistake that was absolutely ridiculous on the bank's part in Canada but, nevertheless, has to go offshore on at least a temporary basis.
Since I have no real dealings with offshore accounts/payment processing, I'm not sure what's good and what's bad and who to deal with in that regard.
I never did trust egold very much. It seems too vague and no one I know of has actually used it. I'm not saying it won't work...I'm just saying I don't have enough knowledge of what it is (and their site is no help that way) to use it.
It's not the product that's "high risk". It's actually the customer. Without getting into great detail, he attempted to repeatedly process a transaction that he had no business processing (before asking me).
i heard some very good opinions about them, but i don't use them myself (but i have been thinking about that).
it's something like paypal, exept the fact that your money is backed by gold. i don't know what that exactly means, but i guess it's not very different from paypal.. just create an account for 'testing', and when you are better known with it, use it.. that's the best review
Update: we actually were able to resolve the Paypal issue, so in the short run we're back with them until we can establish that the client is a good boy and that it was someone else's fault.
Gonna keep the other suggestions in mind as a plan B though. Thanks all.
i can recommend that one 
