[X4U] Auction fees (was "Not an OS X issue but ....")

[Ken Johnson]

For a while now, PayPal has been the only accepted form of payment by  
eBay, although another similar service has been recently added.  I do  
a fair amount of selling on eBay, and beginning early this year they  
would change your listing - or delete it if you tried to allow another  
form of payment.  As a result of all this, an e-mail from a potential  
buyer offerring some other form of payment (when the listing says  
PayPal only) looks, to the seller, like a potential scam, and they are  
frequently ignored.

eBay owns PayPal, and earns revenues on listing fees, selling fees,  
and PayPal fees.

Ken


On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Ed Gould wrote:

> A few years ago I signed up for PAYPAL and it reasonably worked for  
> about a year. Then apparently PAYPAL was hacked and I started  
> getting all sorts of false requests to give out PAYPAL information.  
> I resisted as I needed it from time to time. I also reported to  
> PAYPAL all these phony requests. Paypal finally did something and  
> apparently you had to re-register (or something its been a while but  
> it wanted something like reregistering I do not remember) they  
> started sending out monthly notes and I resisted reregistering then  
> it went to weekly emails saying my account was going to be deleted.  
> I thought fine since they wouldn't tell me how to delete my account  
> let them delete it. I stopped getting phishing email purporting to  
> be from PAYPAL when they deleted my account so it seemed people were  
> still getting past PAYPAL.
>
> All was fine for about a year (no more phishing from people playing  
> PAYPAL). Then I was going to buy some software that only would use  
> PAYPAL. I said to myself NEVER AGAIN would I use PAYPAL but I  
> stumbled because this vendor would not accept any other form of  
> payment. I wrote to the responsible person and have not heard back  
> so either he is not reading his email or he tossed my email.
>
> I am asking what other options are there out there? I do not mind  
> using a credit card (as long as it is secure) but there are places  
> that will not use anything else. What are you doing to avoid PAYPAL  
> and what can someone do if they only support PAYPAL?
>
> Ed
>
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