New trend on ebay? Paypal scam

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Posted By: Mrc32

I have seen this a couple of times, but never before this obvious. This seller should know it is against Paypal rules to pull this type of stuff.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2728201921&category=31719

He is adding a 3% fee to the final sales price to cover his Paypal fees

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Posted By: jay behrens

And with a 3% surcharge, he is making money on the deal. Not much, but it's still more than it costs him. I already filed a complaint against him beucase it clearly states in the seller rules you cannot do this. eBay has a catagory for reporting just such offenses.

Jay

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Posted By: mrc32

He has removed the 3% charge from his auctions. Good job. where did you report the abuse? Link?

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Posted By: jay behrens

Here's the link.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-RS.html

Jay

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Posted By: B C Daniels

junk anyway!

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Posted By: jay berhens

junk is all I buy :-p

Jay

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Posted By: julie

When you use my credit card, it costs you 3%! I always send terry K. a personal check for 3% when i use one.

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Posted By: jay berhens

different banks charge differnt merchant rates. PayPal charges 30 cents plus 2.2%. I have yet to see a commercial bank that can match that rate. The best we could get for my comic store was 3.5% for MC/Visa and 6% for Amex (which we didn't take becuase of the rate).

If you make use of PayPal's debit card, you get 1.5% cash, thus lowering your rate to measly .7%. Then throw in the interest that you earn on the money you keep in your account and is costs you almost nothing to take PayPal as a form of payment.

Jay