Slightly Off Topic regarding eBay account

[Vintagecatcher]

I was under the impression that eBay had forced sellers to only use PayPal.

Is my understanding incorrect? Or do sellers still accept other forms of payments?

Any help is appreciated.


Thanks,


Patrick

[steve B]

They only allow certain forms of payment. Paypal, Merchant CC processing, and one other online payment place that's a Paypal knockoff with higher fees. I'm not sure, but they may require a seller to take Paypal.

But there'a a loophole in the fine print that allows a seller to take any form of payment they're comfortable with IF the buyer has a reason for not wanting to use Paypal. Like picking up in person, or not having a CC.

I'm not sure you'd find many buyers wiling to take other payments. There are some good things about Paypal, among them the integrated click and ship which gets a tiny discount and free delivery confirmation for priority and cheap DC for first class. With the online postage you don' even have to go to a post office, the carrier picks it up.

Edited to say that a seller can't state in the listing that they will take other payments. You have to ask.

Steve B

[D. Bergin]

Yeah, I'll take any form of payment anybody wants to send to me, but I'm not allowed to say what those might be in the listing.

Just a venue.

[Vintagecatcher]

Thought this article was interesting since this is what I'm experiencing with them as well. (Read the section regarding PayPal.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/yo...28haggler.html


Patrick