eBay & Paypal Fees

[Acollector]

Originally Posted by glchen

You can accept cash, money orders, or checks on ebay, and in fact, I've received payment via all of these methods from ebay sales. (Yep, I've had people send me cash in envelopes before.) You just need to setup your listings to not require paypal accounts from the buyers, and you're good to go. There is less protection for buyers this way however, because there's no way for ebay to confirm that the buyer really did send the funds. I still prefer paypal payment and the 3% fees because I prefer to receive the payments much faster rather than have to wait to see if I get the payment through the mail. One time a money order payment got lost in the mail, so it was a pain to try to keep checking to see if I got it, but it never came.

How many buyers are willing to pay by cash, check, or money orders? Also if you post in your description you accept those forms, ebay will cancel the listings, so yes it is possible to accept them, but ebay doesn't allow it. The non Paypal requirement is if you have a merchant credit card account, so yes you can accept those payments, but ebay makes it online payments only. Ebay has brained washed their sheep to think the cash, checks, and money orders contain cooties and they will get robbed for sure if they send them. I prefer the other 3 classics for a couple of reasons. I think it as a major conflict of interest that ebay has paypal. If they are going to require Paypal, then it should be no Paypal fees for an ebay sale since there are seller fees. If Paypal payments are made elsewhere, I can understand the fees.