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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: JimCrandell
I just tell them I am sending them a check and I don't do paypal. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I have been given hassles and flat out refusals in the past when wishing to pay by check. I have also had buyers who will not pay by either check or PayPal, instead opting to go the money order route. "Do you take money orders?" has become a very popular question as of late. Oddly enough, none of those people end up winning my items. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jdrum
I've paid for money order or check for years even in auctions which state PayPal only. Ususally a brief, friendly note bf the auction ends telling them that you intend to bid if it is alright to pay by MO or check does the trick. Have not been turned down yet but I am sure it is coming. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Steve
As a seller I love it when a bidder asks if he could pay with a check or MO. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jantz
I have had a few sellers that I have dealt with in the past contact me through Ebay's email system and outright tell me that if I wanted to pay with a check or money order that they would still accept either form of payment from me. I didn't have to ask. I thought it was kind of funny that some well known sellers were going around Ebay's rules. I see nothing wrong with this practice either, just savvy business men & women trying to earn a few bucks. Lets face it, in the end, Ebay still gets a cut of the final selling price anyway. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rick
An interesting topic and one close to my heart. I just purchased a card and despite sending an email asking if it were okay to purchase and pay with a cashiers check, I got no response for nearly two weeks after the closing. I bid on it anyway, was high bidder, emailed three times asking for name and address and got a snotty remark about not being able to read! |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jim VB
I'll admit to being dense, if someone can explain to me: |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jdrum
I don't get money orders @ the post office. You can get Western Union a lot of places and I keep my checks in my office. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Quoting Jantz: "...just savvy business men & women trying to earn a few bucks." |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jantz
Jodi - Well said...well said |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Steve
From the same buyers point of view, why would anyone prefer to pay by money order? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: JimCrandell
Steve, |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jim VB
Despite my ever advancing age and Luddite tendencies, I find it much easier to pay by electronic means. I pay as many bills and recurring charges as possible that way. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: dan mckee
I prefer to buy with paypal for prtection as Jim stated. I use my credit card for double protection. I have had paypal deny a claim and then my credit card refund me and smoke paypal. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Steve
JimVB |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rich Klein
For non-plastic payments (i.e. Checks, Money Orders, Cash,...) there is a little matter that one can not legally give discounts for non-plastic payments. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
"...there is a little matter that one can not legally give discounts for non-plastic payments" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Red
On #2 I believe it's legal to offer a discount for payment by cash or check. Like at the gas station when a cash discount is offered. What you can't do is offer to accept credit cards if an additional percentage is added on. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rich Klein
http://www.gofso.com/Premium/LE/06_le_ic/fg/fg-merchants.html |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Joann
Not trying to hijack the thread, but thought someone might have a quick answer to this one. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jdrum
Looking at this another way. If Paypal is required and results in a substantial uptick in volume shouldn't they be able to lower their fees. Contra, if PayPal were to eventually become the only payment form accepted what mechanism could keep their fees in check? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: dan mckee
I am going to have to disagree with you. I am not a legal expert by any means but I can assure you that I can find you 2 dozen convenience stores in Maryland and the Eastern Shore that have credit card services and will NOT accept a credit card for less than a $20 charge. 1 in Ocean City will take it for less but then charges you an extra .50 for that. Are you telling me I can call the credit card company and issue a complaint?? Dan |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rich Klein
YES! |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: dan mckee
cool, I will try it on 1 to see. Do I just call the number on the back of my card? The Ocean City one has an unfriendly chracter so I will use them as the guinnea pig, |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rich Klein
Once you talk to a live operator; explain what you are doing and let them either take the complaint or tell you whom to call. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: PC
Credit card acceptance rules are set by VISA and MasterCard, and while the rules are written differently, you can draw the following general conclusions (note that Discover and Amex have somewhat different standards): |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Matt
"the harshest penalty in this instance would be losing the ability to accept credit cards." |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jim VB
"Why would a credit card company enforce that punishment on the merchant?" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: PC
Merchants that want to accept credit/debit card payments have to sign an agreement that says (among many other things) they will comply with the rules established by card associations. So, the merchant would be punished, because the merchant is the one violating the card associations' rules. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Andrew S.
"Tell that to Bob Eaton at R&R. I for one am not complaining in saving 2% each time I send him a check." |
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