05-09-2006, 02:08 AM
To reiterate, if you stipulate PayPal in an auction, you have to accept credit cards and the fees that go along with those transactions. You can't write into your auction, for example, that you only accept direct bank account transactions via PayPal, no credit cards...your auction will be pulled in a NY Second if eBay gets wind of that.
PayPal is not a free service, by any measure, if you want to buy and sell on eBay with success. You can look at it like it's a necessary evil, or you can use it to your advantage. Personally, I've only had one bad transaction via PayPal out of more than 800 auctions--and even then, it was successfully resolved in about 45 days in my favor.
I like PayPal. It gets me buyers who would otherwise not participate in my auctions; it's convenient, quick, secure, and easy to use. PayPal does a service and they get compensated for it. That's fair to me, as as seller and buyer.
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PayPal is not a free service, by any measure, if you want to buy and sell on eBay with success. You can look at it like it's a necessary evil, or you can use it to your advantage. Personally, I've only had one bad transaction via PayPal out of more than 800 auctions--and even then, it was successfully resolved in about 45 days in my favor.
I like PayPal. It gets me buyers who would otherwise not participate in my auctions; it's convenient, quick, secure, and easy to use. PayPal does a service and they get compensated for it. That's fair to me, as as seller and buyer.
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