fleecies
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posted on January 15, 2003 05:57:04 PM new
I won an auction, and paid with Paypal as requested using my credit card. The seller denied the payment. Here is his explanation:
"Hi. I did receive the payment from you but I mistakenly denied it. When I tried to accept it, it said something about a certain percentage taken off the amount if I accept a credit card payment. I would rather you transfer the money to your paypal account before sending me the payment in order to avoid any transaction fees."
I'm not going to fund my Paypal account from my bank account--it's been a couple of years since they sent the verification amounts, and I ain't gonna go back and check through all my d*** statements to try to find out what they were. Not to mention that it takes 3-4 business days to make the transfer (according to Paypal). My perception is that the fees are part of the cost of doing business--if you don't want the fees, don't accept Paypal.
So what should I tell this guy?
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fleecies
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posted on January 15, 2003 06:02:15 PM new
Just to add--the dadgum auction includes the auto insert from Paypal that states "Pay me securely with any major credit card through Paypal." Doesn't he even read his own auction???
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hair2dye4
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posted on January 15, 2003 06:40:38 PM new
I say send him your second paragraph as what you said explains it all..
good luck, tell him to talk to paypal about there fees and wish him luck! Is he a newbie?
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trai
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posted on January 15, 2003 07:17:27 PM new
I would ask him to change his tos to let bidders know that any paypal payments must be non credit card.
Sounds like he only has a personal account. Since this mistake was on their part, just ask to resend it as you do not have any other way of doing it at this late date. Can not hurt to ask.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 15, 2003 07:27:01 PM new
this guy has character,can you find out if he is available,why dont you marry him??
if you dont,then i will.
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sanmar
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posted on January 15, 2003 07:35:47 PM new
Where has this dodo been? It is going to cost you regardless where the funds come from. Do you think P/P is going to let you do any thing for free?? Get Real! That is how they survive.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 15, 2003 07:37:48 PM new
sanmar,i can see you have not seen your match yet,this guy is like humphrey bogart.john wayne all rolled into one,he has character,he has style.
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fleecies
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posted on January 15, 2003 08:43:20 PM new
He's cheap  stopwhining, he's all yours 
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kiara
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posted on January 15, 2003 10:22:14 PM new
[ edited by kiara on Jan 15, 2003 11:31 PM ]
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sparkz
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posted on January 15, 2003 11:11:21 PM new
I would send him an email and tell him that as a condition of your parole, you cannot have a bank account and therefore it is not possible to fund your Paypal account to accomodate his request. I would further state that he should accept your credit card payment before the owner of the card discovers it's missing. Seriously though, you might want to spend a little time to explain the facts of life (and Paypal) to this newbie before a hustler burns him.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 16, 2003 07:16:38 AM new
some men may be cheap to the outsiders,but sure can take good care of his family,aka food on the table and shelter over your head,
he has my respect.
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shop4shoes
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posted on January 16, 2003 07:42:07 AM new
some men may be cheap to the outsiders,but sure can take good care of his family,aka food on the table and shelter over your head,
Lots of people are cheap to everyone, including family. He is probably that sort.
I dated a guy that was really cheap, only I didn't know it. Apparently I was the only person he would spend money on...As it should be.
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Dragonmom
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posted on January 16, 2003 07:43:44 AM new
Invite him here... He can meet stopwhining, and we can celebrate a wedding.
Or, he can educate himself a little and learn how to do internet business. He's not going totake such good care of his family if he insists on terms that lose sales.
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trai
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posted on January 16, 2003 08:28:02 AM new
Cheap??? Who me?? Hahahaaaaa
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fleecies
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posted on January 16, 2003 11:21:20 AM new
Thanks, Trai. Now there's soda all over my keyboard
Yup, I hear them weddin' bells a-chimin' for ol' stopwhinin'.
Told my seller to either accept the payment per his tos or cancel and take a neg for not following his tos. Maybe I should be nicer. We were all new once....Nah. Some people just have to learn the hard way.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 16, 2003 11:27:08 AM new
fleecies: Given the rampant misinformation you've been handed in this thread (aside from the nonsense), you may want to be a bit more cautious. The guy made a mistake. You never make mistakes?
sanmar: You're wrong. We use a PayPal personal account for our business. There are no fees for receiving instant transfers or eChecks. We do not accept credit card-funded payments. Every day some yoyo can't figure this out and tries it anyway.
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fleecies
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posted on January 16, 2003 03:02:55 PM new
Oh, sure I make mistakes, but I also own my mistakes and take responsibility for them. If I goof on my tos and it costs me a fee, so be it. If the guy is going to post on his auctions that he will accept credit cards via paypal, then he needs to follow his own tos. He had several days to revise his auction to remove that part, or read paypal's tos to find out what the fees would be, etc. He wasn't vigilant about following up on that. Hopefully he will own up to the mistake and learn from it.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 16, 2003 03:07:51 PM new
Well, possibly he will own up to his mistake.
However, forcing him to convert his Personal account to a Premier account seems like pretty stiff punishment to me. He will have to pay a fee on every payment he gets, even instant transfers from other peoples' PP accounts. (Those are currently free to him.)
Perhaps you could offer a compromise that won't cost him as much money?
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