posted on December 18, 2003 01:36:54 PM new
Back in the "good" old days before eBay and PayPal were in bed together, back when eBay was trying to shove BillPoint down our throats, PayPal needed us sellers. They hung around these boards and tried to help us find our way through murky waters. In return we rejected eBay's BillPoint and PayPal became the online payment vehicle of choice. Those days are evidently over!
posted on December 18, 2003 01:51:17 PM new
Agreed! 100 percent!
In the last month Paypal has ripped me off for a total of $60.00.
First was a charge back that was over 3 months old. The item was shipped, tracking number confirmed delivery, customer acknowledged delivery and satisfaction of the item in an email to me. All this proof and Paypal still found it fit to refund their money!
The second instance was I purchased a ring off an ebay auction, paid via Paypal, Item was never sent, seller never replied to emails, then they get dropped by ebay and become unregistered, I request my money back from paypal, they tell me I need to ask ebay to resolve the problem!!!!!
I've had customers complaining about using paypal. I currently have two pending sales that are being held up because of Paypal problems. One guy calls Paypal, Paypain cause of the ache it is to deal with sometimes.
posted on December 18, 2003 03:59:10 PM new
Linda - just the time I bought those non-existent postcards. I still haven't seen any $ even though they found in my favor. I didn't dare do a credit card chargeback for fear of the reprisals. I heard a few months ago from a detective working on other fraud claims against the seller but still no $$! I lost $270! What burns me is that the other guy who filed a claim at the same time got paid the whole amount and I got zilch!
Personally I love the ease of PayPal transactions - I don't even mind paying the fee (which can amount to over 10% in low ticket transactions as you know) because they earn it.
I'm not happy about the recent threads I've read about chargebacks. Seems like they don't much care about sellers...and double whammy to sellers as buyers!
posted on December 18, 2003 05:55:58 PM new
I thought about you when I bid on 4,000 postcards and wound up winning for $1400.00. Sure hope they don't turn out to be nonexistent
Made me nervous, but I really need more inventory and the only alternative would be going to Tucson or back to Texas to postcard shows. I figured this would be the cheapest. Now, if I just get my postcards (crossing my fingers)
posted on December 19, 2003 10:35:44 PM newOk, so what is a good alternative?
As a seller, I love Paydirect from Yahoo. Problem is that PayPal monopolized the market so quickly, you will have a hard time getting any buyer to join.
posted on December 20, 2003 08:39:45 AM new
Hi neglus, I have been thinking the same thing, although I never have had a problem, but reading all the paypal threads, and recently some one queried where is "paypal Damon", the answer being now that paypal and ebay are together he is now on the ebay boards. there use to be a board here just for paypal, I checked it and the page is blank, just clicked on the last 20 days and that was blank also, felt there was no need to go past that. You think that paypal would assign someone else to read and answer us. Paypal Damon had some nice input and from what I read was able to get questions answered, problems solved and did lead most of the people in the right directions. There were some that felt their paypal problem was not corrected to their satisfaction, but you will always get that. So how about it Paypal don't we deserve some attention also.
reenie
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