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by kd3zx » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:01 pm
Ok guys, my final comments. I have no problem with someone in their ad including PayPal, or Postal MO, or whatever as payment. There is nothing wrong with that. My beef was, and still is, the ads stating, PayPal +3%, PayPal +4%, PayPal gift only, PayPal under personal tab money owed, etc, etc. All this is doing is blatantly stating, as a seller, "i am not going to pay the fees, if you use PayPal, even though as a seller, I am responsible for, according to PayPal policy, to pay the fees for this transaction. Plain and simple.
If this is discussed after the sale, directly with the buyer, on the phone, with email, or however, it is none of my business how you want to manipulate the system. I always calculate the PayPal fees, shipping, etc, into the price of the gear with a little room for negotiating. Makes it a heck of a lot easier. That's just the way I do things.
I've had hundreds of PayPal transactions, and only have had two incidents, one that involved idenity theft, and a stolen credit card, and the other was item not received. Both incidents were handled by PayPal, in a timely fashion, with full refunds.
This morning I've seen at least 12 ads posted, not just on QTH, that are practicing, the same BS that I mentioned. I as a buyer, will never buy from these guys that are too cheap to pay the fees that they are responsible for. It is not my fault they are not smart enough to just absorb, or pad their price a bit to cover their PayPal fees and or shipping, as a SELLER, and avoid posting all of these annoying PayPal demands.
I'm done, thanks for all of the comments.