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Re: Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
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lugnet.market.services
Date: 
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 04:13:52 GMT
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In lugnet.market.services, Larry Pieniazek writes:
  <snip>
> Instituting that fee is fraught with peril as it may run afoul of the "cannot
> surcharge for CC transactions" rule that both Visa and MC have, it has to be
> carefully structured so that it is not in and of itself a credit card fee.
> Probably an "administrative fee" or else a change in all other fees with a
> discount for bank orginiated PayPal or something. Either that or raise ALL
> fees so that I don't care about the haircut.

  <more snippage>

OK, I understand that when someone has a 'merchant account' (with the
corresponding merchant agreeement), but something about what you said here kept
bothering me. So I went back and read thru PayPal's TOS. I don't see anything in
there about not allowing a surcharge. Can anyone find it ?  Has PayPal
outsmarted the CC clearing houses and the major banks, or did they just miss
this.

Ray



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  Re: Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
 
(...) kept (...) anything in (...) miss (...) When you yourself have a merchant account and accept credit cards, it is againsts the terms of the agreement to pass the cost of the transaction on to the customer. Like saying product X is $10 if you (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)

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  Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
 
I think I am going to have to institute some factoring changes beyond the rebalancing I alluded to earlier. PayPal is very convenient. The upcoming changes in PayPal mean that they are essentially creating two classes of money. Unless I refuse to (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)

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