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Re: Practicality of X.com "auciton" CC payments for "straight sales"...?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:52:49 GMT
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I am now taking PayPal and X payments for the fuelpumps I sell for our car club,
so that people can use CCs. It works well.
Chris Busse wrote:
> Has anyone considered using X.com's increasingly popular auction payment by
> credit card service for straight sales of items from their websites? As an
> example: If I put up a website listing for sale certain items, and had a
> login or linking process that allowed a buyer to reserve an item for purchase,
> and in doing so either registered that item in an admin queue or list, or sent
> me a notifying email, and then I checked that list daily and sent the people
> with item reservations a "request for auction payment" from X.com ... would
> that be a practical system? It's obviously not as robust as having a bank
> Merchant Account and processing your own transactions, but it would seem like
> it would work for short term or sporadic selling situations.
>
> Also, incase anyone was wondering, the X.com auction payment terms of use [
> http://www.x.com/auction_terms.htm ] do not actually say that their system
> must be used for auctions, an "auction" payment service is just how they
> describe it.
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> Any thoughts on this? Has anyone had luck using X.com for their auction
> payments? The other deterrant I see is that it appears that buyers must open
> X.com accounts to pay by credit card ... anyone know if this is true?
>
> Thanks!
> Chris Busse
> cbusse@infi.net
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