 | | PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Jon Kozan
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| | | (This may be my most valuable post yet) Some of you are thinking about or experiencing PAYPAL (PP) fees. I've reviewed their Terms of Use (TOU) and come up with a potential work-around. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Background: PP limits (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Rose Regner
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| | | | | (...) sends (...) We have already done this. The problem we have had with Ebay sales is that people send the money before contacting us and they have sent the money to the Premier account and thus incurred charges to us. We have come up with a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Jon Kozan
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| | | | | | (...) Good suggestion - I'm already shielded on Ebay due to email forwarding of my EBay email address (my EBay address is a forwarding spot only). (...) Yes, it counts as a Bank transfer - a transfer from your funds - not a CC payment. As far as (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Ran Talbott
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| | | | | (...) Not so strange: 1. Paypal has to pay the credit card discount, regardless. 2. They make money off the "float" (money that people leave in their Paypal accounts). So: 1. They encourage people to pay with money they didn't "pay a premium" for. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Jon Kozan
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| | | | | | | (...) I don't contest anything that you said, I agree with it all. The 'strange' thing was the part that you snipped off. What's strange is that they leave this incongruous gap in their terms that allows me to make the proposal that I did - and that (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) This despite BillPoint being built into the listing page... First mover advantage strikes again. PayPal has left everyone else in the dust. eBay would better have bought PayPal. It's eerie how similar the complaints about eBay of a year or two (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Jeff Shiner
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| | | | | | (...) I'm not so sure I would agree. I would think that eBay would be happy to get rid of BillPoint rather than assuming ownership of PayPal. I suspect that eBay thought (correctly so in my opinion) that more people would bid, and bid higher if they (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | RE: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Tom Heidemann
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| | | | well you aren't supposed to have more than one account... :( -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Jon Kozan Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 1:35 PM To: (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Jon Kozan said: (...) One of these two statements appears to be incorrect. Even given that we have examples of people who have two, I have no way of knowing which one. ++Lar (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: PAYPAL Work-Around (untested) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Jon Kozan said: (...) One of these two statements appears to be incorrect. Even given that we have examples of people who have two, I have no way of knowing which one. ++Lar (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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