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dsquire:

--- Quote from: Darren on September 21, 2009, 08:31:09 AM ---No good,



Imagine, if just one million people had their funds taken from their accounts and held for the obligatory 30 days before a resolution is made. How much of that could be used by PayPal to be re-invested elsewhere to make further profits.

Maybe Paypal actually want disputes.......would be a good strategy business wise. It's nothing more than theft.....but who cares.....





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Darren

I think you may have just hit the nail on the head. When they take money from your account, how many people really follow up and take them to task for it until they get their money back. Sure, they yell and scream and send an email or 2. After a while they realize that they are going to have to spend thousands of $$$ to get their $100.00 back so they take the cheap way out and just chalk it up to experience. What it will probably take is a class action suit to make any progress against them.

The money they make off 1 transaction may only be a dollar or so but multiplied by a million or so now becomes an sizeable amount. The fact that very few people will do anything to stop them makes this a numbers game for them. If they see somebody closing in they will just change the tune and do a different dance.

I have never used FleaBay and after reading some of the many horror stories by both buyers and sellers over the last couple years I can't see me using them in this lifetime.

I hope that you are able to get this resolved in your favour Darren, I'll be watching.

Cheers :beer:

Don

Bernd:

--- Quote from: Darren on September 21, 2009, 10:01:02 AM ---If my drivel only helps one person not to get ripped off then I will be a happy man.



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I'm saying don't use E-bay. And if you can get more people involved as you say the better. More people "NOT" spending their money on E-bay the better.

Bernd

bogstandard:
I must get involved here and give someone's view from another perspective. I don't know if I have been very fortunate, or very lucky, as I have dealt with ebay as a buyer for a few years, and have never suffered any bad experiences. The only hiccup was when someone sent me a batch of items and there was only half the quantity there (only cost a few squid). No reply from the seller, so I contacted PayPal, who sorted things with the seller, who then contacted me with an apology for not replying, told me to keep the items that were sent, and he also refunded my payment in full to my account.

I scan ebay every day, looking for those little items that I wouldn't be able to afford normally, and within a week or two of searching, I usually find what I want. I am a bit devious in that I use a last second snipe bidder, and I win a lot more than I lose.

I have noticed a great decline in private sales, and a large increase in shops, some using real underhand mailing costs to get the full retail price for the item.

But on the whole, I have never had any problems with sellers or PayPal.

I have never sold anything on ebay, so I can't comment on that part, as I normally give things away to the needy, rather than sell them.


Bogs

John Stevenson:
Is it possible to have a bank account that can't go over drawn, ie no money in it to cover - refuse payment not go over drawn ?

If so then use one of these accounts and just keep £20 in so Paypal get a valid account flag.

Failing that set a reasonable price and advertise at http://www.homeworkshop.org.uk

No fees for buyer or seller, no hidden costs at all.

John S. [ I use it all the while  :clap: ]

Darren:
John, put something up for sale on Ebay and I'll happily show you how it works....

Buyers have little to fear, unlike sellers.

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