At 04:24 PM 2/22/06 -0500, you wrote:
The moment
anyone wants to deal outside of Ebay and wants Western Union,
simply forward the email to Ebay and report them, the only reason any
seller wants to do this is:
Likewise, buyers that want to use Western Union, typically from overseas,
are also to be avoided. They may be honest, but somehow something WILL go
wrong.
That's funny. I regularly get payments via WU and I've NEVER had a
problem. I know E-bay/PayPal likes to insist that WU and all other forms
of payment are dangerous but that's only because they're trying to dominate
the market. I don't know of ANY actual problems with WU and I sure can't
say that about PayPal!
Joe
In my early days as a seller, four times out of four were complete
disasters. Now, when a buyer wires money, I simply
refuse it.
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org