Don't use "BidPay"!!!!

At 09:23 AM 9/21/05 -0500, Gil wrote: Here are a couple. I strongly suggest that anyone that buys or sells over the net read them. <http://www.paypalwarning.com/> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/02/anyone_ever_managed_to_claim/> locking an I've got news for you, they will freeze payments even with NO complaints! A friend of mine's brother sold a laptop on E-bay for $800. He recieved payment via PP and shipped the laptop. The buyer confirmed that he recieved it and that he was satisfied with it. Months later E-bay pulled $800 from the seller's account for the transaction with no explaination. The seller checked with the buyer and the buyer was still satisfied with the transaction and said that he hadn't made any complaint to PP. He even wrote a letter to that affect to both PP and the seller but PP still refuses to return the sellers money or give any explaination of my they pulled it. The last time that I talked to my friend it had been going on for 8 months with no end in sight. A word to the wise; PP is not a bank and is therefore not regulated. They can do anything they want and you have NO recourse. I frequently sell stuff on E-bay and I have a LOT of people that want me to take PP but I absolutely refuse to!!!! I've used BidPay as a seller and had no problems with it. Do you REALLY expect them to be any better after the Ebay take over? E-bay has a long history of high handness and raising rates simply because they can. Ebay is a PRIVATE company and is answerable to no one so don't expect fairness from them. Joe