21 Sep
2005
21 Sep
'05
10:05 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Joe R. wrote:
At 09:23 AM 9/21/05 -0500, Gil wrote:
This site exists solely to scare people into subscribing to their merchant
services account. It's not a bad deal, but I question the tactics used to
sell their services.
BTW, their "limited time special" keeps getting renewed every day. So
it's not very limited.
I used BidPay once for an international order. It
was a big pain, IIRC.
I have never sold, so have no personal observation there, but if you Google
about it you find all kinds of horror stories about PayPal
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/> 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.
Has he ever heard of the "legal system"?
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