Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE; Paypal
From: Derek Zeanah <derek@zeanah.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:17:35 -0500
References: <3C90145C.8060705@swbell.net> <000701c1cb0a$0a2a2450$0200a8c0@lightningpiv>

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On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote:
> Why does anyone use this company?

Because it's easy, because almost everyone has a PayPal account, and people 
are nervous about passing along credit card information to some random eBay 
seller to have processed another way.

I kind of like it -- someone says they want something, 5 minutes later I get 
an e-mail saying the money has been transferred, and we go from there.  My 
only risk is that the buyer will try and back out of the purchase after the 
equipment has shipped, but I send USPS with signature confirmation so the 
local postmaster would *love* to hear of someone commiting a fraud using the 
postal service...

I can't say I'm a big fan of PayPal.  I don't like paying 2.9% of payments in 
commission, but my Nova account isn't much better than that.  But in a lot of 
ways it's got advantages over requiring someone to go to the bank or post 
office to get a money order and then send the MO my way.

I'd like to see *good* alternatives, but until they show up I'll probably 
keep using Paypal.

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