Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Also, they forced me to add a checking account. I still don't know why and I'm not sure if they are charging me anything for it. Can they charge something to my card without my authorization? The one thing I do know is that lots of state agencies and the FTC are looking into their practices. I think one state has banned them and others including New York are thinking about it. It certainly is a convenient service though. I hope they look into Ebay as well. 2 percent of the auction winnings is highway robbery considering that they expend at most, pennies on each auction and it's a fixed sum to boot. Javier Derek Zeanah wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAjyQsP8ACgkQgFulSVO/UBr81gCaAlIC5wPEUa8fCf+JpmThAPjx > aaEAn3B+cbYN02dxS3dbS3PzN0r78nfS > =VJkk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html