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gibbyx

gibbyx

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I've never used e-bay. If I try to "buy now" as a guest do I have to have a Pay Pal account or will my credit card alone be sufficient.

Thanks for any help you can provide and please excuse my ignorance.

Gibby
 
You need to be registered and link your credit card to a pay pal account, which will allow you to buy up to so many dollars worth on it. Then they will cut you off and want you to take their pay pal credit card. I'm not sure if it's changed or not since I've dealt with all their requirements. There's steps you can follow on the site and they will walk you through what you need to make purchases.
 
It does depend on the seller. Either way, you will pay through Paypal. But, if the seller permits, then you will be allowed to pay with your Visa or Master Card through PayPal without being a PayPal member yourself. Most sellers allow this because it's no different to them, the money just appears in their PayPal account directly.
 
In the description I have written that I accept money orders on something I sold. Paypal is really dominant in ebay. They make it so you have to use that venue for filling out a "selling an item" listing. However, I have seen and also use the description area that I accept money order as well. It is an end around. However, paypal is easier, I just like to not hinder sales if someone has some reservations about paypal. I use a master card that I only keep about 200 in. That way, I limit my liability. I have to say that in 5 yrs. I have had no issues with paypal screwing up, or screwing me in any way.
 
Thanks for all the help folks. Just tryin' to get "edumacated" and knew I could get straight answers here amongst my knife bretheren...sisters, too!

Thanks again,
Gibby
 
cj65 said:
In the description I have written that I accept money orders on something I sold. Paypal is really dominant in ebay. They make it so you have to use that venue for filling out a "selling an item" listing.
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PayPal is required of sellers on eBay now. To sell, you must be a PayPal member and must accept PayPal for payment. Including in your description that you will accept other payment methods risks having your auction pulled and even loosing your eBay account.

Sellers have the option of requiring that buyers be PayPal members.

I have a 100% success rate for sending such sellers a private message explaining to them that if I win, I will pay by Visa via Paypal and that they will receive their money via PayPal just the same. Requiring PayPal membership just reduces their bidder pool meaning that they will very likely receive less for their item. With this simple explaination, dozens of sellers have editted their auction to remove their PayPal membership requirement and dozens of seller have recieved higher winning bids because I was able to bid.

I, personally, will not be a PayPal membership because of PayPal's anti-knive policies. But, I will pay for auctions using Visa via Paypal. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to sell on eBay.

This is really all part of an evolution of eBay. eBay is now much less of the open, public market that it used to be. It is now just a way for dealers to hook up with buyers. The sellers on eBay are now all professional dealers. Individuals like me who used to sell one-up items are now gone from eBay.

I remember, for example, when I totalled me 1989 Olds Cutlass Supreme (a great car for a knife collector to own, a Cutlass Supreme... next to the Buick Le Saber, what other car could a knife collector own?). I had the service manual for it. What am to do with it now? I sold it on eBay. The buyer was an Oldsmobile collector who was delighted to fill a hole in his library and equally delighted that I threw in the key chain that came with the car. I was delighted to get a few bucks and that the manual was sent to someone who wanted it instead of the recycle bin. That's the sort of thing that used to happen on eBay. But, no more. Today, it's all dealers selling from stock.
 
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