[geeks] I'd forgotten how much I dislike PayPal

[Ido Dubrawsky]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:20:33PM -0600, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:02:05 -0500
> From: Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] I'd forgotten how much I dislike PayPal
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> On 1/24/06, Ido Dubrawsky <idubraws at dubrawsky.org> wrote:
> > My wife and I just sold this French language course for kids called
> > Muzzy on ePay and it went for $81.  Between listing fees, commission
> > and PayPal charges we'll get about $70.00 out of the whole thing.  I'd
> > forgotten how much I dislike ePay/PayPal.  The fees have gotten more
> > exorbitant over the past year.
> 
> Did your kids pick up much french with it?
> 
Nope...didn't seem too interested in it...other than as a cartoon.   But in all
fairness we really didn't try hard with them.
>
> > Oh well...guess I'll just switch over to Craig's List from now on.
> 
> I had picked up a copy of that course with the audio tapes, video
> tapes, books for $1.99 locally... I did pay $6.99 for the Spanish
> course :) So it looks like the bidding frenzy of ebay did bring a
> reasonable amount. What was the original list price on this?
> 
Something around $150 or so is what I recall.  It was NOT cheap.

Ido
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