[geeks] PayPal alternative offering $25 free cash

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed May 14 14:12:49 CDT 2008


Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On May 14, 2008, at 09:47 , Chad McAuley wrote:
>> I haven't tried it out yet, but I know a lot of people on the various 
>> buy/sell/trade/deals forums I occasionally read have been going nuts 
>> about this for a while.  Looking back through my list archive, I also 
>> see that I mentioned it [0] in the UnPaypal thread back in February.  :)
> 
> The only downside is that a lot of people won't deal with you if you use 
> something besides Paypal.
> 
> I put about 10 things up for sale earlier this year and none sold.
> 
> I re-listed with Paypal support and 8 of them sold.
> 
> Kinda sucks.

Yeah, but that's not a problem for folks like us shipping hardware back 
and forth without eBay involved, is it?  :)


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