[geeks] PayPal alternative offering $25 free cash

[Rick Hamell]

Nadine Miller wrote:

> I signed up a few weeks ago.  They are currently not offering funding 
> the account via credit cards, though, that is somewhere down the road. 
> Rumor has it that eBay will pull your listings if you mention them and 
> get caught, though I've not seen a definitive example of that, and RME 
> is not explicitly prohibited in the example services excluded in eBay 
> policies.

More then rumor. Ebay will pull any auction that advertises any online 
payment method other then Paypal. They use to allow Bidpay but that went 
under in December 2007. I tried to use Google Checkout once, but the 
auction was pulled pretty quickly. 
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m07/i06/s02 talks about that.

Also, what's REALLY annoying, is that if you put in the auction any 
where that you accept Paypal, you MUST also accept credit card 
transactions via Paypal. Which in turn means an upgrade to a Paypal 
business account, with the corresponding fees.

I put off doing that for a long time because Paypal was going to charge 
the business fees to ALL transactions not just credit card transactions. 
  But that luckily seems to no longer be the case.

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