[rescue] IRIS Crimson for Sale on eBay

[Thomas Gallaway]

Yeah and then you have stuff happening like to me with paypal that
the guy cancels his credit card 5 month later and paypal reverses
the funds and my goods are gone too.


On Dec 12, 2003, at 9:19 AM, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:19:00 +0100
> Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
>
>>
>>   Just a question: Is it normal for Ebay US that you have to pay with
>>   paypal even if you pick up the stuff personally? On previous
>>   auctions tons of months ago I've only seen the request that
>>   arrangements for pickup must be done within x days.
>>
>
> No, but some (most) do it because of fraud with money orders and
> personal checks.  The last thing a seller wants is to watch their
> merchandise drive off and then watch the check bounce a week later.
> Paypal isn't fool-proof, but it's better than taking unverifiable 
> funds.
> Ye
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