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Re: Best Seller Protection = ParcelPro and Bank Wire

Ebay must do a certain amount of policing of the auctions. I recently listed an where I stated that Paypal payments were accepted, but only if 2% of the selling price is added to offset the paypal fee. My auction was canceled by EBAY admin and I received a form email stating that I cannot pass along the expense to the buyer. They ("PayBay") don't want to "....discourage the use of paypal as a means for buyers to conveniently pay for items.".

Lyle

:
: all this is excellent advice, and the hazards of the new
: EBay-PayPal combination are very real, for the Sellers.

: my proposed solution might be three-fold:
: if you need some "advertising" (i.e., beyond the
: TimeZone / Chronocentric type of listing), then list on ebay,
: with a crazy high reserve . . . pay the listing fee, as a
: reasonable price for global advertising . . . hope that your
: reserve is not met

: in the ebay listing, state that you will accept PayPal for a
: mandatory $100 deposit, with the balance to be paid by bank wire
: . . . this may violate the listing rules, but do they really
: patrol this? I understand that this is how people sell cars and
: high-dollar items (to avoid the PayPal fees)

: because the reserve is set so high, you can hope the item does not
: sell

: if it doesn't sell via the ebay auction, then you can do a
: side-deal with the high bidder

: accept payment only by bank wire

: ship by the fastest express level of UPS or FedEx, with your own
: insurance on the shipment . . . ParcelPro, for example, which
: specifically covers watches and jewelry

:
: I have never used this exact approach, but would be interested to
: learn whether others believe that there would be risks /
: exposures, for the seller.

: One thing this thread makes clear, there are huge risks in the
: current EBay / PayPal regime. So who can write the software for
: our newest site, "ChronoAuctions"?

: Jeff

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