[Elecraft] PayPal fees

[David Gilbert]

I'm not sure if W6WRT is referring to me or not since I wasn't the only 
one to reply negatively, but Bill is of the opinion that the PayPal 
"friends and family" provision applies to any and all private 
transactions (such as those between members of this list) and that the 
fee only applies to transactions with "businesses".  I believe that to 
be totally erroneous.  PayPal has always been a generalized funds 
transfer service between members of a mass market ... it even got its 
start handling transactions between totally private individuals on eBay, 
for which it definitely expected to collect fees.  Trying to avoid those 
fees by claiming friends/family status between otherwise total strangers 
does not fly ethically.

Certainly I could have expressed my disagreement in a much  less 
confrontational manner, but my objection to W6WRT's suggestion still stands.

Dave   AB7E



On 2/18/2014 1:13 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> It seems that one person was offended by my post  on how to avoid 
> PayPal fees, calling it off topic, cheating and other things.
>
> My post was in response to an earlier post advertising something for 
> sale and telling people to add PayPal fees. I was simply pointing out 
> that there is a way to avoid PayPal fees which is right in their 
> policy and is not cheating in any way. In that context I think it was 
> indeed on topic.
>
> Just trying to help. Not meaning to offend anybody.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>
>
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