[Milsurplus] Re: Step 2! Ebay now forces PayPal as a 'must be' for UK mir...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I think that's what I said (over multiple posts).  Nothing wrong with a 
vendor insisting that you ALLOW use of their entire system (they own PayPal so it's 
part of their system) if you are going to use their system.  But it is wrong 
for them to require that you use only their system if other options exist.  
Another good example would be if eBay were to insist that if you sold on eBay 
you had to only use UPS (currently by far the most expensive shipping method on 
the planet) for shipping.  Or only buy packaging supplies from one of their 
subsidiaries.

In a message dated 4/22/2008 9:06:58 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> I have no problem with sellers being required to accept PayPal. I strongly 
> object to PayPal being the one and ONLY means of payment. Basically, they are 
> saying if you don't satisfy our arbitrary, capricious, and totally one sided 
> requirements, you can't buy stuff. 
> 
> -John 
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> WA5CAB at cs.com wrote: 
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> >> You missed the point.  Besides which, aside from a complete SCR-399 (only 
>> two of which surfaced within the past year) there aren't any military sets 
>> worth buying that cost enough for the fee to matter anyway. And as far as 
>> another of your points goes, I have in fact ignored items I might otherwise 
>> have bought because the seller's only payment method was USPS Money Order. 
>> 
>> Besides, PayPal is far cheaper than a standard Merchant Account.  For two 
>> reasons - their discount rate is lower.  And they have no minimum monthly 
>> billing requirement. 
>> 
>> In a message dated 4/22/2008 6:55:39 PM Central Daylight Time, 
>> pdmtr at yahoo.com writes: 
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>> >>> Yes, yes... Seems that is not EXACTLY the same... at 
>>> least for now! However its just takes, one step at a 
>>> time, to finally bring you were you want to be!
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