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

[J Forster]

Agreed, IF that's the end of it.

However, I've been told of a way to trap deer. First you build a fence
along one edge of a field where they go and let them get used to it.
Then another fence. Then another. Finally a fourth with a gate. when
they are inside, you just close the gate.

It's the salami principle. You loose rights a slice at a time.

Best,
-John



WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>  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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