[Milsurplus] eBay does it

Tue Aug 26 19:51:16 EDT 2008

Hi Rod!!

    Ditto on the credit card transactions.  I cancelled my merchants 
credit card service when I sold my mobile tool service.  But since my 
wife's pet grooming salon is now at the house and is all but set up to 
go here, we're in process of restoring the credit card service.  You're 
right on the transaction fee, so the prices reflect it.  I predict that 
Wal-Mart/Sam's are going to get a FLOOD of people signing up for their 
card service, just to deal with E-Bay's/Paypal's Bovine Manure.  I will 
say this about the credit card service.  IF a buyer has any doubts about 
a person doing business (at least here in MI) with you, the business 
checking account and the VISA/MasterCard warrantee that's attached to 
the service usually gets me past the questions.  I WOULD MUCH rather 
deal with VISA, MasterCard, or American Express on a disputed purchase, 
than E-Bay.  Paypal shoots first and doesn't bother to ask any 
questions, or return your money without loads of the above-mentioned 
brown fecal matter.  VISA, MasterCard, AMEX and Discover can't tie up my 
whole checking account and Paypal somehow can manage to do just that.

Kim Herron  W8ZV
Golden Radio Service
Kenowa Tool Service.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Revcom" <revcom at wbsnet.org>
To: "Ben Dover" <quixote2 at ix.netcom.com>; "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>; 
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] eBay does it

> One can only say it is coming!  We run a business and take a multitude 
> of credit cards, including PayPal.  Local bank, and am sure others are 
> doing the same, is now issuing "traverler's cards".  These are plastic 
> traveler's check devices that are 'preloaded' at the bank and 
> processed just like any credit card.
>
> Now, big thing for us, we get "dinged" anywhere from 2.8-3.4 % on each 
> transaction, depending on the card issuer.  Bank says it is a sign of 
> the times and they predict they will NOT process paper checks in 5 
> years or less.  Of course there will always be CASH transactions but 
> they forsee no paper drafts for payment being accepted by anyplace 
> hardly.  They prefer ACH, automatic drafts, and everything electronic 
> transfers.  I don't like it particularly in that if we have a lot of 
> plastic transactions, it reduces our take by about 3%, that is an 
> automatic overhead you can't escape. Thinking about not taking them, 
> but banker says no.
>
> The younger generation is all for this, have a daughter, 20+ 
> generation, and she does NOT carry cash nor a checkbook.  And says 
> that none of her friends do either.  Sigh!  Long for $20 bills at 
> swapfests!!
>
> E Pay might be ahead of the curve on this. Of course they own PayPal, 
> financed by GE Money Bank.  As the ad says, "Whats in your wallet?".
>
> Rod
> K0EQH
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ben Dover" <quixote2 at ix.netcom.com>
> To: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; 
> <hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com>; <GenRad at yahoogroups.com>; 
> <AILtech at yahoogroups.com>; <armyradios at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] eBay does it
>
>
>> Yeah...  I saw this one come out late last week.
>>
>> The interesting part of it... they claim PayPal will make it easier 
>> and safer to deal?
>>
>> Since Friday I've been trying to pay for a purchase through PayPal, 
>> and after NUMEROUS attempts
>> (as of this morning, 15 tries) the system is refusing to pay the 
>> seller!
>>
>> So far I've got one PayPal person corresponding by E-mail, and spent 
>> a half hour with another
>> one on the phone...   SHE was called to explain two mysterious $1.00 
>> charges that appeared on
>> my account on Saturday!
>>
>> She found no plausable reason for the problem...   and begged off 
>> with "intermittent system
>> glitch that we're chasing down now. It should be resolved shortly".
>>
>> That was on Sunday.
>>
>> So far, on Tuesday, no resolution...   and they want to force 
>> EVERYBODY to give up the option of
>> paying by other means, and deal with this "Charlie Foxtrot" of a 
>> computer system???
>>
>> OMG...
>>
>>
>>
>> Mr. T., W9LBB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: J Forster <jfor at quik.com>
>>>Sent: Aug 25, 2008 10:45 PM
>>>To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com, 
>>>GenRad at yahoogroups.com, AILtech at yahoogroups.com, 
>>>armyradios at yahoogroups.com
>>>Subject: [Milsurplus] eBay does it
>>>
>>>http://pages.ebay.com/sell/August2008Update/Payments/
>>>
>>>-John
>>>
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