[Milsurplus] eBay does it

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Personally, I can't get too choked up about this.  We've always accepted 
checks and money orders (and for that matter currency after a few back and forths 
telling the prospective buyer that if the payment never arrived they would 
play Hell trying to blame us for it).  And I personally hate encountering a 
seller who won't take some form of electronic payment.  Writing a check, addressing 
an envelope and mailing it all take time which is in chronically short supply 
here.  And it would have to be a damned rare part that I had been looking for 
years to locate before I would spend an hour and a half driving to the PO to 
buy an MO to pay for.  So basically I only object to eBay doing this because 
some of Susie's customers aren't too smart and haven't been able to maintain a 
secure PayPal or credit card account.

But realistically, if we get six MO's a month it's a bumper crop.  And 
invariably, thanks to the poor reliability of First Class Mail these days (which 
should be renamed as Last Class Mail), at least one will take two weeks to 
arrive.  So we waste a lot of time asking the buyer whether they've actually sent 
payment.  And waiting for a response which we seldom get thanks to virulent spam 
blockers.  Which is another subject entirely.

In a message dated 8/26/2008 11:52:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mcenfalz at humboldt1.com writes: 
> Bruce WA8TNC said:
>   
>  ""does NOT carry cash...".  While, I guess none of them:
> 
> Drive on a highway or bridge where you have to pay a toll.
> Park in a parking lot or garage where you have to pay.
> Use a parking meter.
> Buy anything from a vending machine.
> Buy anything at a garage sale, flea market, rummage sale.
> Etc."
>   
>  I was in downtown Seattle recently and they have parking meters that take 
> ATM cards.
>   
>  Was it Bennie Maupin, a jazz sax player that had a song: "Watch your money 
> go"?
>   
>  
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480   
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