[Milsurplus] eBay does it

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I really don't see what the big deal is.  I'm aware that eBay doesn't care 
whether we small sellers stay or go (the current CEO called us "noise").  They 
don't care whether military radio parts or vintage clothing get listed or not.  
But whether you have a PayPal account or not, 99% of you have credit cards 
and use them regularly.  Probably half of the 1% who don't are on the FBI's Most 
Wanted list.

Frankly, I'm not totally unhappy to see checks and MO's go away.  We've 
always accepted them.  But given the inefficency of the average buyer about getting 
it in the mail and the steadily increasing inefficiency of USPS First Class 
Mail (their claimed transit time is total BS), the average time between end of 
auction and receipt of a check or MO to pay for it is about 14 days domestic 
and 17 days international.  So we accept them sorta reluctantly.   Plus about 
50% of our unpaid auctions are with buyers who said (sometimes several times) 
that they were sending a check or MO but never did.

But boycott to your heart's content.  The only people you are going to hurt 
are small sellers like us.


> 
> To %^%$*& w/petitions. "Express yourself" w/your wallets.
>   
>  The Password Is: "Boycott"!
> 

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