[Milsurplus] EBay becomes your partner Let's go overmy figures

[Spike Dennis]

I was once a power seller on epay myself. It's been a year now sense I had anything on there. Just tired of getting ripped off then slighted in the FB by those doing the ripping. Combined with Escrw helping themselves to my bank account(twice) even though they had already been paid. I have many tons of things that I need to liquidate. What I don't sell here, or on QRZ, or QTH, or eHam, will need to go on Escrew. When I do, I'm going to offer a 6% discount to those who pay with a check or MO. You can't charge a fee per Escrew & Payf*&K rules to recover their fees, but there is nothing in the rules about offering a discount for not using them. & BTW, a personal check is SAFER than Payf*&K.

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----- Original Message ----
> From: "revcom at wbsnet.org" <revcom at wbsnet.org>
> To: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:36:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] EBay becomes your partner Let's go overmy figures
> 
> Bob, --- more not truely 'black or green' radios....
> 
> AMEN to that.  Don't forget the "debit cards"  they are treated like a
> standard VISA or M/C and the merchant gets 'dinged' for taking them too.
> 
> We take M/C Visa Amex Disc, etc and wow! the charges/commission that get
> deducted. Usually 3.2% plus. So the $160.00 or so net is about right on
> the net. Sometimes we have items that are sold at a very small margin, and
> if someone uses 'plastic' we actually loose money on the transaction,
> sorta sucks.
> 
> Life for merchant isn't always super rosey.
> 
> Oh, Paypal and Ebay are same person as I understand it.  I would much
> rather accept personal checks, 'if they are good' than anything else for
> purchases.
> 
> Rod
> K0EQH
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I know that this has nothing to do directly with green or black radios but
> > we just started setting up a regular merchant account.  If you think
> > PayPal
> > takes a big cut, you ought to have a go at dealing with Visa, MasterCard,
> > and Amex.  :-)  Plus the up-front setup fees.
> >
> > In a message dated 5/14/2009 9:56:00 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > radioman390 at cs.com writes:
> >> EBAY and PAYPAL both have their hands in your pockets.
> >>
> >> My last transaction was a sale for $164.65.?? PAYPAL took $5.07 or just
> >> over 3% to handle the cash payment from the buyer
> >> (As a Power Seller I get a slightly lower rate than others). This money
> >> is
> >> withheld from my PAYPAL account, so I really
> >> only net a bit under $160.00.
> >>
> >
> > Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
> > wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> > MVPA 9480
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