right i recently sold some bits on ebay(quite a bit) and during that time i had an email regarding paypal fees as i dont really like accepted paypal but put it as payment option, a guy said i am not allowed to charge the 4% that paypal charges and he reckoned thay have stopped charging altogether.

now i will always charge people if they choose to use paypal as why should i swallow up the charges , i already pay ebay for the things i sell, turning selling into a complete rip off!!

so what do people do on here , do you charge on dont you??

 

actually the bloke is partly right, you are now not allowed to charge for paypal, it is against ebay rules, however paypal still charge you!!!

i just swallow the costs as its only actually about 3% and i am normally up on the postage anyway!!!!

HTH

Pugo

 

i usually say the postage covers all costs

 

as pugo says, ebay rules are that you can't add paypal charges (although plenty still do..), but no reason not to 'adjust' postage accordingly then everyone's happy

 

some people get upset though

 

i even get emails having a pop about postage charges as well , people dont realise that its postage and PACKING!!!

yes i realise that ebay tried to stop the charging a while ago , but 99% of people will pay the charges , if you add it onto the postage then people will tend not to buy because the cost is to high to post

if i swallowed the charges in the last couple of weeks i would be well out of pocket, i think this is a very bad move on ebay's part

 

You do not have to accept payments by paypal, just specify cash /pos / bankers draft / cheques and state " goods dispatched after funds cleared ".

 

so don't accept payment by paypal then..

 

thats what in doing from now on, just asking peoples opinions.

mr james raby makes his very clear on all his ebay auctions

 

why do ebay put off sellers from useing paypal??its so much easier.i dont like paying any other way i would be happy paying 4%

 

Sellers do not like paypal as it costs them money its that simple ( less profit ), for people like me who use ebay to sell unwanted items using paypal is easier.

 

a company has to pay there bank to be able to accept credit cards

they will adjust there prices acordingly

as said above paypal is utter shite when you get a problem

i use nochex or good old cheque / bank transfer

 

if you have a personal paypal account (significantly you can't then accept payment to it by credit/debit card) you don't pay anything...

 

DONT FOOKIN BOTHER PAYPAL I THOUGHT ONCE WAS GREAT

BUT IVE BEEN CONNED

sold some items latley and buyers claimed never recieved, damaged etc, they make a little complaint to paypal that takes two mins and they got there fookin money back!!!!!

so im in debt with paypal and lost two 100 quid items

paypal basically gave me 3 choices

REFUND
PROVIDE TRACKING INFO
and somin else silly

basically i was fooked as threw the postal reciepts away

paypal can go fuck themselfs for the money im fookin sure they chaps recieved the items and ive never rippped anyone off on ebay


basically there was fook all i could do

DO NOT BOTHER WITH PAYPAL

it may all go smoothly for a few months then bang ya loose a few hundred of ya hard earned notes

 

I don't charge, but then again i don't accept paypal via credit card on via bank account (as i have a personal account and don't wanna piss around with the fees)

If someone wants to pay me paypal via creditcard tough shit