How To Get Around eBay's New Paperless Payments Policy.

What's really pathetic is that most of the people going to "tea bagging" rallies, reading Ayn Ranty screeds, buying into total laissez faire capitalism, are not the real beneficiaries of the policies they espouse, other than the psychic benefits they must get from associating themselves with the rich and obnoxious.

I heard John Grisham (on Bill Moyers' Journal, I think it was) relate something his father said to him about politics in the South, to the effect that there were a lot of people who eat poor but vote rich. You have to admire, in a perverse sort of way, the ability of the wealthy elites and their religious and pseudo-populist allies/employees, to get people to betray their own interests. With the boogeymen of "socialism" and "the devil" and the dirty pleasures of racism, nativism and militarism, they sure have folks running scared witless.

Alas, since I've seen some few "Obama's a Muslim" and "Obama's not a US citizen" signs being waved at these tea bagging parties, I have to assume that quite a few of those folks are not very tightly bolted to the floor.

The American far right seems to be in shock over having lost the last elections, and somehow think that if they repeat the same lies over and over again, and make it louder each time, something will somehow change.

(Shakes head and walks off muttering...)

~Pete

Found today in NG&SLG another auction site:

Well, it worked for Adolf . . .

Refusal to accept US currency in the US is illegal.

I thought you needed a PayPal account to even list??????????

A seller needs an account. A buyer doesn't.

As a business owner I am allowed to decide what form of payment I accept, who I service and when I may stop serving my clients.

Okay, that answers *that* question: you really *don't* understand.

(A) You are not eBay, nor do you own PayPal.

(B) If you live in the US, own a business, and own a bank as well, you may *not* require that all of your business clients deal *only* with that bank and that they must pay you a fee for doing so. It's called "restraint of trade", and it's a serious Federal no-no.

(C) In the unlikely happenstance that you ever get big enough to actually own both a multi-million dollar business *and* a bank, and you try to require the above from your customers, you will one day awake to find yourself doing time at a Federal rock-hocky farm, and you will not be a happy camper.

(D) I owned and ran a succesful retail business for 18 years, and unlike you I retained a business lawyer who carefully explained to me exactly what I could -and could *not*- do if I wanted to remain on good terms with the authorities. It was well worth the expense.

(E) I suggest you do the same.

Luckily I am not as unfortunate as you and do not now or ever want to lower my standards and live in the US.

In every country in the world you must accept cash as a form of payment. You can of course decide not to accept credit cards, but for most businesses that would be a bad decision. (Example: about 20 years ago, a model retailer in Austria lost about $500 worth of my business because he did not accept credit cards. The clerk told me it cost too much to do so. A few years later when I visited again, I noticed he accepted credit cards.)

And in any community, if you aren't careful about whom, why, when and how you refuse service, customers will stay away. That's what happened when a local car dealership changed hands, and it service policies were changed by the new owner. The dealership closed within six months.

Cheers,

wolf k.

Glad you admitted it, and thankful you kept the drivel to one sentence. Attaboy.

How cute. He thinks he wins something by flinging random s*it against the wall in the hope that something will stick.

Shrug.

Ebay sells nothing except advertising. The actual transaction occurs between the seller and buyer. The SELLER has the right to determine which forms of electronic payments, if any, he or she will accept.