[AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA

[kreig]

Craigslist is a bazzzzilion times better than ebay.

Ebay is a good for a place to do research looking for almost anything. 
Craigslist is the place to buy and sell.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard E. Garrett" <rgarrett at evansville.net>
To: <b2 at chooka.net>
Cc: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA


> Are there any other good auction sites besides ebay?
> Richard
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bill Brueck wrote...
>
>>Well, they tried it on our Australian friends, now they are forcing it on
>>the US market as well.
>>
>>Effective some time in October eBay will no longer allow cash, checks, or
>>money orders for most categories of purchases unless it's a local pickup.
>>
>>http://pages.ebay.com/sell/August2008Update/Overview/
>>
>>I recall that in Australia the government stepped in and put a delay
> on this
>>deal until they sorted out if it was legal, maybe restraint of trade or
>>monopoly issues, I forget.  What has become of that over on your side
> of the
>>pond?  I wonder if a similar action will take place in the States?
>>
>>I expect this will result in "local pickup" deals where the seller
> will do
>>the local pickup and ship outside of eBay.
>>
>>When I buy and sell with the engine and tractor crowd, there are a
> lot who
>>don't use PayPal.  I just did a spot check of 100 recent sales and
> only 57
>>were settled via PayPal.
>>
>>Cripes, the Feds shut down my business when we couldn't shoulder the
>>$225,000 every year in attorney and accounting fees to keep us in
>>compliance.  (We took the business public just before the Enron deal.
> Talk
>>about bad timing.)  Now eBay wants to tell me who I can and can't
> sell to.  =
>>
>>
>>I don't like the direction this is heading...
>>
>>B=B2
>>
>>Bill Brueck
>>   Chatfield, Minnesota, USA
>>
>>Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>>
>>
>>
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