[AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA

[Richard E. Garrett]

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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