[AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA

Richard E. Garrett rgarrett at evansville.net
Thu Aug 21 13:52:01 PDT 2008


I have looked at craigslist a couple of times, but wasn't too
impressed. Maybe I need to look again. I like the old memorabilia and
advertising that I find on ebay. I didn't see that on craigslist, but
I don't see as much on ebay as I use to either.





On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Kreig wrote...

>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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