[AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA

Louis louis at kellnet.com
Fri Aug 22 05:15:02 PDT 2008


I know there is the classified section on the website but, there is also an
auction site.  http://www.oldironauction.com/ This is the link to Spencer's
auction site.

Lou

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[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Bruce Mahr
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:16 AM
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Louis: Thanks for the reminder. It's beeen too long since I've been to the 
home page that I forgot about the classifieds there.

Bruce Mahr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis" <louis at kellnet.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA


> Let's remember that Spencer started an online auction service that is 
> related to ATIS.  If people are thinking about moving away from EBay, 
> I think Spencer deserves a shot at our business.  He has done a lot 
> for us over the years.
>
> Lou
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf 
> Of Dave Mayfield
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:04 AM
> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
> Subject: Re: [AJD] eBay forbidding paper payment in USA
>
>
> guys here where I live in Moline, Illinois the local newspaper owns an 
> online business and they have a auction site and FREE on online 
> listings much like ebay, but they have very few rules. It's been 
> around for a longtime now and I have used it many times. Check it out. 
> http://qconlineauction.com/
>
> Dave w9wrl
>
> Richard E. Garrett wrote:
>> 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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