Jim Davidson wrote:
Tell anyone else you know who would be interested in buying
these items with e-gold. I'm not doing this entirely for my
own financial gain.
I must say that the GoldBarter.com auction site exists
entirely for financial gain. It is not only okay, but
preferred that people place items for auction there for
the purpose of financial gain.
Well I didn't say it wasn't in part for financial gain, or even
primarily so I'm just giving people small break. View it as a
selfish act of cooperation if you like. If we all work together to make
it easier to use alternatives to fiat currency, we all have something to
gain. I certainly would not be disappointed if one of my buyers
remembered and gave me a discount off the normal dollar rate for
something they were selling in the future.
giving these kinds of discounts, but I'm doing this to
encourage alternatives to government-issued currency.
I would probably save money by not accepting e-gold or
E-gold offers a pretty compelling argument, on their web
site, that e-gold is better for merchants than credit cards.
Jim Ray? What's that link again?
Also, I think e-gold is much better than the typical eBay
alternative, PayPal which sucks so badly people make
web sites about how badly it sucks. I seem to recall
http://www.paypalwarning.com/
among others. PayPal has been very bad for several merchants
I know.
If you already have e-gold, it's a very fast of paying, and it's
probably the fastest way regardless internationally. The only problem
is that if you haven't already bought some, it costs a premium to get it
fast by credit card, and my buyers could already pay me as convieniently
by money order, perhaps more convieniently, than they could by buying
e-gold by money order at low rates and then making a transfer to me
And they could already do that even before I started accepting Paypal.
The only reason I still accept Paypal after all their abominable changes
to the User Agreement is because the manufacturer agreed to take the
payments in her account, bearing all the risk. I don't think it's wise
for her, but if she's willing to do that, it's fine with me. I still
get paid my comissions for selling stuff.
Fairy wing sales are on what I would say is the extreme low-risk end of
chargebacks (that is, people with stolen credit cards tend not to buy
them, and the buyers tend to be fairly honest), but I still won't take
Paypal myself. If Paypal allowed surcharges, I might consider
implementing one to compensate for the risk. I tried giving a discount
for every other payment method for a while and raising my prices
instead, but that increased the eBay fees I ended up paying. I'm still
not sure that was really worth it -- Most buyers would still pay by
money order if they didn't have the choice of Paypal, and I don't offer
guaranteed shipping times anyway, so they're willing to wait.
I think the main obstacle to getting people to buy things with e-gold
directly on more of an impulse-type basis is the difficulty in funding
an account rapidly. They just seem to have too short of an attention
span, even when I offer discounts twice what I did in those eBay
auctions Being able to walk into a bank, deposit cash, and get
e-gold the same day, as is increasingly possible is good, but what
people really need to be able to do is buy it online by something like
ATM -- something a little bit more secure and less fraud-prone than
credit cards, so that the rates aren't so high.
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