Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Jeff Potokar
western union is very often used to scam people out of their money... so i can see why ebay may have decided against that form of payment.. makes total sense to me. jeff On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to bring to the attention of the sellers on MoPo, the

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
I dont think fleaBay will be happy until we can only use Paypal to buy our groceries, and that fleaBay will be the only place to buy those At 10:19 PM 3/28/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to bring to the attention of the sellers on MoPo, the latest eBay action I encountered. My

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Patrick Michael Tupy
But if that is the case, using the same logic, far more scams are done these days with fraudulent Money Orders (See Craigslist for scam alerts). So that leaves PayPal. And if you feel safe using them, great. Unfortunately I cannot share that naivete due to what happened to me when I

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay---anyone smell a law-suit?

2008-03-29 Thread rodxmorgan
Sounds like a case of: ---defamation of character ---restraint of trade ---et al between Western Union (no small potatoes when it comes to taking on other large corporations) and Screw-Bay Special deal

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Helmut Hamm
Making Paypal the only option is apparently the idea. I've been starting to list some stuff on eBay again this week (user-id: filmposter.net). When starting to prepare my auctions, I was looking for something in the help section of eBay Germany, they announce an upcoming 'policy change':

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Patrick Michael Tupy
And just to make matters more clearly muddy regarding PayPal, I offer this: http://www.paypalwarning.com On Mar 29, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Helmut Hamm wrote: Making Paypal the only option is apparently the idea. I've been starting to list some stuff on eBay again this week (user- id:

Re: [MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-29 Thread Bruce Hershenson
The only thing that surprises me about this is that Marty is just now finding out. eBay banned Western Union two years ago. But they only ended auctions that mention it if they were reported to them. Now they are adding filters that stop people from listing items in ways they don't allow. Helmut

[MOPO] Omnipotent eBay

2008-03-28 Thread OneSheet
I wanted to bring to the attention of the sellers on MoPo, the latest eBay action I encountered. My last group of 74 listings, were ready to post, and as I tried to list them, I kept getting blocked by eBay. The reason? My PAYMENT DETAILS included acceptance of PayPal, personal checks,