I'm not sure if W6WRT is referring to me or not since I wasn't the only
one to reply negatively, but Bill is of the opinion that the PayPal
"friends and family" provision applies to any and all private
transactions (such as those between members of this list) and that the
fee only applies to transactions with "businesses". I believe that to
be totally erroneous. PayPal has always been a generalized funds
transfer service between members of a mass market ... it even got its
start handling transactions between totally private individuals on eBay,
for which it definitely expected to collect fees. Trying to avoid those
fees by claiming friends/family status between otherwise total strangers
does not fly ethically.
Certainly I could have expressed my disagreement in a much less
confrontational manner, but my objection to W6WRT's suggestion still stands.
Dave AB7E
On 2/18/2014 1:13 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
It seems that one person was offended by my post on how to avoid
PayPal fees, calling it off topic, cheating and other things.
My post was in response to an earlier post advertising something for
sale and telling people to add PayPal fees. I was simply pointing out
that there is a way to avoid PayPal fees which is right in their
policy and is not cheating in any way. In that context I think it was
indeed on topic.
Just trying to help. Not meaning to offend anybody.
73, Bill W6WRT
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