I have never had a problem with PayPal as either a seller, or a buyer.
And by the way, if a seller is charging you extra to accept PayPal or a Credit card he is cheating you as it is against the law (not just the credit card company's or PayPal's rules).
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Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi there.
I have a question for you wise men and women of PDML.
I do not plan on selling things. It might be however that I would be buying some. You know, enablement and such...
Until now I've been using PayPal as a money transfer tool. You see, my first purchase was $70 or so ME Super from a fellow PDMLer who lives in Australia while I live in Israel. The cheapest way I could come up with locally of money transfer (Western Union, if I am not mistaken), would cost me $20 of fees. Bank money transfer would cost me $50 flat until some rather high sum... So I went PayPal road and it was $5 that I had to add to the price.
So to me PayPal is quite convenient and quite cheap. Of course, I wouldn't like my identity stolen and so on. As a non-USA citizen I would have very hard time trying to obtain a just treatment if G-d forbid such thing would have to be done.
What are the alternatives then?
You know, I can think only of one solution - to have a friend (possibly PDMLer) who would trust me enough to pay for my purchases with his/her money over there and have me return them the money, say, when we meet or by any other method convenient for both... But that would be a great chutzpah to ask anyone to do such a thing for me... Also it would mean I would have to have such a friend at least in three instances - one is USA or Canada, one in Europe, and one in OZ...
Thanks in advance.
Boris
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"You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway."
