I wanted to take credit card payments for the FoxForward conference and PayPal certainly has low fees and easy setup. It worked great in most cases and most of the attendees took advantage of that payment option.
PayPal charged me 3% for each transaction even though they said it would be 2.5% if I jumped through all of their hoops. Which I did and it stayed 3%. One day, I received a registration from a gentleman from Nigeria who gave one name, paid with a credit card with a name of a Foxpro programmer who used to live in Washington state, and communicated with me using a third name. I was suspicious but the $400 was in my PayPal account. I emailed this person and asked them to verify their information. They verified their information by providing the same information as the registration. I'm still suspicious and emailed this gentleman asking some questions. His answers were very abrupt, he never provided any Foxpro or technology hints that he was a developer, and asked that I UPS or FedEx a letter to him confirming his registration so that he could take that to the US Embassy to get an exit visa. I told him that the only verification that I provided was a PDF version of the invoice but that I could call the US Embassy if he provided the contact information. He insisted that I send him a letter confirming registration. As a side note, each correspondence has varying qualities of English used. Some were excellent. Others were not. This led me to believe that I was communicating with multiple people via email. Anyway, we finally agreed that I would refund him his money minus the $50 processing fee per the original contract on registering. I didn't hear from him until I received a dispute notice on the charge. I provided PayPal the contract verbiage and a link to the contract showing what the processing fee was. After going around and around with PayPal on this, they decided to refund the man his $50 plus charge me a $10 dispute administration charge. Wha the !?!?! It's not worth my time to go after PayPal for the $10 but I was pretty livid. I figure that this guy (one of the many I was communicating with?) was trying to gain access into the US and then he would have disappeared. Basically, this guy cost me $10 plus tons of time! No good deed ... <g> Bottom line: I won't use PayPal again. Kevin Cully CULLY Technologies, LLC Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006! http://foxforward.net Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > I’m wondering, is this the best way since the amount they’re paying will > vary from job to job, and has anybody had any negative experiences with pay > pal, specifically with them keeping the money and not paying you ? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
