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Mark Anderson wrote:

> On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:54:45 -0700, SMS wrote:
> 
>> What's amazing is that there are non-sellers dumb enough to link their
>> checking account to their PayPal account.
> 
> After a certain amount of transactions paypal requires that you link to a 
> checking account instead of a credit card.  

What kind of numbers are you talking about here?  I was under the impression
that the individual seller determined the payment method.  I've got CCs linked
to both ebay and google checkout and have had no problems with either.

> I ran up against this on one 
> of my last ebay transactions a bunch of years ago.  Paypal refused the 
> transaction so I ended up paying the old fashioned way -- by money order.

I'd just cancel the order.  Money orders generally cost more than I'm willing
to pay.  And if you really want to get a nasty shock, find out how much it
costs to wire money to somebody with Western Union.  Um, WU still exists, right?

> Then it was fuck paypal and fuck ebay for pretty much requiring paypal for 
> every auction.  There are plenty of ways to get stuff off the Internet 
> other than ebay and most of the stuff listed on ebay is overpriced crap 
> bid up by morons who don't know what things cost in the real world.

I generally use the 'buy now' option -- too much trouble to actually bid on
things.  The only thing I've ever bid on was a UV filter for my Nikon CP800 --
the guy had a lot of them and I could wait until the "auction" was over if I
didn't get one.  Turns out I got it for LOTS less then the 'buy now' price.  I
still wonder how a furniture store ended up with a pile of low-demand UV filters...

> Who was it who said "No one ever went broke underestimating the 
> intelligence of the American people?"  Ebay and paypal are perfect 
> successful examples of that phenomenon!

Sorry you've had so much trouble.  I've found a lot of "ebay stores" who have
excellent prices on electronic stuff -- mostly small stuff that costs $2 with
them or $15 at Best Buy etc. Kind of like the old days when guys sold software
out of their living rooms...

There's a guy who sells Chinese violins and recorders REALLY cheap.  He's about
10 miles away, and I'd like to go and see samples if possible. I emailed him,
but no result.  I still regret turning down the REAL WOOD tenor recorder for
$15 40 years ago :-(

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