08-06-11, 10:58 PM | ||
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08-07-11, 12:22 AM | |
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Good point(s) fitbop. I never thought of it that way. The other option is to send money as payment owed under the personal tab. There is no protection with that but it does deal with the gift issue.
This topic is interesting as many sellers on a FB page I go to give the option to pay for the item as a gift when using paypal. I was never comfortable with the no protection aspect. Is there a problem with listing your price including the fees? Or price plus fees? I'm not running a business just selling items no longer needed. |
08-07-11, 04:02 AM | ||
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Whenever I've refunded postage using paypal I always add a little extra for fees. I figure the giver is already going out of their way to get that DVD to me, so they should at least get a full reimbursement for the postage! I have also paid a bit extra to cover fees when I bought a dvd listed on yayas, but this thread got me thinking: if everyone took paypal payments as payments, and not as gifts, everyone would add that little extra to their prices and nobody would feel like they need to pay more because their paypal account doesn't have the gift option or because they want the protection that paypal payments offers. On a different note: I think the community aspect of these boards can make us feel safer than we should. How many people have sent out an item before receiving payment? how many people fail to send out a message to let their trading partner know they shipped their side of the trade? A few months back I suggested having a feedback forum for traders but I was told that it had been suggested in the past and didn't work or something. There are people who show up out of the blue (they never post) and suggest a trade. I don't feel comfortable with that at all, but if they were regular traders and had good feedback, I'd be more open to trading with them. As it is, the only thing that makes me feel relatively safe is seeing that a person who is trading with me is also active on here. |
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08-07-11, 05:58 AM | ||
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08-07-11, 07:26 AM | ||
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08-07-11, 08:21 AM | ||
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I remember the person who offered me the first trade ran into a situation that kept her from posting her end of the trade for several days. When I contacted her and it took her a day or so to get back to me, I checked her profile and saw that she is an active member and hadn't been posting for a few days, so I guessed something had happened. My second trade took over a month to arrive. The trader is a very active member on here, so I doubted she'd arrange a trade and not follow through. She told me she had posted the DVD, I trusted her word. But once I was offered a trade by someone who has no posts to her name. I couldn't even find her profile when I looked for it a few days after passing up the offer. I didn't feel comfortable and I think it's perfectly reasonable |
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08-07-11, 09:26 AM | ||
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08-07-11, 09:50 AM | |
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I've used the gift option to buy and sell DVDs and I am not a deceitful person!
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08-07-11, 10:07 AM | ||
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Besides the dishonesty of using the gift option for purchases, it's a risk to the buyer, who ends up with no recourse in the event the seller doesn't send the item or the item is defective. |
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