I personally have had no problems with PayPal. They do what they say and charge what they say they charge. It has made ebay far easier to deal with. I hate having to deal with a bank check or money order.
Bruce Monday, June 16, 2003, 12:21:26 PM, you wrote: >> Let's say I win an auction for $10, I pay $10 for a item, do I have to pay >> 3% or does the seller pay it (out of the $10)? DGAJ> Unless they've changed it since I signed up, it works like DGAJ> this: DGAJ> The person sending money never pays an extra fee to DGAJ> PayPal. DGAJ> People can get no-fee accounts if they never expect to DGAJ> receive more than a certain amount of money in a single DGAJ> month -- I think it's $300, but a quick check of the DGAJ> FAQ on www.paypal.com will verify or refute that. DGAJ> People who sign up for accounts that can receive more than DGAJ> $300 in a month, get a small fee taken out of payments they DGAJ> receive. DGAJ> People who do a Whole Lot More business qualify for a smaller DGAJ> percentage fee. DGAJ> I've heard some real horror stories about PayPal (take a DGAJ> look at <http://www.paypalsucks.com>), but personally I have DGAJ> not had any problem with them at all (including using their DGAJ> ATM card to spend money from my PayPal account in brick-and-mortar DGAJ> stores, and having money transferred from my PayPal account to DGAJ> my checking account). I'm not too thrilled with their recent DGAJ> changes to the list of what you're allowed to buy using their DGAJ> service -- it hasn't affected me, but the some of the specifics DGAJ> annoy me on a political level -- and have been considering signing DGAJ> up with a competing service so that anyone who needs to send me DGAJ> money but is boycotting PayPal can do so, but PayPal seems to be DGAJ> the ubiquitous online payment service, and my address is the DGAJ> one htat collects money for online CD sales for The Homespun DGAJ> Ceilidh Band, so I'm not going to drop PayPal unless they pull DGAJ> something that does affect me directly. DGAJ> As for the fee, I just factored that into the "shipping and DGAJ> handling" fee (call it part of "handling") for online CD sales, DGAJ> and when friends send me money for other reasons, the fee comes DGAJ> to a small enough amount that I manage not to lose sleep over DGAJ> it. DGAJ> Again, the _sender_ does not pay a fee. DGAJ> -- Glenn
