I think BidPay is outrageously expensive. Minimum of $5.00/money order. I
won't use them. I just posted a regular Postal MO to a seller that offered
BidPay as his only option to regular mail just this week. Cost? 74¢ or just
under 150f the BidPay charge, and that included the stamp. Add in my
envelope, one sheet of paper and a smidgen of toner, and I'm still under a
buck, I'm sure.
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Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: andrew fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 05:29
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM][OT] Forwarded- Ebay & Paypal.com- The Good and the Bad
I've started using BidPay as a seller - it's inconvenient because they only
send out money orders in USD and they take three weeks to clear here
(unless I pay a fee - then it's only two!) I post when I get the
confirmation so it's very quick for the buyer.
However, I've had no problems at all. I don't know what it looks like from
the buyers end. I still have buyers who send me a money order by post,
despite the fact that I suggest BidPay, and it costs them a 10-15 day wait.
Is it secure, cheap? I'll probably have to use it myself as a buyer
eventually.
AndrewF
>Susan
>
>I'm glad that I used BidPay last month, at Tom Scales' suggestion.
>
>Surely the claims against the VISA accounts will alert the VISA
>system to the problems with PayPal and their account (PayPal's) will
>be withdrawn? Last year, I had a problem with getting a refund on
>part of a holiday (on the Canal du Midi in France); it took 2 months
>to realise that the agent for the holiday was not working very hard
>to organise the refund, so I told the payee intermediary through whom
>I had used a VISA to pay that I was about to claim the refund through
>VISA. We received the refund without recourse to VISA in 7 days.
>Retailers do not want to lose their credit card payment facilities...
>
>Chris
>
>snip...
>>
>>Two months later, guess what shows up on my bank balance? Yup...PayPal
went
>>ahead and transfered it into my PayPal account, even tho they said it was
>>cancelled and even tho I wrote them back asking for it to be voided.
>>
>>This, plus the stories filtering down now convince me to stay away from
>>PayPal.
>>Susan
>>
>>Susan Steele
>>Virginia USA
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