[SEL] Brass Fuel Feeder for Bessemer Kerosene Engine - eBay Wierdness

[Steve W.]

Actually one of the things about accepting PayPal on Ebay is that you 
are required to accept credit cards for payment.

> https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/ua/USUA

4.2 Receiving Different Types of Payments.
If you have a Personal Account you may receive Balance/Bank Funded
Payments for free, and up to 5 Card Funded Payments per 12 month period
for a Fee, except that you may not receive Card Funded Payments into a
Personal Account for an eBay transaction. If you have a Premier or Business
Account, you may receive an unlimited number of Card Funded Payments. Please
note that all payments received by a Premier or Business Account will be
subject to a Fee in accordance with section 8 of this Agreement.


4.3 Use of PayPal on eBay.
  Sellers who offer PayPal as a payment method in their eBay listings
(either via logos or through text in the item description) must accept
Card Funded Payments. Sellers must have a Premier or Business PayPal
Account, or be willing to upgrade from a Personal PayPal Account to a
Premier or Business Account upon receipt of a Card Funded Payment.
Sellers may not communicate to buyers that they only accept Balance/Bank
Funded Payments, or will not accept Card Funded Payments. eCheck is the
only Funding Source that eBay Sellers are allowed to block.




fero_ah at city-net.com wrote:
> Hi Rob and others,
> 
> Yeah, the 900-pound gorilla at eBay/PayPal objected to my auction description. 
> I comitted two horrific crimes.  First, I said that I would (GASP!) accept cash
> as payment (in addition to other conventional payments like money orders,
> etc.).  That's apparently a major NO-NO.  And perhaps, even more egregious, I
> dared to say that I had a Basic (i.e. free - GASP!) PayPal account and that
> because of that I didn't accept credit card payments via PayPal (only OK with
> Premium or Business accounts which cost $$$).
> 
> The ad wording looked like this...
> "Full payment must be received within two weeks.  PayPal is preferred (but no
> credit cards, sorry).  If you’re using PayPal it MUST be a cash transfer from
> your PayPal account or from your bank account via PayPal.  I only have a basic
> PayPal account and the PayPal weasels choose to block credit card payments to a
> basic PayPal account.  Cash, personal check, or money order are always fine."
> 
> That's the wording that I've used previously.  Apparently as a part of the New
> eBay Experience (AKA make more money for eBay), they are pushing very hard for
> all sellers to pay for Premium / Business PayPal accounts.  I guess getting
> vigorish on the PayPal account balances that would make a Mafia don blush just
> isn't enough.
> 
> I'm working on alternate wording that I'll try and slip past the eBay censors. 
> I love a challenge.  Wish me luck!!  8->>
> 
> See ya,  Arnie
> 
> Quoting Rob Skinner <rskinner at rustyiron.com>:
> 
>> On Jul 3, 2007, at 8:00 PM, fero_ah at city-net.com wrote:
>>> Please pardon the shameless self-promotion.  If you have a Bessemer  
>>> kerosene engine ...
> 
>> It appears that eBay frowns upon shameless self-promotion.  They've  
>> canceled your auction.
> 
> 
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