OT: PayPal fees are a scam

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

People that ask for the 3% premium when they are selling something are cheapasses.

Paypal is a business and they have to do thier "buyer protection" all the time, I'm sure they lose out on that plenty. They just need to stay in the black.

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

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I never leave money in my paypal account.

I had a paypal debit card with the 1% cash back or something, I used that anytime I get money from a sale or something. cuse it takes too long for the moeny to transfer to my bank

 

[dkguitarist 5,000+ posts]

i'll ask for that 3% when dealing with a couple hundred bucks or more. would you wanna be out $50 on 3% fees?? i think not.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

but i do agree that paypal sucks in some ways. and i hate that it takes 3 days to transfer to my bank account from a sale. i always remove money from my paypal account tho. anything i do, will just withdraw it from there when i'm trying to save up in paypal instead of eating the cost of transferring money several times.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

To get $50 in paypal fees you'd have to sell something for almost $1,700..... $50 is a drop in the hat if I actually found a buyer willing to spend that much.

 

[killahbean 10+ year member]

I only ask for the fees if its a big transaction and it'll cost me too much.....call me a cheapass all ya want....lol

edit - if it turns out to be a dealbreaker and its not worth selling then no deal will be made

 

[nVRuckus 5,000+ posts]

To get $50 in paypal fees you'd have to sell something for almost $1,700..... $50 is a drop in the hat if I actually found a buyer willing to spend that much.

not really If you sell a laptop then you dont get much overhead on that price and $50 cuts into the profit alot //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

i just add it into my asking price.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I've sold so much shit through paypal and have NEVER asked anyone to pay 3%...I actually had someone send me $10 extra because of the fees out of their own kindness, and I refunded them $10.

It's BS and shows how cheap a person truly is when they are asking for 3% on a $50 item, that's less then $2.

If I see someone selling something and they mention "add 3% for Paypal", I forget about it, don't want to deal with cheap ****s.

Those are probably the same people that give a $2 tip on a $50 bill at a restaurant.

 

[dkguitarist 5,000+ posts]

I've sold so much shit through paypal and have NEVER asked anyone to pay 3%...I actually had someone send me $10 extra because of the fees out of their own kindness, and I refunded them $10.
It's BS and shows how cheap a person truly is when they are asking for 3% on a $50 item, that's less then $2.

If I see someone selling something and they mention "add 3% for Paypal", I forget about it, don't want to deal with cheap ****s.

Those are probably the same people that give a $2 tip on a $50 bill at a restaurant.

i always tip $3-$5! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[gl0ck 10+ year member]

i tip what i can afford...

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

any trouble i've ever had with paypal ended up being my fault.

paypal closed my account a few weeks ago, after i had receieved a payment for my L7's, but it ended up being my dumb fault for not closing my old account correctly, and since i moved recently, and have a new WAN ip adress, they haulted my accounts for security. fair enough.

And paypal CANT just take money you owe them from your bank account. My paypal account was overdrawn a few hundred dollars once, and i actually had to send them a money order, they wouldn't (and didn't) take money from my checking account.

Only thing i can say about paypal, is to ALWAYS use tracking numbers when you sell something. That's how my account got so overdrafted. I sold a sony p910i phone for $575 on ebay, and was stupid and sent the thing usps without delivery confirmation, and the lady just said she never got it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

That, and don't send anyone money unless it's for an auction. There's no fraud protection unless the transaction is for a winning ebay auction. And that includes an auction that ended early/was removed, etc. You need to be the winning bidder, and they need to be the seller. I lost a LOT of money this way, by buying a car from long island (i'm retarded) on the volkswagen forums, and the guy just flaked, and never returned my phone calls.

Nothing i could do.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

i just add it into my asking price.

Yup. As should everyone else if they're gonna cry about it.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

That doesn't make it a scam. That makes it a bank.

Is PayPal FDIC insured, though? If your bank goes out of business you're insured up to $100K per account. I'm not so certain that PayPal offers such a thing...

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I never leave money in my paypal account.

I do b/c I get $$$ back using my PayPal debit card. It's not alot of $$$, mind you, but if the card gets used often (and in my case it does) it adds up.

People that ask for the 3% premium when they are selling something are cheapasses.

Prowler = CheapAss //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[AVSTANG02]

This is happening to me right now.

The seller refunded my money because I paid with a CC.

So he sends me an email saying add $10 to it and you can pay with a CC

but he only has to pay a lil over $2 in fees.. heh..

I was happy to pay his fees but not his fees x5

I also think you guys that won't pay the sellers fees are the cheap ones.

The seller is trying to make money from the deal and has very small margins to work with.

Pay the fee if the seller asks you to (if its the correct amount of fees)

if you are getting a good deal why not? whats an extre $2 bucks when yer saving $100?

 

[AVSTANG02]

also you ****ing american's

stop telling canadian customs how much the shit is actually worth.. **** sometimes the idiot will say it is worth even more than I paid for it!!

u think the seller fees are bad try being a canadian and paying the import fees.. makes ebay completely useless.. 90% of the time I only buy from canadian sellers..