PayPal Banishment

[Neal Myers]

Some folks on Gunbroker use the phrase "discreet Paypal accepted". If you carefully omit all key words in your correspondence, you will have no trouble. Paypal & ebay use "bots"; i.e., they search all correspondence for any of the words on their "unacceptable" list. Actually, they are reading your emails.

Neal

[rcathey]

And one more little update on this.

As discussed earlier in the thread, eBay is moving away from PayPal and migrating users to their new payment platform called "Managed Payments."

I was told by eBay over the phone that they cannot currently just "push a button" to opt people into Managed Payments. It is a case-by-case review of sellers and only a limited amount will be let in per year due to "certain agreements with PayPal."

But here's the deal, you can request to be considered for the trial through a page on their site. Since I'm on the computer every night printing shipping labels anyway, I just left this page up and requested their consideration every night for about 3 weeks.

And now I'm in! Coincidence???

I know not everyone loves eBay, and I certainly don't agree with them politically, but in a war of attrition the troops need supplied by any means.

Today is a very good day for this particular small (one-man) business.

[Zorba]

So - what about "managed payments"? Are they going to have the same BS stipulations?

[rcathey]

Managed Payments will be only through eBay. Simply put, I won't be able to use it for the same things that got me banned from PayPal.
I have a self-professed "second amendment friendly" credit card processor now anyway that handles that stuff.

[Zorba]

Managed Payments will be only through eBay.

Until its not. Everybody and their sister is trying to get you to pay through their service, I can't see eBay staying out of that market for long. They were, after all, in it for years with PayPal in the first place.

[rcathey]

Until its not.

Perhaps. But again, I have a credit card processor that handles all my outside-of-ebay transactions.
I'm averaging .35% (yes, one third of one percent) on my transactions through them.

Way cheaper than PayPal anyway. PayPal banishing me has saved me approximately $800 in fees since they did it. Thanks, PayPal!!

[rcathey]

One, probably, final update:

PayPal has released the funds they had on hold after their 180 days. I really expected to have to fight for it! I can now completely wipe my hands of PayPal for good

[painter777]

To bad there isn't a 'List' of how many are currently sitting with funds locked down by Pay Pal and the total money tied up.
I'm sure their sitting on a nice stash that they make $interest on.
But best to refund before tax period ends. Now the funds you had locked down become a expenditure for them.

RC,
Happy for you....
Served your time well.