I will try and only use paypal on ebay now, we got hacked. I tracked the bank and branch that the money went to and the cops said there was nothing they could do and its just another ebay problem. So the guy got away with it. :evil:
What do you mean you got hacked? Someone got your bank account details and took your money? What does that have to do with ebay? That is clearly a crime and the cops would have to do something about it!
I used to have a paypal account but after paying my AUS$15 annual fee and using it once, I trashed it and given the grief they gave me, I'll not be signing up again.
paypal might be ok,
but what about members who don't have credit cards, it does happen, not everybody has or wants a credit card, and what about the younger members that can't get a credit card, it's ok for some of the members but you are forgetting about all the others,
just another case of looking after one section of members and forgeting about the others,
you should set up a payment section where you can do paypal/internet transfer/money order/cheque, it is possible as it's done on ebay all the time,
i feel if you really want all members to subscribe you would have more then one way to pay...
just my opinion.................
I had one of those mini pocket bikes for sale and a guy bought it, i sent him an email a couple of days later asking when he was going to pay for it, he said he allready had. So we checked it out and all our acount details had been changed, we tracked it back to some asian name and the branch, the police computer fraud squad said *exact words* Its just another bloody ebay problem, i suguest you dont use it. They had bigger problems to deal with other than my few hundred dollar problem. They guy did get most of his money back and ebay were going to look into it...I have no idea of their outcome
Thanks caffiend. Sorry magpie i didnt explain it too well hey.
I think it actually started from an email we got, we logged onto ebay through the email *DER* how dumb, it was a virus thing that people can get your passwords. Then when we typed it in the guy had full access to our ebay account, (he would have known that the bike was sold) so when we logged off he logged back on and changed OUR bank details to HIS, so the guy that had bought the bike done a direct deposit into HIS account, then he deleted it a took off. Hope that makes sence this time
You can go to the bank and get a debit card, looks like a credit card and is used like one but only with money you actually put into it yourself, that way if someone does hack you they can only get whats in there, not extra like on a credit card.
I have been using paypal for over 5 years now, with ebay and without, the most problems people have with it are due to scammers on ebay, not paypal itself.
For convienence I love it, and I rather that to any other online payment system.
do you need a credit card to use paypal?
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