Vent! Rant!

Good luck on getting a post office to cash a USPS MO if it is more than about $200.00. Mine, never has that much cash on hand. I got one for $1200.00 and it took 4 trips to the PO before they had enough "cash" to cash it. I have never had a problem with PayPal but I don't use them very often. My preference for all, except members of the SWCA, for whom I will accept personal checks, is a Cashiers Check from a bank!

medxam
 
I do not have or use pay pal, never have. Don't like Ebay's (Pay Pal's owners) politics or gun stance. Would rather not shop on Ebay at all, but other sites haven't caught up yet.
If I see an item on Ebay I ask the seller if they will take a MO. If they say PP only I move on. Have made some excelent contacts that take cash and MO, and those that don't aren't on my frequent shopper's list.
Have not really had any problems on the forum by not taking PP. And I do not think that I have lost any sales because of it. Again if the seller lists PP only, I move on.
Common courtesy and Pay Pal do not go hand in hand.
Thom Braxton
SWCA #1474
 
medxam said:
Good luck on getting a post office to cash a USPS MO if it is more than about $200.00. Mine, never has that much cash on hand. I got one for $1200.00 and it took 4 trips to the PO before they had enough "cash" to cash it. I have never had a problem with PayPal but I don't use them very often. My preference for all, except members of the SWCA, for whom I will accept personal checks, is a Cashiers Check from a bank!

medxam
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Why would you go to the PO? Any bank you have a account with will cash them.
 
labworm said:
A simple explanation, Paypal - pay with plastic.

Personal check or MO, cash is needed.;)
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Also. Paypal = plastic = instant gratification.

Cash/MO = by the time i was able to get around to it (usually the next day) i had time to sleep on it and decided i dont want/need it so bad.

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StatesRightist said:
Why would you go to the PO? Any bank you have a account with will cash them.
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My bank issues a hold on any money order for 10 business days.

Banked with them for 27 years and know them all by name.

I got burned once on a Western Union money order----after 22 days it was debited from my account.

That was the end of me taking any money order other than Postal Money Orders.

On the other hand----I have done over 3,000 Paypal transactions and have never had even the smallest glitch. Did six Paypal deals today. Instant money. I transfer the funds out into a special checking account every night that I set up just for Paypal.

I agree PP is the devil, but so is CraigsList and BOA and CapitalOne and Chase and Ebay and about a million other companies.

Paypal is a tool I use to make money, pure and simple.
 
ThirtyAcres said:
My bank issues a hold on any money order for 10 business days.

Banked with them for 27 years and know them all by name.

I got burned once on a Western Union money order----after 22 days it was debited from my account.

That was the end of me taking any money order other than Postal Money Orders.

On the other hand----I have done over 3,000 Paypal transactions and have never had even the smallest glitch. Did six Paypal deals today. Instant money. I transfer the funds out into a special checking account every night that I set up just for Paypal.

I agree PP is the devil, but so is CraigsList and BOA and CapitalOne and Chase and Ebay and about a million other companies.

Paypal is a tool I use to make money, pure and simple.
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Wow, if I were in that boat and that story, I wouldn't take MO's either.
 
I think sellers should ship you the item before you pay for it. Let the buyer look it over and then send payment.

Why is it up to the buyer to trust a seller that the item is actually what they say and then actually send it to you after you sent them whatever form of payment.??

Perhaps the sellers should trust the buyers as much a buyers are supposed to trust the seller.:rolleyes:

If you think about it, what's the difference???

If I can't have it in my hand I ain't buying nothing.:)

(used items from private individuals that I do not know)
 
Living in The People's Republik of Kalifornistan has it's upside, I suppose. I don't need to worry about any of this because nobody will ship a gun here anyway...:mad:
 
medxam said:
Good luck on getting a post office to cash a USPS MO if it is more than about $200.00. Mine, never has that much cash on hand. I got one for $1200.00 and it took 4 trips to the PO before they had enough "cash" to cash it. I have never had a problem with PayPal but I don't use them very often. My preference for all, except members of the SWCA, for whom I will accept personal checks, is a Cashiers Check from a bank!

medxam
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I was sent one for a little over four hundred. Lost it. Found it, under a couch cushion, three years later. Took it down to the post office. Laid it on the counter. They gave me four hundred and something dollars.

Try that with a check.
 
I quit using PayPal when someone in California charged a Iphone to my credit card, $798.00. It took 30 days to get my money back and that shot down our Christmas spending that year. PayPal's security sucks big time. I refuse to use them ever again.

As for paying by credit card, I'm always getting checks from my credit card companies to use. I don't use them because I refuse to pay the fees they want. But if you want something bad enough or you're getting a great deal that will offset the fees, then use the checks. Or you can get a PIN number for your credit card, take out cash and get a money order to send a check. If people refuse to send a check or money order it always makes me wonder if they are using stolen credit cards or trying to pull a fast one with the payment.
 
I'm not very trusting. I won't send a MO, personal check through the mail without some insurance if the amount is financially significant. It doesn't matter if the person has a lot of good references; to me he is still a stranger. If I am going to put up months worth of savings, I'm going to need concrete reassurances. If I were to buy a firearm from an individual, I'll have them send it to my brick and mortar FFL (I will make allowances if I recognize their FFL) then pay when the FFL receives it.

If the shipper isn't willing then I will simply shop elsewhere.
 
So you have never bought a gun except at a brick-and-mortar store? 'Cause I don't know of anybody that will send you the gun without getting paid first.

Someone up the thread said something about "why should I have to send the money first, and trust them to send the gun? Why can't they send me the gun and trust me to send the money?"

If I send you 500 bucks and you don't send me the gun, I get the law involved. Eventually (hopefully) I get my 500 back, and it's worth the same as when I sent it to you. Five hundred dollars.

If I send you a gun and you don't send money, then I get the law involved. Eventually (hopefully) I get my gun back. But in the meantime you might have dropped it on the concrete floor. You might have bobbed the barrel or changed the sights You might have taken it deep sea fishing and not cleaned it. You might have taken an electro-pencil to the sideplate. You might have done many things that make my 500-dollar gun no longer worth 500 dollars.

That's why you would not get MY gun until I had YOUR money.
 
Nope, I wouldn't and never have. Too much stress worrying about the sale. Better for both of us. I would hassle the buyer with too many questions.
 
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