[DeTomaso] Paypal/eBay - was Fikse wheels

[Ken Green]

I have bought and sold a lot through ebay, over 700 transactions.  Basically, the Internet has created a huge, all most world market for the stuff you would have thrown away 10 years ago, but ebay has been pretty greedy and manipulative.   They nearly force you to use Paypal, and I think when I added a fee to the description if they buyer used Paypal, ebay cancelled the auction.  I wish there were other major on-line auctions, but at least for the present there are not.  
 
All in all, it's a very beneficial service, but they are really squeezing every drop of blood they can out of the system.  Does anyone know of a good automotive related alternative?
 
Ken

--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Paypal/eBay - was Fikse wheels
To: fresnofinches at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 7:09 AM



Thanks to Larry, Larry & Will - I'm gonna open up a new bank acct and a new email address.  I mean, it's not like I spend a lot on eBay.  Yeah, one of our credit cards was "hacked" last year - same thing as yours.  Visa took care of it.   ---Bill





> From: fresnofinches at aol.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:48:52 -0800
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Paypal/eBay - was Fikse wheels
> 
> I'm with Will.
> 
> I've probably done about 600-800 transactions with Paypal.  They have  
> never abused or messed-up their access to my bank account.
> 
> If it REALLY scares someone, I suggest they do as I have done, and set  
> up a separate account just for their Paypal transactions. I did just  
> that, but I did it so I have a "Pantera Fund" that I can access  
> without feeling guilty that the dog has no bone, the wife has no  
> clothes and the kids have no iTunes.
> 
> If you were REALLY,  REALLY paranoid,  you could just keep the Paypal  
> account basically empty and transfer funds to and from it when the  
> need arose. If your banking institution has online account access, you  
> could do the back-and-forth transferring from your home computer.
> 
> But then, THAT probably would scare you too.  :-)
> 
> A year or two back my major credit card was hacked and someone started  
> to use it to buy airline tickets to South America. It was NOT the  
> account linked to Paypal.
> 
> Stolen, no doubt, from some merchant's data base that was WAY less  
> secure than Paypal's.
> 
> Larry
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