[meteorite-list] Notice to eBay Meteorite Sellers

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 18:17:40 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW_y+RwuR6U3u3yFZkDH7McVhzs+Z-vSUAY6NbVokDRSAg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Anne and List,

No, I have PayPal and use PayPal, but my PayPal account is not
"linked" to my eBay account. I do not sell on eBay. so eBay has no
business having deeper access into my PayPal account. What if eBay
gets hacked again? What if eBay makes a mistake and autobills me for
something?

I pay for eBay items with PayPal, but there is some kind of seller
setting that allows sellers to block bids from bidders with accounts
not linked to eBay. I will take a screenshot of it the next time it
happens. I don't recall offhand who the sellers in question are.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 3/1/15, Anne Black <impactika at aol.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I am sorry to disagree with you but if I was still selling on Ebay I would
> require buyers to use Paypal. Why? Let me tell you why.
>
> A few years ago, when I was still accepting credit cards, a guy bought $4000
> worth of merchandise, my bank accepted the card, so did the issuing bank,
> and told me that I was clear to ship. A few weeks later the $4000
> disappeared from my bank account. I called my bank then the other bank, and
> ended up having not so friendly discussions with the fraud department of 3
> different banks, and they all said the same thing. A guy with a stolen
> credit card number has 2 to 3 weeks to buy up a storm (often on Ebay!),
> stuff he can resell quickly on Craiglist (or Ebay!), gather up the loot and
> disappear, before the real owner of the card discovers the problem. By then
> you find out that the name was fake (since he gave you the card number in an
> email you never saw what name was really on the card), the address was a
> mail box somewhere. The 3 banks admitted that stealing meteorites was
> unusual but the rest was standard procedure, and no, there was nothing they
> could/would do about my loss.
>
> So I was out $4000 and the merchandise; since it happened to be consignment
> pieces, I also had to paid the owner of those pieces. That is when I stopped
> accepting cards. I already had a Paypal account, most everybody including
> big institutions (even NASA!) have one too, so now my preferred form of
> payment is Paypal. And no I have never had a problem with Paypal.
>
> I made that decision a few years ago, before Target, Home Depot, and many
> others got hacked and millions of credit card numbers got stolen, so the
> odds of dealing with a thief with a stolen card are even greater now. And
> since I don't want my card numbers to be stolen too, I have retired them, I
> pay everything cash or checks (or Paypal on the Net). And it has never been
> a problem.
>
> Have I lost sales because of it? not that I know of, even during the Tucson
> Show, people are happy to whip out their smart phone and go to Paypal.
>
> And now you know.
>
> Anne M. Black
> www.IMPACTIKA.com
> IMPACTIKA at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks via Meteorite-list
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 6:50 pm
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Notice to eBay Meteorite Sellers
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have noticed a new trend with meteorite dealers on eBay.
> Two
> different dealers have done this that I know of, and there may
> be
> others.
>
> What I am referring to is bidder requirements. I tried to place
> a bid
> on two different specimens from two different dealers and both
> times
> eBay stopped me and said I could not bid because my PayPal account
> is
> not "linked" to eBay.
>
> I think eBay is a hell for sellers and I loathe the
> eBay boardroom. I
> do not want those greedy bastards having any more access to
> my
> financial information that is necessary. So I refuse to link my
> PayPal
> account to eBay. I know this is somewhat silly since both
> companies are
> intimately linked, but I do not want eBay having it's
> hooks any deeper into my
> pocketbook than necessary.
>
> I am sure there are other eBay members who feel
> the same. If you are
> a seller who has set this requirment, you are losing
> sales. You just
> lost one right now. I could have bid your items up, but I was
> not
> allowed to place a bid. It's not my loss, I will always find the
> specimen
> I want eventually, either off eBay entirely, or from another
> seller without
> those requirements.
>
> My money is just as green as anyone else's and it spends
> just the
> same. If you have this requirement set on your eBay auctions,
> then
> you are losing money.
>
> Just a heads-up. Do with it what you want.
> ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
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Received on Sun 01 Mar 2015 06:17:40 PM PST