Are there any paypal-esque ebay payment tools that DONT take a huge chunk of your money?

[bubbasmith99]

Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

 

[Nocturnal]

United States Money Order.

 

[MacBaine]

jack up your shipping to include the fees like everyone else does. But don't tell anybody....

 

[Ns1]

walmart money order

 

[MysticWar]

Paypal fee is quite reasonable. The fee/rate is not much more than if you were to get your own merchant account. Credit card processing companies usually charge between 1.4 - 2.0% on VISA & MASTERCARD and 3% on AMEX. Plus, there's a monthly service fee that you have to deal with and per transaction fee. Then there's the equipment fee. The list goes on and on. For such a small or infrequent transaction, I think Paypal is a good option. I guess it's a small price for you to pay for the convenience of not having to deal with all the paperworks, equipment cost, and other miscellaneous processing fees that come with a real business merchant account.

Or you can do everything by check via snail mail.

 

[BruinEd03]

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

Ed's right, personal accounts have ZERO FEES to accept payments.

Of course there's a catch, you CANNOT accept credit card payments.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

doesnt western union offer a paypal -esque for ebay? and the fee goes to the buyer?

 

[bubbasmith99]

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

crap...... does anybody know of a way i can revert back to a non-premier acct???

 

[bubbasmith99]

i guess maybe i should keep a 'premier acct' open for those ebay schmucks who will only pay via cc and also have a regular one for those that registered bacnk accts with paypal?

 

[BruinEd03]

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

crap...... does anybody know of a way i can revert back to a non-premier acct???

Just email them and say you want to cancel the premium and go back to the free. And from then on make sure ur clear that you don't accept CC based Paypal. Who care about those schmucks who only have CC. From what I gather most people will also have a non-cc based Paypal. It just means that at most it might take them 3/4 days more to input $ in there.

-Ed

 

[CarpeDeo]

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

crap...... does anybody know of a way i can revert back to a non-premier acct???

Just email them and say you want to cancel the premium and go back to the free. And from then on make sure ur clear that you don't accept CC based Paypal. Who care about those schmucks who only have CC. From what I gather most people will also have a non-cc based Paypal. It just means that at most it might take them 3/4 days more to input $ in there.

-Ed

Yep- I recently did this.

But be prepared for the barrage of people who will still try to send your credit card payments.

 

[bubbasmith99]

Originally posted by: CarpeDeo

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99

Originally posted by: BruinEd03

Originally posted by: bubbasmith99
Im tired of these bastids cutting into my profit margins :disgust:

does anybody know of a good alternative or, better yet, a way to minimize the percent off the top that paypal (and even ebay) take from me when i sell stuff online?

They don't take a percentage if you don't have premium...all that means is u can't accept CC.

-Ed

crap...... does anybody know of a way i can revert back to a non-premier acct???

Just email them and say you want to cancel the premium and go back to the free. And from then on make sure ur clear that you don't accept CC based Paypal. Who care about those schmucks who only have CC. From what I gather most people will also have a non-cc based Paypal. It just means that at most it might take them 3/4 days more to input $ in there.

-Ed

Yep- I recently did this.

But be prepared for the barrage of people who will still try to send your credit card payments.

aw crap.... i JUST sent them an email asking them to downgrade my account ........ i hope i dont have to deal with a whole bunch of CC payers.

 

[EvanGeliSt]

**rants** people dun always read the payment terms - they end up paying using CC to my paypal account and i have to reject them...

I'm sick of ebay taking so much during and auction and trying to take even more using Paypal... *rant ends*

As for the payment options - i use C2it for credit card payments. As far as I recall - it's the senders who take the fees

 

[amnesiac]

I called Paypal and in 5 minutes talked to a rep who downgraded my acct.

For cc payments i just used an alternate email address and made a new acct.