Does it work say you accept Paypal in your auction, and then try to strongly discourage the buyer in your email?
I received something like this in a winning email:
<< Paypal personal account limitations do not allow payment by credit card for PayPal. If you need to pay with a credit card, then please sign up for one of the other available options stated above. Use of PayPal is available if your PayPal account has a credit balance for an amount equal to or larger than this invoice total. D********@hotmail.com is a personal paypal account. Credit card payments or payments that carry a fee on this account will be denied.
Business account PayPal payment via credit card is not available due to PayPal's transaction fee of $0.95 charged to our account for transfer of money for this item. We feel this fee for this transaction is larger than the benefit this service provides us, since other - free alternatives are avaliable and it upsets many people if we ask for this payment. >>
I didn't read it through the first time, so I signed up for C2IT (and got my $10 free!). So basically this guy is saying, use your checking account when sending Paypal payment or I won't accept it unless you add on the extra 0.95, right? Smart, I wonder if that would discourage payment though. Personally, I upgraded my account to premier business whatever, so now I incur fees for all payments.
Or, would it work to ask the buyer to pay 2.9% more for using Paypal?
On a related note, I have "strongly encouraged" buyers to use C2IT in my emails to winning bidders, but none have done so so far.
I received something like this in a winning email:
<< Paypal personal account limitations do not allow payment by credit card for PayPal. If you need to pay with a credit card, then please sign up for one of the other available options stated above. Use of PayPal is available if your PayPal account has a credit balance for an amount equal to or larger than this invoice total. D********@hotmail.com is a personal paypal account. Credit card payments or payments that carry a fee on this account will be denied.
Business account PayPal payment via credit card is not available due to PayPal's transaction fee of $0.95 charged to our account for transfer of money for this item. We feel this fee for this transaction is larger than the benefit this service provides us, since other - free alternatives are avaliable and it upsets many people if we ask for this payment. >>
I didn't read it through the first time, so I signed up for C2IT (and got my $10 free!). So basically this guy is saying, use your checking account when sending Paypal payment or I won't accept it unless you add on the extra 0.95, right? Smart, I wonder if that would discourage payment though. Personally, I upgraded my account to premier business whatever, so now I incur fees for all payments.
Or, would it work to ask the buyer to pay 2.9% more for using Paypal?
On a related note, I have "strongly encouraged" buyers to use C2IT in my emails to winning bidders, but none have done so so far.