Don't use "BidPay"!!!!

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Joe R. wrote:

> At 09:23 AM 9/21/05 -0500, Gil wrote:
> >I used BidPay once for an international order. It was a big pain, IIRC.
> >
> >I have never sold, so have no personal observation there, but if you Google
> >about it you find all kinds of horror stories about PayPal
>
>   Here are a couple.  I strongly suggest that anyone that buys or sells
> over the net read them.
>
>   <http://www.paypalwarning.com/>
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/02/anyone_ever_managed_to_claim/>

This site exists solely to scare people into subscribing to their merchant
services account.  It's not a bad deal, but I question the tactics used to
sell their services.

BTW, their "limited time special" keeps getting renewed every day.  So
it's not very limited.

>   I've got news for you, they will freeze payments even with NO complaints!
> A friend of mine's brother sold a laptop on E-bay for $800. He recieved
> payment via PP and shipped the laptop. The buyer confirmed that he recieved
> it and that he was satisfied with it. Months later E-bay pulled $800 from
> the seller's account for the transaction with no explaination. The seller
> checked with the buyer and the buyer was still satisfied with the
> transaction and said that he hadn't made any complaint to PP. He even wrote
> a letter to that affect to both PP and the seller but PP still refuses to
> return the sellers money or give any explaination of my they pulled it. The
> last time that I talked to my friend it had been going on for 8 months with
> no end in sight.

Has he ever heard of the "legal system"?

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