some advice needed again pls

tan160581

hi
i won a bag from ebay costing nearly £100 but didnt realise i gotta pay by bank transfer his from belgium with feedback of 303 but i didnt realise there would be bank charges etc 4 a considerable amount, anyway i asked him if he would do paypal - he wont - he said i can send cash by registered post.
i dont feel happy with this - would any1 be or am i worrying,
would i be insured 4 registered post to belgium
some advice needed des
why cant he just open a paypal account???
cheers
tania :mad:

Sugar_Coated_Owl

why cant he just open a paypal account???

Hang on, Why should he open a PayPal account? He specifically said bank transfer in his auction. Surely it's your fault for not reading the payment methods that the seller accepts before bidding.

I wouldn't recommend sending cash abroad by any means.

tan160581

yeah but its gonna cost me an extra £30 or more, its free to open a paypal account, and with paypal im covered if anything happens

OllieLong

Yeah but its not free for him to accept money through PayPal.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

I think you're missing the point. PayPal wasn't an accepted method of payment. It will cost you extra to do a bank transfer but perhaps it would have paid you to have actually read the whole auction properly before bidding. Yeah it's free to open a PayPal account but the seller shouldn't have to do that.

TheHacker

Well said - razorbladekisses!
Why can't people just read item descriptions properly b4 bidding?

jenniferpa

This may be really stupid, but what about a travellers check, made payable to the vendor?

Kaminari_2

You can't insure cash in the post so i wouldn't recommend sending cash. you might just have to pay the bank transfer and call it an expensive lesson - read all the terms and conditions before you bid.

shellsuit

Either pay, and be out of pocket, then slap yourself for not reading the listing properly

OR

Don't pay, get a strike and a big fat juicy neg

soolin

jenniferpa wrote:

This may be really stupid, but what about a travellers check, made payable to the vendor?

Travellers cheques are only secure because you sign them when you collect them at the bank, and you sign them again when you cash them. So two different people cannot use the same travellers cheque.

Soo

jenniferpa

Well yes, that's how TC's work. But if they've been signed in those 2 places, and made payable to a specific person I wonder how easy it would be for yet a third person to cash them or pay them into a bank account. Just so I'm making myself clear, I sign them "jenniferpa" at the bank, sign them again "jenniferpa" and fill out the payable line to "vendor". Could "thief" cash them or pay them into an account?

Jennifer