American wants to pay by money order

Tirian

soolin wrote: »

Unfortunately though you cannot ask for cash as it is against ebay rules, so i the buyer got shirty they could turn you in.

If your auction stated paypal only for overseas buyers then stick to it, they don't need a paypal account to send money, they can make a one off payment via card.

Soo

If it's not in your auction details, then they can't prove that you asked for cash though. It would just end up being your word against theirs - and they wouldn't be able to prove otherwise if you said that they hadn't sent payment.

Tirian

greeneye wrote: »

Auctionchex exchange rate isn't great though.
http://auctionchex.com/excalc-s.html
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi

Selling dollars you loose 5 pence in the pound at todays rates compared to ebays. Although you have to factor in paypal fees on top of ebay's conversion rate.

Yeah, I discovered this to my detriment when sending a bank transfer payment for a German auction. It's good value for sending small amounts of money (less than £50), but probably not worth it for anything much higher than that .. you may as well just pay the TIPANET fee and do it through your bank, because the better exchange rate will probably make it either about even or else a better deal.