paypal

vale_2

:rolleyes: Hi all

Any one got Paypal discount codes please????

Ta in advance!!

ukbill69

You have just missed out on a 10% off they where doing back a week ago.

heather+tom

DON’T stare into the oncoming driving lights …step aside … in time .. USE the FREE –BACS - purely UK SERVICE … as a replacement for lining the pockets of PAYPAL/EBAY with GOLD for + enduring the misery of the PAY PALS ‘almost daily changing random regime- terms and conditions ’


Direct Bank Transfer

Free to make payment to any UK bank or online banking. Contact SELLER to obtain their bank account details

..or as a SELLER -just MAIL after succesful Auction your DATA to any Buyer ... YOU'll be surprised ... most people are happy to use a FREE and EVEN MORE convenient system ...

For all YOUR 'car boot sale type items' you will Prefer Direct bank transfer.
For anything more expensive , even more so ... in your own interest .. (one day, you are the seller - as well- and pay in excess 10 % to the EBAY- money making machine... in many millions of cases only EBAY 'makes money' )




BACS (Banks Automated Clearing System)

...a safe, free, fast BRITISH BANKING - system


A BACS payment can be set up (by you) to electronically transfer money direct from your bank account to a creditor's bank account. This will involve obtaining the creditor's bank details to set up such a payment. Money from your account can then be credited to the creditor's bank account as and when you need to.



A BACS payment can usually take up to two working days to clear.



BACS payments are popular for paying staff - wages are transferred direct from the business bank account to the employees' bank accounts. In fact, today, it is the most common way for an employee to be paid in the UK - and it is the only way ... to pay for anything - on the CONTINENT .. for many ..many DECADES. (Credit Cards are only used in shops, sometimes for Travel and for Petrol..)


A BACS payment can usually take up to two working days to clear.


Of course -- the MONEY is available in your Bank account! - After 2 days!! ... Earning YOU* interest ... (or reducing overdraft - in some cases ... :-)) --

+ Instead of interest (not credited to you) by PAYPAL ... instead added to their coffers- keeping YOU and YOUR money conveniently ... Or not so conveniently separated



Since starting in 1999 with just 24 users, PayPal has grown to 72 million accountholders. The service processed payments totalling $6.2 billion during the first quarter, with 71 percent of the activity occurring in eBay's online auctions.

PayPal...The service is becoming an increasingly important source of revenue for San Jose-based eBay, which bought PayPal for $1.3 billion in 2002.

PayPal generated $233.1 million, or 23 percent, of eBay's revenue during the first quarter. (2005)

We_Laugh_Indoors

is there not a problem with ebay sellers accepting this format?

melliott1963

The only problem with BACS is this.

Most EBay invoices from sellers contain their name and address (so you can send payment to them). Now, if you were a seller, would you really be happy for a total stranger to have your name, address and bank details?

I'm sorry, but in this day and age of identity theft, I think any seller would be asking for trouble if they did this.

Just my personal opinion.

Hungry4bargains

I would very much agree melliot - certainly I never give any Personal/Bank details to any stranger. In addition paying by Paypal can give some level of protection (check on the ebay auction) and is also useful for paying for items abroad on ebay etc.

tru

You give your bank details every time you write a cheque or use a debit card

melliott1963

Yes, but you don't necessarily give your address details as well. Wherever possible, I only use cheques when paying people I know.

* In shops even if I use a cheque or debit card, they don't have any other details.
* On-line, I use a credit card which doesn't contain my bank details.
* On Ebay, wherever possible, I use Paypal which, as already mentioned can give some level of protection.

Thenotsowyzewun

This warning doesn't apply to buyers, but if you're accepting payment from someone else via Paypal beware,their seller protection is useless in many cases (because it doesn't apply) and even when it does its alot of hassle waiting for frozen funds to become available, I'd recommend Eggpay or Nochex instead (Nochex unlike Paypal will very rarely snatch money back from you after giving it to you, unlike Paypal who do so almost habitually, and Eggpay is free and simple, as many MSErs already know).

Just my 2 cents worth...

santana-mx3

Paypal is great for buyers .... but as Heather+Tom point out, awful for sellers. I'm not saying it's not convenient for sellers but it is so biased towards buyers that sellers get very little protection. Ebay put so many warnings all over to convince buyers, or even scare them, into using Paypal. By doing this, sellers who don't accept Paypal are less likely to get sales. If ebay didn't own Paypal, you might be willing to buy into their claim of trying to improve the shopping experience. To make matters worse, sellers have to foot the bill for the Paypal service (as well as already paying ebay for their listings, any optional features they have chosen and a proportion of the final sale value). Buyers who haven't tried selling don't really appreciate the costs involved.

As a buyer, I have always been happy to pay by BACS, Paypal, Nochex or any electronic form and I was always willing (in the days before Paypal surcharging was banned) to pay a seller extra to cover their Paypal fees in return for getting my goods sooner.

Fastpay used to be good (before they changed the charging structure to mimic Paypal, and then decided to scrap their service altogether).

At the moment Eggpay looks good. Of course, ebay only offer protection with Paypal so we all know which system is going to be the most succesful!

The Paypal discount codes must have been great for anyone (buyers) who managed to use them. No benefit to sellers except perhaps some buyers would have been willing to pay more, knowing they would get a discount.