[geeks] PayPal alternative offering $25 free cash

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 14, 2008, at 15:12 , Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On May 14, 2008, at 09:47 , Chad McAuley wrote:
>>> I haven't tried it out yet, but I know a lot of people on the  
>>> various buy/sell/trade/deals forums I occasionally read have been  
>>> going nuts about this for a while.  Looking back through my list  
>>> archive, I also see that I mentioned it [0] in the UnPaypal thread  
>>> back in February.  :)
>> The only downside is that a lot of people won't deal with you if  
>> you use something besides Paypal.
>> I put about 10 things up for sale earlier this year and none sold.
>> I re-listed with Paypal support and 8 of them sold.
>> Kinda sucks.
>
> Yeah, but that's not a problem for folks like us shipping hardware  
> back and forth without eBay involved, is it?  :)

It is for me.

I sell things on eBay and it would take a lot more effort to do it any  
other way.

I use Amazon to sell books.  Yes, they rip you off, but most of the  
time the alternative is that I end up throwing the stuff away because  
I can't move it otherwise.

-- 
"Where some they sell their dreams for small desires."