Re: OT: Feedback Extortion

["Robert L Bass" <Sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"G. Morgan" wrote:
>
> Yeah, it's great for buyers (always has been).  They have been alienating
> the
> infrequent sellers like myself more and more.  The final insult for me was
> when they decided to hold my Pay pal funds from the sale proceeds because I
> don't have 100 feedback yet.  I use my Paypal debit card usually to pay for
> the shipping, now I'm out of pocket for shipping (and the item) until either
> the buyer leaves positive feedback or I call Pay pal after the item ships
> and
> they can confirm it's delivery.

That's not a whole lot worse than processing credit cards the old way.  We pay
for the item as soon as it's ordered.  Then we wait until we have the tracking
number before we can charge the card.  Once the charge (called a "ticket") is
processed it takes several more days to receive the funds from the CC
processor, even though the processing firm is a division of my own bank.