John10101
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:22:20 PM
Hi,
Just a question for the Ebay sellers. Do most of your buyers pay using PayPal when you offer that as an option? What percentage have you found use PayPal to pay for your items? Thanks.
John
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RainyBear
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:24:02 PM
Lately, between 70% and 80% have paid with PayPal.
I'd love for it to be 100% -- I received one check today after waiting over a week and I'm waiting for two more. This stuff could have been packed up and to its destination already.
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yisgood
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:38:17 PM
I'd say 80% use paypal. But now that I am pushing Exchangepath because it gives buyers $10 for signing up, me $5 for the first 20 and costs me nothing, the tide is turning. When I reach my $100 maximum with exchangepath, I'll start pushing payplace, which gives me $5 for each referral and again costs me nothing. Then there's Paydirect and achex. Even though I upgraded my Paypal account, I havent had to pay anything yet.
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borgt
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:40:50 PM
It's been running about 50 - 60%
That will go down. A lot of my items are small ticket and I probably won't advertise my accepting PP in those auctions.
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llama_lady
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:40:52 PM
Even though I am not happy with Paypal and took their logo off my auctions, 8 out 10 people paid through paypal anyway. (most recent auctions closed) So, should I bite my nose off to spite my face or suck this up as an expense to take off my income tax? I have chosen the later for the time being. I am looking for another alternative, but paypal is the option 70% or more of my customers are using. Should I be happy with 50% of something or 100% of nothing. I am dumb at times, but not completely stupid. I think this is called life. 
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artsnflies
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:45:29 PM
Like it or not, PP is still #1 for the time being. I'm sure eventually some other service will rise in popularity and give PP a run for the money (in this case literally) but until then give the customer what they know and want.
BTW, as to payment we'd say it's been 50/50.
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/artsnflies/
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RainyBear
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posted on September 18, 2000 01:48:20 PM
I tried to sign up for PayPlace last night and it said my credit card couldn't be verified. Oh well, so much for that idea.
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rarriffle
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posted on September 18, 2000 02:52:14 PM
Only about 50% of my buyers have paid with paypal, I wish it were higher. Four paid with paypal Friday, shipped saturday, received items and left feedback today. Great transactions for all 5 of us.
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rosiebud
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posted on September 18, 2000 02:55:12 PM
80-90% of my auctions are paid with paypal.
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macandjan
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:09:52 PM
About 2/3 are PayPal and I don't push it or try to get the bounty. In fact if a new person signs I give them the bonus as a credit. If you can't afford 25¢ amd 2% I wonder what you are selling and if you should be raising your opening bid? I have never sold anything I could not make 15% on minimum.
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jwoodcrafts
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:20:38 PM
Very few pay with it. I don't know why they don't use. They just don't. Until now I wished they would, now I am not sure.
Most send me money orders.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."---Mark Twain
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nefish
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:32:23 PM
Surprisingly only about 50%. Can't understand why I get all these money orders... PayPal is just so convenient, but I think there's a lot of nervous people out there...
~Not nefish on eBay~
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abingdoncomputers
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:40:32 PM
I have been recommending paydirect for the last month, and it's working out VERY well. My buyers seem to be very open to it, as most everyone is familiar with Yahoo. I would guestimate that around 70-80% of the customers that I've recommended it to signed up.
I just don't push PayPal anymore, but until my current auctions close I'll accept it if the buyer insists.
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RainyBear
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:40:49 PM
Yeah, it's just really freakin' annoying when people want to send a check these days. 
Kind of like sending a letter when you could send email. Can you imagine if we had to send our EOA's by mail?
[ edited by RainyBear on Sep 18, 2000 03:42 PM ]
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reddeer
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:42:13 PM
edited 'cause I felt like it
[ edited by reddeer on Sep 18, 2000 05:03 PM ]
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valerie47
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posted on September 18, 2000 03:47:05 PM
I would say at least 80% of my customers pay with Paypal. With Paypal's latest scheme I'm still debating on what to do regarding Paypal. My customers love it and I've had several tell me if I didn't accept Paypal they wouldn't have bid....
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The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary.
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CAgrrl
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posted on September 18, 2000 04:13:18 PM
0% of my customers pay with PAyPal- I don't accept it & never have. And doubt I ever will at this point.
I now accept PayDirect for both my Yahoo & Ebay auctions and I LOVE it!!!!
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tegan
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posted on September 18, 2000 04:37:06 PM
About 50% of my customers pay with paypal since I signed on with them.
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chevytr
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posted on September 18, 2000 04:53:04 PM
About 50 to 60 percent of my customers use PayPal.
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jeanyu
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:01:31 PM
30% of my sales were paypal before I gave them the old heave ho! Just wondering why you are wondering these statistics? Never to deny that paypal and credit card options offered the fastest easiest way to complete a transaction. But like I said---just wondering why you have these questions? Care to extrapolate---John10101 ?
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toomanycomics
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:09:55 PM
at ebay - about 20% used paypal until the arrival of the fees
I just recently dumped Billpoint
so tired of the changes without my knowledge.... and I log on every day!!!
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dman3
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:21:44 PM
WOW many of you get far more paying through pay pal then I do.
9 out of every 10 pay with check or money order on ebay.
and 7 of 10 on yahoo pay with check or money orders.
I Also offer payplace none have used yahoo direct no one uses ebay card service no one used yet.
only one person in over 275 auctions paid with xcom.
I have tried to sign up with exchangepath with no luck at all I never got the email to activate the account.
WWW.dman-n-company.com
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enchanted
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:23:27 PM
about 50 percent pay me with paypal
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guyuellas
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:24:53 PM
About 96% pay with paypal....
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Pantheus
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posted on September 18, 2000 05:30:37 PM
40-50% have been PayPal, with the Internationals coming in ProPay.
One thought here is that today I added up my referral bonuses - $ 215.00 since February. I don't push it, merely offer it. It'll be a cold day, before the .47 cent charges from PayPal out run that. I'm happy and sticking with them, but wish to hell they'd hire a real PR person!
Ken
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xifene
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posted on September 18, 2000 06:19:10 PM
50 - 60% pay me via Paypal. The rest are mostly money orders with some checks. I don't push it - merely mention it in my terms (along with cash, checks, money orders and BidPay).
--xifene--
http://www.auctionusers.org
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bristolman
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posted on September 18, 2000 06:46:32 PM
Between 30 & 50% of my book buyers.
Jim
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bunnicula
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posted on September 18, 2000 09:59:24 PM
About 10%--when I was still using them. If they can keep their noses clean for 3-6 months, I *might* consider using them again. I'm not holding my breath, though.
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blondestranger
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posted on September 18, 2000 11:15:09 PM
over 75% pay via paypal.
For fun, yesterday I added up my referral bonus: over 2500.00 I've attained to date.
cool!
maybe I can afford to take the hit of the newly assessed fees
deja deja deja vu believe it and it will come true!
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roxw
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posted on September 19, 2000 04:46:18 AM
At least 75% use PayPal in my auctions. I had around 4 auctions close on Saturday- they all paid with PayPal. I withdrew a portion of it with a check and paid for 2 auctions with what was left. It's just so much easier than checks or money orders- on both sides of the fence- as a buyer and seller. IMHO- I think the vast differences in percentages of PayPal users for different sellers has to be due to the types of items being sold.
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