posted on December 7, 2000 04:38:29 PM new
I just visited the AuXpal site and they've changed their registration process after freezing registration since last night. They're no longer asking for PayPal passwords and instead they ask for the usual information like name and street address since they no longer pull that from PayPal's info.
I don't think they're even asking for credit card numbers.
Unfortunately this kind of blows the whole concept of the site since they can no longer facilitate instant PayPal payments, but I hope they can salvage it in a different way.
Instead of saying auction payments will be automatic (although there's a stray statement about that on their "About" page), they say, "To participate, you must be a registered member of PayPal. All winning auctions should be paid through the PayPal system."
posted on December 7, 2000 05:08:09 PM new
Well after thinking about this, I am not sure we want constant, instant payments - the world of instant payment has really played havoc with our packing department - and created customers who want their items the day they pay for them -
Think I'll just skip this for a while....
But glad to hear they survived, and did make the change.
Personally, I'd like to see PayPal open their own site, with their customer base that would be GREAT!
posted on December 7, 2000 05:45:57 PM new
To be honest this doesn't stop the instant payment to paypal for sales made there all they ever really needed was your paypal email to get payment to your paypal account from a buyer in 30 mins.
The only thing anyone need to get money into your paypal account is your email address and a paypal account of there own the only reason your paypal password is needed for is getting money out of your account.
Only part of this that will be messed up is a way to verify sellers and buyers registering and verification that they have a paypal account.
If paypal would have indorsed this auction site and worked with them it would be the frist auction site requireing more the one form of ID verfication for buyers and sellers.
They would have all verfide not only with Credit card info billing address bank account verification once they have your bank info they have access to social security number and paypal verfication of buyer and sellers not only that but all this verfication Info this site required had many people excited about giveing it.
If Ebay suddenly asked all this info from buyers and sellers there would be a mad riot.
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
[ edited by dman3 on Dec 7, 2000 05:49 PM ]
To be honest this doesn't stop the instant payment to paypal for sales made there all they ever really needed was your paypal email to get payment to your paypal account from a buyer in 30 mins.
You are forgetting something. Yes, they only need your PayPal email address to get a payment into your account, but, they need "access" to the buyers account to initiate the payment. They cant do this without the password.
Without the instant payment feature there is really very little difference between them and any other auction site out there, and there's a lot of them to choose from.
As far as the PayPal only concept goes, that really limits your options (including your potential customer base).
What happens is PayPal were to freeze your account for a couple of months. Your screwed on AuXpal (the only form of payment is PayPal)...
[ edited by outoftheblue on Dec 7, 2000 09:22 PM ]
posted on December 7, 2000 09:43:22 PM new
I question the wisdom of putting too much faith/time/effort into an enterprise that obviously was not too-well thought-through in the first place. What a fiasco.
