posted on March 6, 2006 09:54:14 PM new
Once again, I am looking at alternative payment systems to PayPal. The payment system needs to have the capability of handling international payments.
In the past I have registered or looked in depth at:
Moneybookers
Ikobo
Stormpay
Thomas Cook Moneygram
I read here about auctionchex
Does anyone have any opinions of these services...good, bad or indifferent?
Have you tried any other payment services that you thought were worthwhile?
posted on March 7, 2006 01:09:28 AM new
To answer your question it would help if you let readers know where you are located and where your potential customers are. Otherwise there are too many variables...
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
—After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
posted on March 7, 2006 04:43:06 AM new
chimpchamp
Before you go attempting to use any of those services, you'd better make sure they are approved by eBay. If not, eBay won't even let you list and if those options appear on any of your listings, eBay will yank them. I had that I accept Auctionchex on my auction template and I found I couldn't even list the item at all.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on March 7, 2006 06:31:51 AM new
I've been accepting (and suggesting to my bidders) AuctionChex since Bidpay's termination at the end of last year. I have received multiple payments from them, and have been very pleased with their service. (although some of my bidders still complain that the system isn't quite straight-forward enough). Cheryl is right, though. Unfortunately due to eBay's tyrant-like safe payment policy... you can't advertise that you accept AuctionChex. You can only tell them about it through emails (and only ones that don't go through eBay's mail system).
posted on March 7, 2006 09:22:19 AM new
I reccomend AuctionChex. I have run about a dozen transactions thru them without issue. Because of PayPal problems I was having, I had to have payment sent to me via check. They handled it better than my postman. Check was returned to them, Eddie immediately emailed me and let me know, we found the issue and he remailed. I recieved the remailed check inside of a week.
As for how to get around eBay dipshit filters... just put:
International Bidders: PLease contact me for acceptable payment methods before bidding
in your terms. Then take it to email.
BTW - I wonder if Tiffany & Co. lawyers know of this practice. Kinda blows a mile wide hole in ebays "we are just a portal" defense.
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posted on March 7, 2006 09:39:38 AM new
I remember back then when Ebay has less items,much less,everyone sent money order or personal check,never a problem.
I have only one bad check I cannot collect and thats for 12.99.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."