Re: [NTLK] [FS or T] Mac and newton related gear

I use ebay and paypal but I have a hate for both.

Paypal just facilitate the transactions so if you ever need there
help they wash
there hands, I have been bitten twice by them from both sides as a
seller and buyer.

I had to claim for a game that some one didn't send, I was covered by
there buyer protection
and I got the grand old sum if 25p out of £15 claim.

I then sold an ipod, paypal excepted a stoled credit-card then took
the money back of me.... lost
the payment and an ipod. And they did bugger all, any other bank
would have got the police involved.

On 15 Dec 2006, at 09:58, Clayton Mitchell wrote:

> Just my political leanings. I have a real problem with the way ebay
> does business. as long as they get their listing costs they could
> give a rats ass about the experience each party has with
> transaction. I also find most auctions to be dishonest in their
> pricing, with shipping costs hidden, misleading, and abnormally high
> so as to obfuscate the actual price. I also have issues with sniping
> software which make auctions a farce until the last 3-5 seconds of
> the auction. I realize that a lot of people find ebay to be the holy
> grail of capitalism, but I feel that the way ebay does business
> demeans the participants. Business should hold a responsibility to
> their customers not distain. Paypal is just an extension of ebay,
> and only put in place to avoid credit card charges on ebay's end.
> Smart business move on ebay's part but another way to squeeze every
> dime from customers. Paypal is for all intents and purposes an
> online bank but yet has no regulation to govern it, not very customer
> friendly. So I vote with my dollars and avoid ebay.
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Goodwin, Greg P. wrote:
>
>>> I do not do eBay or paypal, both are the decline of the western
>>> civilization.
>>
>> LOL!! And why is that?
>>
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