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Paypal payments.... as a gift
VC:
As someone who takes a huge amount of paypal payments daily I keep seeing this "paypal as gift" request appearing more and more on forum sales.
I personally think the practice should be stopped.
Theres no reason whatsoever that the paypal fee's cant be incorporated into peoples prices when they advertise, even when i sell on the forum i never ask for it to be as a gift, or even if need be ask the buyer to pay the paypal fees upon checkout.
Paying someone as a gift gives the buyer absolutely no protection when purchasing and stacks all the power to the seller. Buying on forums can be risky enough imho.
I may be out of line having a winge about it, but i simply dont see why it should be allowed or requested by the seller if they are selling above board, the fee's arent that scary and even then like ive said it can be incorporated into the price of the item your selling.
simply put, i think sales that request gift payments should be stopped.
thoughts?
JackG:
--- Quote from: VC on March 09, 2012, 09:09:34 am ---As someone who takes a huge amount of paypal payments daily I keep seeing this "paypal as gift" request appearing more and more on forum sales.
I personally think the practice should be stopped.
Theres no reason whatsoever that the paypal fee's cant be incorporated into peoples prices when they advertise, even when i sell on the forum i never ask for it to be as a gift, or even if need be ask the buyer to pay the paypal fees upon checkout.
Paying someone as a gift gives the buyer absolutely no protection when purchasing and stacks all the power to the seller. Buying on forums can be risky enough imho.
I may be out of line having a winge about it, but i simply dont see why it should be allowed or requested by the seller if they are selling above board, the fee's arent that scary and even then like ive said it can be incorporated into the price of the item your selling.
simply put, i think sales that request gift payments should be stopped.
thoughts?
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I agree, for the sake of a few extra £ your protected and can stop yourself from loosing out on yor hard earned,
I actually added the PayPal fees onto a payment I made earlier in the month
Mandy:
I don't agree that it should be stopped altogether, if the buyer doesn't trust the seller enough or are buying an expensive item, the buyer can always opt to pay the extra fees to cover themselves. The buyer is/ should be aware that a gift payment has no protection but should ultimately be up to them to decide if they want to risk it or not. If the buyer doesn't feel comfortable sending payment as a gift, I'm sure the seller won't mind or be offended if they wanted to send it properly and pay the fees. I think the buyer should always choose how they want to go about it. If you were the seller, I'd doubt it would be your main concern whether the buyer is protected or not. :smiley:
Kregiel:
totally agree here! has purchased a couple of items here and paid by paypal but was asked to make additional payment due to fees which I did but didn't like it, price should be all in and if paypal option was not acceptable I wouldn't go aheady with purchase...
Paul
Kregiel:
Mandy,
The option stuff would be great only if always communicated to the buyer. For example seller might not communicate to buyer that by going pay as gift he waives his protection and offer lower price. Also some prices would include paypal fees and others not so need to constantly check what's included and what;s not to make it comparable.
For ease my view would be if selling it's always commercial activity so always include paypal fees in. Otherwise all sales adds will have to have fees included/ not included description added
Paul
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