My first problem w/ ebay came up... needs your advices

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Mon Apr 23 18:13:24 2001

>John Foust wrote:

> At 03:48 PM 4/23/01 -0400, Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com> wrote:
> >On the other hand, what about a vendor who specifies that payment
> >via Master Card/Visa, Money Order, etc. are acceptable, and later
> >in the text also adds that PayPal is allowed as well, but never says
> >that Master Card/Visa MUST be used via PayPal.
> I think I've had a bidder confused because PayPal's logo GIF
> includes the MC/VISA logos. I just pasted PayPal's HTML into
> my description in order to get the click-me PayPal logo, but it
> caused PayPal's MC/VISA logos to appear, too.

Jerome Fine replies:

In this case, the Master Card/VISA was listed UP FRONT in the payment
methods without PayPal being even mentioned. Usually, if a vendor wants
to allow PayPal, then payment options says to see in the text and NO
plastic is mentioned at all since PayPal allows more than just plastic.

But this vendor seemed to think that because PayPal was mentioned in the
text and he was in the US where PayPal is a reasonable option in most cases,
then it was OK for outside the US as well as a requirement and that PayPal
was equivalent in all aspects - which it is not - and this was before PayPal
was even allowed outside the US. Now, although PayPal is available outside
the US, there are extra charges to use it even if, so I understand, the purchaser
pays in US dollars.

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 18:13:24 BST