They want me to ship them my credit card!

Okay, that was funny!

I really do want this coin. I might have to use plan B......

 

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I've been there before. Unfortunately, I bit the bullet because I wanted the coin very badly and paid the extra fees, which isn't the advice I want to give!

In the end, ask yourself would you feel better paying extra for the coin (wire transfer) or living without it. In a few weeks time what will matter most - saving money now or not having the coin in your collection?

 

You send them the Credit Card via postal,
They send you back a paper slip for you to sign,
you send back the paper slip.
They send you back the coins with the CC back thru postal.

nah ... I can't see a thing that can go wrong with that even with additional various French things showing up on your credit statement before you get the card back.

 

The coin is rare but not irreplaceable. I am going to try to make the deal work although had I known, I would not have bid. I'm going to continue to be more and more selective with the companies I work with.

 

The more I think about this, the more I smell a scammer at work. They want you to mail them your credit card? The Nigerian bank account guys do better than that.

 

I think it is interesting to see what you get when you translate stuff using one of those google things or others - they don't often pick up the nuance of what you want to communicate. Because I speak a couple of other languages I have played with those translate things and found some curious variances that could cause some untoward misunderstandings with particular words, and sometimes grammatical errors.

 

My son is married to a Polish woman. You ought to see how google translates Polish to English. It doesn't even make any sense at all and some are so non-sensical they're funny.

 

Lost in translation........

So funny and so true.

Tickled to death to be here/this man scratches himself incessantly to the point of death.

 

They are not worth trying to work with. Obviously they have bad intent or no business sense. Either way, run.

 

Some European firms do not take PayPal. I don't know why. They can, and some do, say you must add 4% for paying with PayPal. Can someone explain why others won't agree to accepting PayPal for the regular price plus 4%? What is there about PayPal that some Europeans won't work with?

 

One possibility is money laundering rules. I know it seems strange that some do and others don't, but they'll be guided by the advice of their own lawyers, which will vary.

 

No, they're not scammers, as a company they've been into business for decades, and a nice one (I wish you all to have in hand one of their 80's catalogs), but, as I wrote before they live in an old fashion world

The second (see above)

Paypal belongs to a new world (see above)

That said, please don't get the feeling that only USA are a civilized country : we do have electricity, cars, ATM, computers, and even Coca-Cola and Mc Donald's (even though we could easily live without the two last), and many people here are already living in the 21st century

Q

 

Hehe, in both France and the US those quaint old things called checks are still used. Well, transferring money from one bank account to another is pretty much standard in Europe (specifically, in the Single Euro Payments Area), and I do it all the time. Now I don't use eBay, so I am not that worried about possibly dealing with places that want to rip me off. With dealers who I am familiar with (or who sell via ma-shops for example) paying via transfer is as safe for me as a credit card payment.

Don't have a problem with an extra fee being charged when a customer insists on using PayPal. Provided that other means of payment, which do not require having an account with one specific company, are accepted.

Christian

 

I haven't used a cheque in years - hae an account but only use the debit part of it or pay electronically. Used to write 20-30 of them a month for bill pay, groceries etc but not anymore.

 

That is true, the use of cheks has dramaticcaly felt down the last few years. I more and more use bank transfer and credit card

As a side note, at the last Gemini auction I asked whether I might pay with a single use virtual credit card, which they had never heard about !
A very useful device where, via a simple procedure, your bank generates full credit card informations (CC number, expiry date and control number) which can be used only once and only for the amount asked : no one can use it again, should they hijack your account at this precise moment.
They told me being willing to do further investigation about that

Q

 

I use them regularly, too. I believe they behave exactly the same as a "regular" credit card number for the merchant, but I'm not certain about that.

 

this type of stuff and shady headaches keeps reaffirming me not to ever buy outside of Vcoins and anything from overseas.

 

My last two payments to auction houses: European-wire transfer; Domestic-check (to avoid payment fees).