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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 417088, member: 5629&quot;]I woulda said:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">WELL DUH!</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s my point exactly!&nbsp; You have the choice of whether or not to accept the terms.&nbsp; You say there are instances that you would, and those that you would not.&nbsp; If you really were interested in a coin, but do not accept the payment options, you always have the ability to have a &quot;meeting of the minds&quot;.&nbsp; Without such, eBay &quot;auctions&quot; would not be legal contracts.&nbsp; That is not to say that the seller must agree with it.&nbsp; You always have the option of &quot;Ask(ing) The Seller A Question&quot; and offering some form of incentive (if you win) for the seller to accept a different payment form...this is a legal contract, and your legal right to do so!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, what if you walked into a B&amp;M and wanted a coin SOOOO bad that the dealer had.&nbsp; But, the dealer would only accept a DEBIT card and only with two forms of ID.&nbsp; If you did not have the dedit card (for whatever reason...even religious or you only had a CREDIT card), would you simply walk out with a cloud over your head?&nbsp; Of course not!&nbsp; You would try to make a deal with the dealer to accept a check with maybe three forms of ID or even cold hard cash!&nbsp; Yet, it is still the store owner&#039;s right to accept what payment he will for goods not yet transfered...there is no legal contract to buy/sell, only the intent.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, with eBay &quot;auctions&quot;, these are legal contracts, not intent!&nbsp; That means the debt has already been agreed to and the terms outlined as to payment of such debt.&nbsp; It is the time before you bid that there is intent, and this is the time that you and the dealer negotiate any terms of the contract that are unacceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to consider as well, have you ever wondered exactly where eBay gets their numbers?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ask yourself...where do they get that figure??&nbsp; Really think about it.&nbsp; It&#039;s a lot like propaganda spewing over the radio in my town that &quot;90% of Powell High School parents do not support this or that&quot;, and yet, a grave majority of these parents that I communicate with were never even polled on such issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numbers can mean just about anything.&nbsp; Really think about something here.&nbsp; PayPal disputes are obviously NOT included in their calculations!&nbsp; Disputes conducted via PayPal are handled via PayPal...NOT eBay!&nbsp; Anybody who has dealt with trying to get a PayPal refund notices this right away.&nbsp; Not only that, but eBay wrote that comment in such a way as to not compare it to anything.&nbsp; It does not say 80% more likely to file <i>than a payment made via PayPal</i>...it simply says 80% more likely to file...no mention of what other payment formats it is comparing to.&nbsp; There are a number of other forms of payment that are neither check/MO nor PayPal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be careful of the propaganda, and read through into the bare facts of what is said.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just out of curiosity, though, you make the comment &quot;I&#039;m just saying it&#039;s nice to see them putting a stop to checks/M.O.s&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, if you do not conduct business via check/MO, why is this &quot;nice&quot;?&nbsp; Is it the expectation that the sellers you normally would not have bought from will now be forced to accept your preference of payment?&nbsp; if so, I wouldn&#039;t hold my breathe to terribly long, because a majority of them very well may jump the sinking ship and go &quot;elsewhere&quot;, where ever that may be...but then again, they may not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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