bidpay.com used to be a good alternative. they dealt soley in money order transactions, the buyers use their credit cards to purchase money orders online and the sellers receive the money order in just a couple days. buyers dont like to use it because it slows things down a bit.
i too have been in the same situation as all of you. it is true that no matter what the sircumstances paypal will always side with the buyer and at no time will they ever decide in the sellers favor. they have a long list of pre plotted exuses, in my case i sold a cell phone the buyer immediatly sold it under another user name and filed a not as described complaint. mailed me back an entirely different phone about 15 years older and chewed to peices and a different brand, i sent pictures to paypal and even had the esn confirmed thru at&t that the phone was actually registered to the buyer 3 years prior to the transaction, i forwarded the links to the buyers other user name and links to the closed auction with the same phone with the same esn number. after paypal decided in his favor i appealed their decision, and was instructed that they would decide in my favor if i had a police report, i filed the police report and faxed as well as mailed it to them, and they said it wasnt acceptable since it did not say the exact words "police report" on it. the words "loves park police department incedent report" were insufficient. i threatened to sue paypal and they imediatly closed my account. as that was direct abuse of the user agreement. have any of you ever actually read it. it is rediculas it actually says that you can not ever cause any legal action against them or make any threats of it.
but in all fairness. without any buyers there would be no sellers. for every 300 posative transactions i complete i may have 1 or 2 bad ones. thats not bad odds. i do agree with paypal that as far as scammers go there are 500 deceptive sellers for every two deceptive buyers. so who really needs the protection. yes we the sellers are the ones paying their bills but it does come out of the buyers payments. the worst part of it is the negative feedback. its bad enough these people are outright robbing us but to add insult to injury is just wrong. they know they are taking advantage of us but leave the negative feedback anyways. this is because the fight we put up delays their theft process. thats why we get the negative feedback in the end, simply because we held up their precious scam. paypal is not responsible for that nor is ebay but they could atleast recognize that we were wronged and remove the feedback. and in actuality once the funds were returned then in reality the transaction never took place so why cant the feedback be removed??? heres how i got it removed...
this is good advise please read. once my ordeal was over i filed a paymant not received dispute against the fraudulant buyer, technically i never received the payment since it was returned. this actually worked. ebay had to decide in my favor because legally i did not have the payment, because thiere was no payment it had to be handled through ebay and not paypal. once the dispute was decided in my favor ebay removed the feedback from my ratings. i was returned to 100% posative but the comments still remained. i faught a couple more weeks to have the comments removed but they wouldnt budge. but atleast it got the rating removed. and once the comments were washed onto the second page of my feedback then it never haunted me again.
