I remember a time when eBay allowed items to be paid with cash and cheques. This would have solved all of my problems but I guess paypal can't make money that way so ebay needed to make a monopoly on the payment process. I find it interesting that eBay Australia allows for bank deposit, cheques and money orders, escrow, and credit cards because Australian Competition & Consumer Commission forced them to. Instead here in the Land of the Free we get to deal with Paypal Buyers who steal a neighbors WIFI or use a Proxy, buy a bunch of Digital Goods on eBay, and then claim they did not authorize the purchases. I would ALWAYS take money orders or cheques before Paypal.
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