Although the Paypal transaction page allows the seller to reject an echeque payment, Ebay rules (so I noticed after rejecting such a payment) say that a seller must accept echeques. So how is it fair that a buyer, having accepted a seller's reasonable requirement to be paid within three days, can - by paying by echeque which takes from 7-10 days to clear - circumvent the contract they have entered into with the seller to pay within three days of the end of the listing? Surely under such circumstances, echeque payment is late payment?
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