A person can be elderly, sick and ...ignorant. There was no intent to cheat Ebay of fees. NOW I realise and have learnt painful lessons costing thousands of dollars! I don't even know what OP stands for. I didn't realise that paying for a listing wasn't like a Buy Now - I didn't realise or think about the fees issue or have intent to cheat anyone. Which is more than I can say for the 5 so far in just the last few days, sellers of Thermomix machies (not a luxury for me but due to losing my teeth in a car accident). Ebay need to be alerting unsuspecting buyers - they probably do somewhere about new seller listers - but the mass of written communications these days has everyone, not just the sick and elderly - in my case recovering from major ear surgery, my husbands heart attack and the fire (the reason I was trying to replace this machine) and all this in the past month or so! ..this mass of written words, overwhelms everyone in this communication age. I also trusted PayPal and Ebays supply of this sellers non ebay email address. I was communicating 9 times with them via the Ebay supplied email so just did not think about them losing fees. The real issue is to avoid more an.d more people in bad situations, eg. pensions like me, from falling in to these costly pits. Surely it is simple for PayPal to have a red warning for new time, ignorant people like me to see when they are having trouble executing a payment, warnings that make it loud and clear that they will not be covered by F & F payments. It really is a case of awareness and I have contacted the radio and current affair programs. My own ignorance and regret should not stop me from helping some one else in a similar position. I thought, foolishly now, that as I had been supplied the 2nd personal email address with Paypal for this Aaron Moran, that that could somehow become a 'friend '. SO silly of me. Old and sick people should just suspend jumping in waters they know little about. And there's a lot of us out there, struggling in a foreign world and not slick IT savvy young people.
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