No response yet to the letter I sent snail-mail to PayPal about this. Sadly, ebay and PayPal are still married. There are few, if any, other payment options for small sellers like me. I'm a throwback to the early days of ebay (eBay, back then) when it was more like a huge yard sale (tag sale, flea market, swap meet...whatever you call 'em where you are). Just an individual wanting to make a few extra bucks from unwanted things, looking for a wide audience. In those days, pre-PayPal, we used money orders and even accepted personal checks. Sure it took a few days for the seller to get the funds. But ebay had a simpler fee structure with lower fees, and there no fees to payment processors who can change what they charge at will. If I were to say that I only accept money orders as payment, what do you think the chances are I'd ever make another sale? Until ebay is willing to authorize other payment methods convenient for small fry, it looks like my only options are to continue to accept being robbed by fees or stop selling on ebay. And there aren't many good alternative selling sites.
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