Lot of tinfoil hats in here.
If you want cash on glass you limit buyers. I use PP friends and family all the time to buy and sell. Never an issue. Make sure the buyer/seller is reputable and stop stressing.
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Lot of tinfoil hats in here.
If you want cash on glass you limit buyers. I use PP friends and family all the time to buy and sell. Never an issue. Make sure the buyer/seller is reputable and stop stressing.
Quoted from grantopia:Pretty much this. It's a "tinfoil hat" until they take your money back. Happened to me once, haven't used it since, won't use it again.
Who's "they"? Reputable buyers and sells off of pinside or randoms the accents and google phone accounts off of mr_pinball classifieds?
If you have half a brain you can avoid getting burned. Every form of payment has potential for scams other than cash on glass (could still be counterfeit) but you drastically limit your buying and selling options with cash unless you drive hours.
In the next decade I wouldn't be surprised if we were a cashless society.
Quoted from grantopia:In my case, PayPal took it and returned it to the buyer/scammer. I sold some stuff on Ebay, shipped with both insurance and tracking. The buyer claimed with PayPal it never arrived. I submitted my receipt with their zip code, my credit card statement, and the delivery conformation. Since I didn't send it signature confirmed there was "not enough evidence" to deny his claim and the money was returned and my stuff was gone. That was the last time I sold anything on Ebay and took PayPal from someone I didn't know.
It's not about what you do unfortunately, it's about the case the other person can make and the luck of the draw with PayPal who is notorious for siding with buyers. I'll take my chances with the counterfeit cash over some dude in a call center making 10 bucks an hour reading a script at PayPal who doesn't have a dog in the fight.
I'm honestly not trying to start world war 3 over PayPal, other people taking it has no impact on my life so go nuts, but just don't mistake taking steps to protect yourself mislead you into thinking there's a 0% chance you'll lose money when you're not the only party involved.
Ebay is your problem, not PayPal. They screwed me and I fought them. I posted a thread about it and I won.
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