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What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away

i may have over reacted... for some reason PayPal wants to drive me into a business account. Looks like the fees are the same so not sure what that is all about, I'm just suspicious by nature

If you switch to a business account which is pretty easy you get a merchant ID, enter it here, and move on. If you don't want to do that then they make it very complicated to fill out forms, etc. I gave up and switched to business, made up a bogus business name and am moving on...
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mitch2
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@rdk777
I don't get why anyone would want to fork over another unnecessary fee for what should be a free service.
Why should advertising be a “free service”? There are certainly costs associated with maintaining this site and I believe this is a business and not a charity or tax-funded government entity.  Did you ever place a for-sale ad in a newspaper - we paid for those too. In terms of advertising power, it is probably the most-viewed audio site for sales of used stuff.....I just hope they don’t screw it up.
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uberwaltz
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Mitch
I am fairly sure it is all driven by PayPal right now although Audiogon could have done a much better job of letting its members know the deal imho
mitch2
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@uberwaltz 
 
I am fairly sure it is all driven by PayPal right now
In that case, is eBay doing the same thing?
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uberwaltz
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EBay has already shown PayPal the door as they have their own " managed payments" system which all sellers will be enrolled in by 2020.
mitch2
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Ok, I don't sell there (yet) but I did recently purchase stuff there using PayPal.
eBay must have figured out they can make money off the transactions.
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