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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...
herman
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.
herman OP
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I'm with Mitch too, we can debate all day whether or not the fees charged here are worth it, but the idea that this should be a free service is way off base
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uberwaltz
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Well ebay and paypal got divorced a few years back and I am sure ebay figured out they could make huge money off payments as well as sales fees.
They have undercut paypal rates by a whopping 0.1%, lordy I am going to save so much with ebay……...

Obviously somebody has to pay for a service but the switch to business account is not the right way to handle this.
A quick google search shows Audiogon is not the only site that paypal have targeted to switch over.

However this was handled badly by both paypal and audiogon imho.
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