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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
minorl
1,016 posts
 
correction:  now requiring sellers.....
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uberwaltz
13,381 posts
 
Audiogon WILL allow sellers to accept other forms of payment besides PayPal ONLY if you become a registered business user here on Audiogon.
Then you can state you accept check, cash etc.
However as this involves a monthly fee to Audiogon that's pretty useless IMHO.
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sfseay
496 posts
 
My feeling is PayPal will use business accounts sales data to eventually report uncollected sales tax to the state you live in.  Also, audio mart has worked very well for me for over $30,000.00 in sales.  Not sure why someone would make up a story about them being a poor choice unless they were banned for fraud or deceptive ads.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
A little paranoid, eh? 😳
mitch2
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@uberwaltz 
Audiogon WILL allow sellers to accept other forms of payment besides PayPal ONLY if you become a registered business user here on Audiogon.
When was this communicated?  Did I miss another memo?
I thought the "registered business user" was a PayPal thing.  I was not aware that is a classification by Audiogon.
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