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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Ok, so if I don't want PayPal merchant status  do I need to quit selling here?  Without PayPal,  it seems I will only be able to accept money orders as payment for stuff I sell here.  However, even money orders do not afford the same protections as PayPal did.  

There continue to be new listings here every day and even though there seems to be more business-sellers here than in the past, there are still private individuals using the site.  I wonder if all of them have accepted the merchant status or if they may have some of the problems reported here when they finally conduct their transactions?

I have a bunch of stuff to sell and was waiting until the end of summer to take advantage of the historically better fall sales environment.  I guess I will try something small to see how things go here without accepting PayPal as a payment method.  I will probably start listing at USAM since they have indicated their agreement with PayPal does not require folks to accept merchant status, however that might change....seems like maybe an opportunity for another PayPal-like entity to step.
Just follow the work around instructions that Agon gave. I did and it worked beautifully.  Took me 3 minutes.  All good.  
I went back and re-read the post below from Admin but I do not see any "work around" instructions. I also looked at the Audiogon "Safe Payment Methods" article that discusses PayPal and still nothing.  Can you point me to where I can find the work around instructions. Thanks
@mitch2  Send me an email to support@audiogon.com, Attention: Tammy and I will send you the instructions. 
I tried to hook up with Stripe, and got into a mess. Seems that Stripe collects it's user fees by means of a third party, "NEXWAY". Probably by checking a box unintentionally, my PP credit account was charged for $329. That got me pretty excited. I requested a full refund from NEXWAY, and it came through. Point here is, that I never saw an option for accepting or an explanation of this charge.