Hi everyone, smee nice to see you here, welcome, and waves to all, yes I do that as well, I am not so worried about whether people pay by bank deposit or paypal, paypal is convenient, but above still applies, usually i am buying something and mainly that lately so the paypal funds are fine and on the positive a bank transfer to another country would cost, $22.00 through by bank and I dont get charged that by Paypal so thats a plus, BUT, say the last week or two i sold a number of books overseas, the buyer expects the books sent post haste and we are already dealing with much higher postage rates, they expect them fast, the total postage costs (and all paid me by Paypal with one exception) were over $200, one book set alone was $84.00 just for postage, the seller is expected to wear that, cover it and wait the 3 days or so for the money to hit the bank later and for all that we pay a fee to Paypal?
At least apparently Paymate dont play with the money on the money markets and make us wait, although noone pays through paymate because there is a small fee for using it or was last time I looked.
I just think why not be fair, become an EFT code member, dont put decpetive messages on checkout, ADD the others like Paymate and give them equal billing on checkout etc. Yes its a great service, but its not cash, cash is real money, and whay if they (Paypal) can get local rates at councils paid through Paypal didnt they focus on getting Aussie Post to accept Paypal by now? At least then we could use our Paypal money (uncleared) to pay for things, but of course Aussie Post prolly dont want to get paid by Paypal and have to also cop a merchant fee.