New Scheme For Card Sellers To Save Money

storm888

Everybody here knows that Google Checkout cannot be
offered as a payment method within EBAY listings.

I guess everybody also knows that GC is free for ALL of 2007.
The 2008 rate will be 2% plus 20-cents.

For the past several weeks, thousands of sellers on EBAY
have been experimenting with a simple way to bypass
the EBAY prohibition against GC. Many of the tech sites are
talking about it. Even EBAY's boards have several threads.

Here is one way to make it work:


Remove your PP-email addy and uncheck the PP box in the sell your item form.


You can use some facsimile of the following lingo in the body copy of your listing:


"We accept payments through both PayPal and our own credit-card merchant account.
Customers who pay via PayPal must have their orders shipped to a confirmed address.
Customers using any other form of payment may have their orders shipped to the
address of their choice. Please do not use the EBAY checkout. An invoice will be emailed
to you, and you can select the payment method of your choice."


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Your "credit-card merchant account" = Google Checkout

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After a sale, simply pull the buyer's email addy and invoice directly through GC.

Large volume sellers can save huge money this year. GC is really taking-off
and more and more buyers are using it. From the buyers' view, it works just
like any credit-card processor they are used to using online.

Thus far, EBAY's TOS has not been modified to defeat this solution. It is
not expected that it will be.

NOTE: You will lose the the PP symbol in your listings, if you follow the above instructions.
At this time, this appears to be necessary to defeat the auto-invoice, but many people are
working on other solutions. (I am going to try to disable the "send invoice" in preferences,
to see if that will work, and retain the PayPal symbol. So far, when I remove the PP email
and leave the PP box checked in the SYI form, the form keeps asking for the addy.)


google dumps the cash into your sweep account. Chargebacks are handled between
the seller and the credit-card company.

ZERO fees for ALL of 2007.

f2tornado

I think it is just a matter of time before Google gets in on the auction act. It has GC ready and is rumored to be preparing a competing site to eBay. If this happens Google would likely lowball eBay's fee schedule and eBay will have no choice but to adapt to the market... better servcice and/or lower fees.

Google Auctions?

storm888

"I think it is just a matter of time before Google gets in on the auction act."

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I wish it was going to happen, but I doubt that it will.