S3D PayPal

[ThreeDeKen@xxxxxxx]

I have two very irate sellers whom I tried to pay by way of PayPal (neither 
of them were signed up with PP at the time that PP charged my credit card and 
then made a deposit in a quasi escrow account for the sellers).  PP's pages 
(if I may call them that) loaded so slowly that the sellers were irritated 
before they got to any processing page.  Then they were asked to give PP 
their bank account numbers and/or their credit card numbers in order to get 
their money.  Neither of them mentioned anything about being offered the 
opportunity to have a money order mailed to them rather than having the money 
deposited into their bank account  (an option clearly spelled out in PP's FAQ 
page) or, after having opened an account with PP, having the money deposited 
into their account as a credit.  Both of them declined to give PP the 
information asked for in the interactive form, exited from PP's website, 
emailed me and asked me to remit to directly to them.  Bear in mind that my 
credit card has already been charged for the items in each of these two 
auctions.  The clincher:  I have tried to get a response from PP on this, by 
way of their interactive Customer Service page; none of my emails to them 
have been answered.

I must apologize for the length of this; but, as DrT knows from personal 
experience, I have suggested to those sellers of high-ticket items that they 
consider PP as an alternative to direct payments so that people like me who 
can't accommodate cash outlays for high-ticket items (a relative term) can 
use a credit card and not have to bypass bidding.  He sold a ViewMaster 
projector a short time ago for somewhere around $360 and then chided us for 
not picking it up at such a bargain.  I would gladly have paid that price but 
could not do so because George does not handle charge-card transactions.  
This is not to be construed as a complaint, but merely as an example of why 
sellers should consider the added potential for higher prices (warranted or 
not) for their high-ticket items.

I strayed a bit ;-)  but I'll close with this:  PP (with whom I am signed up) 
works flawlessly if both the buyer and seller are signed up for their 
Internet payment services or if a potential recipient of funds completes the 
process of signing up so that the "escrow" funds can be properly transferred. 
 It is my opinion that eBay's startup payment service, as announced 3-1, will 
be subject to some of the same problems; a situation that should be taken 
into consideration when this kind of payment option is considered by either 
or both the seller and buyer. - threedeken