Originally posted by mandasmom:
95% of my customers use paypal. If you refuse to accept payments from them, you will definitely limit your customer base, because as one poster said-everyone wants their items as quickly as possible. I include the shipping calculator in all of my auctions, so everyone knows right up front what the costs will be-there are no surprises unless they didn't use the calculator, which is just stupid on their part. I personally am very leery of bidding on an auction where the seller says they will give the cost after you've won. I don't agree with grossly inflating postage (besides the fact that it will get you in trouble with ebay) but I personally don't feel badly if I make a dollar or two on shipping. JMO.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree! And I think sellers might specify the "handling" fees before the auction, so the buyers can't complain later. Once I wrote to the seller and asked if that was the real shipping/handling cost because I thought it might be MORE, I am always concerned about that. I complained about the Marisol outfit and the little mouse doll because they were so tiny, small boxes, and the s/h costs were more than the double of actual shipping costs...

Paypal is the only way I can pay, bidpay is not working any more. I used, a long time ago, to send very well concealed cash but I thank paypal because that way it was very risky and took ages to arrive... And I can only pay with paypal through credit card, not bank account, so I am willing to pay any fees concerning this, if the seller specify this.

I am soooo happy today, two dolls arrived!!! Perfect and beautiful Josefina and Felicity!!! I need to fix my digital camera!!

Ana Claudia
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ January 24, 2006 05:34 PM: Message edited by: brazilian_girl ]</font>