Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Bob
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I can't give you advice on how to best pay, but Skrill is what used to be known as Moneybookers. It's the European version of PayPal. I've never use Skrill, but I refused to use Moneybookers. Don't know if Skrill works the same, but back in the Moneybookers days, sellers preferred Moneybookers because most of the fees were incurred by the buyer (i.e., sender) rather than the seller (receiver). It never really caught on in the US.
There was an issue with US banks not being allowed to send non-US currency as late as a couple of years ago, but I think that may have been resolved. Either way, if you use Skrill, read the fine print because it does operate a little differently from PayPal -- don't assume the PayPal rules are the same as the Skrill rules.
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Hi Everyone;
I looked into moneyboogers, a while ago so I could ditch PayPal because it used to be owned by Feebay,
whom I dislike intensely. One of the questions they asked in their electronic form was My Social Security
number. I replied that unless you are employing me to work for you, you ain't gittin' it jack***!!!!
So I told the seller I wanted to cancel the sale and buy from someone else.
Sellers who only accept one form of payment are no better than Feebay who tried the scheme that sellers
could only accept PayPal, no checks or other forms of payment. When they tried to pull that crap in
Australia, they were told that policy was against antitrust laws or something like that. The Australian
government made them accept any form of payment from Australian's or they would be banned in the
land down-under!!!!
Just rantin'....
TuskenRaider
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If it's a nominal amount cash usually works well. I've never had a foreign seller reject cash and it was the only way to pay in the 80's (everyone in the world apparently has access to US cash).
Not sure how the banking laws are in France but at least in NYS if you can find a bank that will take a foreign check there is usually a fee involved (usually $25). My husband's sister works for a major bank and they stopped accepting foreign checks a couple of years ago, even for "preferred" commercial customers. Wire transfers are no problem but no paper checks - no exceptions. Laws in response to the 9/11 incident have made many bank processing functions very time consuming and expensive.
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05:11:52pm
I never use personal cheques. If I don't use Paypal, I sent a postal money order. Before the days of Paypal and the early days of eBay before electronic payment methods were available, I always used postal money orders and all the eBay sellers always wrote down to make sure that it was an INTERNATIONAL postal money order. The fees were cheaper than bank orders and everything is trackable.
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I have used Skrill to send money to South Africa. It was a bit of a hassle to setup but once setup it worked fine.
Regards ... Tim.
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Finally! I took about two hours over two days, but I managed, at last, to open a Skrill account, transfer money to it from my MasterCard account, and then pay a Delcampe seller for two postcards that I won. What an incredible pain in the butt. I practically need Anusol! It didn't help that the seller hasn't answered two messages that I sent to him, in both English and French (he only speaks/reads/writes French, apparently). Anyway, thanks to those who responded to my original query about Skrill.
Bob
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Skrill does not have buyer protection as paypal does. If the seller takes the money and run, you will lost it.
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Had issues with Moneybookers/Skrill involving money in their possession or something like that which I had to jump through a bajillion hoops to get back.
Bruce
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I have just won two auction lots on Delcampe from a seller in France. He apparently only accepts payment by "Skrill," which I have never heard of, or by personal cheque. Does anyone have any advice on how best to pay him?
Bob
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re: Payment by "Skrill"?
I can't give you advice on how to best pay, but Skrill is what used to be known as Moneybookers. It's the European version of PayPal. I've never use Skrill, but I refused to use Moneybookers. Don't know if Skrill works the same, but back in the Moneybookers days, sellers preferred Moneybookers because most of the fees were incurred by the buyer (i.e., sender) rather than the seller (receiver). It never really caught on in the US.
There was an issue with US banks not being allowed to send non-US currency as late as a couple of years ago, but I think that may have been resolved. Either way, if you use Skrill, read the fine print because it does operate a little differently from PayPal -- don't assume the PayPal rules are the same as the Skrill rules.
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Hi Everyone;
I looked into moneyboogers, a while ago so I could ditch PayPal because it used to be owned by Feebay,
whom I dislike intensely. One of the questions they asked in their electronic form was My Social Security
number. I replied that unless you are employing me to work for you, you ain't gittin' it jack***!!!!
So I told the seller I wanted to cancel the sale and buy from someone else.
Sellers who only accept one form of payment are no better than Feebay who tried the scheme that sellers
could only accept PayPal, no checks or other forms of payment. When they tried to pull that crap in
Australia, they were told that policy was against antitrust laws or something like that. The Australian
government made them accept any form of payment from Australian's or they would be banned in the
land down-under!!!!
Just rantin'....
TuskenRaider
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05:00:36pm
re: Payment by "Skrill"?
If it's a nominal amount cash usually works well. I've never had a foreign seller reject cash and it was the only way to pay in the 80's (everyone in the world apparently has access to US cash).
Not sure how the banking laws are in France but at least in NYS if you can find a bank that will take a foreign check there is usually a fee involved (usually $25). My husband's sister works for a major bank and they stopped accepting foreign checks a couple of years ago, even for "preferred" commercial customers. Wire transfers are no problem but no paper checks - no exceptions. Laws in response to the 9/11 incident have made many bank processing functions very time consuming and expensive.
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05:11:52pm
re: Payment by "Skrill"?
I never use personal cheques. If I don't use Paypal, I sent a postal money order. Before the days of Paypal and the early days of eBay before electronic payment methods were available, I always used postal money orders and all the eBay sellers always wrote down to make sure that it was an INTERNATIONAL postal money order. The fees were cheaper than bank orders and everything is trackable.
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re: Payment by "Skrill"?
I have used Skrill to send money to South Africa. It was a bit of a hassle to setup but once setup it worked fine.
Regards ... Tim.
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re: Payment by "Skrill"?
Finally! I took about two hours over two days, but I managed, at last, to open a Skrill account, transfer money to it from my MasterCard account, and then pay a Delcampe seller for two postcards that I won. What an incredible pain in the butt. I practically need Anusol! It didn't help that the seller hasn't answered two messages that I sent to him, in both English and French (he only speaks/reads/writes French, apparently). Anyway, thanks to those who responded to my original query about Skrill.
Bob
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03:13:42pm
re: Payment by "Skrill"?
Skrill does not have buyer protection as paypal does. If the seller takes the money and run, you will lost it.
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03:51:06pm
re: Payment by "Skrill"?
Had issues with Moneybookers/Skrill involving money in their possession or something like that which I had to jump through a bajillion hoops to get back.
Bruce
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