Buying Online with Pay Pal... good or bad?

[jessie_k_pythons]

I have run in to Alot of people selling that wont take pay pal, only cash or money orders/money grams. Is pay pal bad or something or is this just people trying to scam?
I like pay pal and I have never had problems with it yet.

If there is something going on with PP that I wasnt informed of please let me know...

I just dont know of to many people sending 6000$ in cash through the mail... a little odd if you ask me....

[Blu Mongoose]

I have had no problems yet. Just try and check rep. of seller before sending payment. There may be a fee for sending money??

[Aric]

I would much rather to send the money through paypal, sending cash in my opinion is a good way to get ripped off. Send the cash the seller drops off the face of the earth and you never hear from them again and you have lost money.

[joepythons]

I have run in to Alot of people selling that wont take pay pal, only cash or money orders/money grams. Is pay pal bad or something or is this just people trying to scam?
I like pay pal and I have never had problems with it yet.

If there is something going on with PP that I wasnt informed of please let me know...

I just dont know of to many people sending 6000$ in cash through the mail... a little odd if you ask me....

I love paypal its safe and secure for both buyer and seller.If someone is selling something for $6000 and they ask you to send cash,i smell TUNA!!!!

[jessie_k_pythons]

Ok that is what I thought... I contacted that girl about that 400GR Albino and she refuses pay pal and only takes cash or money order... she said something about Pay Pal not being safe .... I just want to see if you all felt the same as me
Thanks guys/ girls

[jessie_k_pythons]

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Im not new to the reptile world ...just new to the people in it.

[Aric]

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yep.

[Entropy]

I guess I'll be the bad one here.
I refuse to use paypal, there is really no protection offered and you'd be suprised as to what their TOS states (though how many have really read the whole thing?). I have been screwed by paypal more then once and still have a large sum frozen because paypal says my account is linked to an account with a negative balance. Problem is this was my first and only paypal account. So, I call paypal to ask more information about this other account but they "can't disclose any information due to privacy laws".
Not to mention that Paypal has numerous lawsuits against it right now and they have very little security. Honestly I cringe when people say they keep large sums in their paypal accounts... no. Learned too harsh of a lesson for me to ever say anything good about them. I suggest you do some google searches and see what you dig up.

[JLC]

I don't have anything to say about Paypal one way or the other....however, I would like to point out that someone who doesn't normally sell snakes or anything else over the Internet...who suddenly has a need to sell their collection....may not be set up with a commercial Paypal account, and certainly wouldn't be set up to recieve CC payments. So it would make perfect sense for them to want a money order or somesuch.


That would definitely be a case of "Buyer Beware" and one should consider very carefully before sending money to someone you don't know.

[Entropy]

I wanted to add that USPS Postal money orders are a good option.