The Craptank

I've often purchased items on eBay and then changed my mind or just needed something to use once. No problem, I'd just sell it back, but the fees are becoming out of hand. They used to be negligible, but now every feature has a fee. Say you want to start the bidding low and put a reserve price to protect you. You save on the insertion fee but it would cost $2.00 for the reserve feature. List in two categories and the fee there is doubled. But what really bugs me is Pay-f'in-pal. People either pay you via instant transfer or by credit card. 4.9% fee on credit card payments. Bank payments are free to accept, but only if you have a personal type account. If you accept a credit paypment, then your account must be upgraded to a business type account. Then even instant transfers have a fee (although its a lesser fee). I asked paypal to downgrade me back to personal status and they said fine, but it can only be done one time. Well, the next payment I received put my total payments received that month over $500. Turns out if you make over $500 per month you must upgrade to a business account. So, now I'm back to business status. So I opened another paypal personal account for future transactions. I just put on my auction a message that I prefer instant transfers, but gladly accept good old money orders and cashiers checks. Mind you, the things I've been selling lately are mostly old things of my own such as CDs.

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