[ale] [OT] PayPal

[Leam Hall]

I use PayPal often, though it is more for the liability issue. Your 
PayPal ID is normally your e-mail address so that isn't overly complex. 
He sends you money.

However, there's a caveat that you need to send the stuff in some way 
that PP can track. Otherwise he can revert the payment and claim that it 
never arrived. So PayPal is good but the system can be worked.

Leam


On 10/13/2012 04:23 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> What I know about PayPal would fit in a thimble with plenty of room left
> over for my thumb.
>
> BUT . . . .
>
> we are trying to sell some furniture on Craig's list and have had one
>> possibly<  serious inquiry.  But we are suspicious.  The "buyer" asked,
> among other things, if we were the first owner -- of chairs that are almost
> certainly pre-war (aka "The Late Unpleasantness" here in Atlanta) and are
> advertised as such.
>
> He wants to pay via PayPal -- without actually seeing the chairs!
>
> He wrote in part:
>
>> Thanks for the email, I will send Your payment as soon as
>> I receive Your PayPal email id, You will receive a notification
>> receipt email from PayPal as soon as Am through with the payment.Just
>> follow the Instructions and procedures on the payment in order to get
>> the funds credited into Your PayPal account so that you can easily
>> transfer the money to your bank account or credit card. as soon as the
>> funds reflect on your PayPal account......
>>
>> Do get back to me now with your PayPal email address and full name so
>> i can proceed with the payment asap.
>
> As a second generation newspaper editor my cynical gene is somewhat over-
> developed and this offer (to me) smells like it was dragged up from the
> bottom of the Chesapeake Bay -- up around Baltimore.
>
> So, how reliable is PayPal, anyway?
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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