Pay Pal Alternative

[Car Nut]

 

[dowboy1970]

The part of PP that stinks is that starting this year they are going to send you a 1099 and you'll pay taxes on your "sales". There is more to it but that's what the IRS plans to do.

They have been trying to do that for two or three years now, You should raise hell with your state reps and congressman over this,
Once they start it it will never end.

 

[Brooks James]

Their fee’s and exchange rate are killer. When all is said and done on a hundred dollar usd transaction I get $80.00 usd or pay $120.00 usd.

Agree, fees are too high

 

[oldkimmer]

Well dam, Cash App isn’t available in Canada

 

[JDMopar]

@4spdragtop @oldkimmer Hypothetical situation here. Say I bought a part from one of you for $50 Canadian. Instead of sending you money thru Paypal or something, what if I purchased a Visa gift card at our agreed upon amount and sent it to you in a birthday card? Would that be a way to keep you guys from getting screwed, and Slow Joe and Justin be none the wiser about a simple transaction between cross border friends? I thought about that today while I was standing in line at my post office to purchase a USPS money order to pay for something I am buying from a USA member here, and the post office had a whole big rack of gift cards customers can purchase. Just an idea that I was interested in hearing your input about.

 

[4spdragtop]

Good idea, I can't see why not? I would imagine a visa GC is good world wide? It would just st be a question of whether we can cash it in or would need to "use" it??

@4spdragtop @oldkimmer Hypothetical situation here. Say I bought a part from one of you for $50 Canadian. Instead of sending you money thru Paypal or something, what if I purchased a Visa gift card at our agreed upon amount and sent it to you in a birthday card? Would that be a way to keep you guys from getting screwed, and Slow Joe and Justin be none the wiser about a simple transaction between cross border friends? I thought about that today while I was standing in line at my post office to purchase a USPS money order to pay for something I am buying from a USA member here, and the post office had a whole big rack of gift cards customers can purchase. Just an idea that I was interested in hearing your input about.

 

[72bluNblu]

@4spdragtop @oldkimmer Hypothetical situation here. Say I bought a part from one of you for $50 Canadian. Instead of sending you money thru Paypal or something, what if I purchased a Visa gift card at our agreed upon amount and sent it to you in a birthday card? Would that be a way to keep you guys from getting screwed, and Slow Joe and Justin be none the wiser about a simple transaction between cross border friends? I thought about that today while I was standing in line at my post office to purchase a USPS money order to pay for something I am buying from a USA member here, and the post office had a whole big rack of gift cards customers can purchase. Just an idea that I was interested in hearing your input about.

Same idea as sending cash, no reason you can’t stick a wad of cash in an envelope and send it.

But if that letter gets lost, or the person on the other end decides to keep the money and the parts you’ve got zero recourse. The money’s just gone, just like it would have been before all the e-payment options.

 

[oldkimmer]

I think that’s a great idea. There is a certain trust between long time members. Any time I’ve sent or got cash I had a good transaction. I have taken Moneygram for bigger dollar purchases. Kim

 

[JDMopar]

@72bluNblu that would all be correct if I were buying something from Billy Bobz Mopar with 1 or 2 messages. But if I were buying something from longtime trusted members with all good feedback, I would do it with no worries. Maybe I'm too trusting, but I've never been burned buying from members here in the 12 years I've been here. I did have to drag one thru the mud in the General Forum to get him to ship the part, but I did get it. I pretty much use USPS money orders to pay, and yeah, that makes me a Dinosaur but I have been successful buying and selling that way. I rarely sell things though.