To all who have had "great experiences" with Paypal.... I was in that boat once. Greatest thing since sliced bread. until you have a problem... and it's not a matter of "if" you have a problem... but a matter of "when". See what happens then.... they are utterly unresponsive, non-helpful and impossible to deal with or contact. In my case it was a buyer backing out of a deal (buyers remorse? who knows.. he turned out to be a loser in any case.).... so I get hit with an unauthorized chargeback to my paypal account... $100+ of positive balance gets sucked into oblivion by them... plus another $500+ negative balance now... Fortunately I had started the account before April 2002, so they had no implicit authorization to charge any of my accounts for that neg. balance... they will just have to eat it which of course serves them right... the "seller protection policy" is a joke - absolutely no honoring of that from them (and of course I complied to the letter of it).... IMNSHO, avoid Paypal like the plauge.
-Ed
-Ed