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What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away

i may have over reacted... for some reason PayPal wants to drive me into a business account. Looks like the fees are the same so not sure what that is all about, I'm just suspicious by nature

If you switch to a business account which is pretty easy you get a merchant ID, enter it here, and move on. If you don't want to do that then they make it very complicated to fill out forms, etc. I gave up and switched to business, made up a bogus business name and am moving on...
herman
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uberwaltz
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Audiogon WILL allow sellers to accept other forms of payment besides PayPal ONLY if you become a registered business user here on Audiogon.
Then you can state you accept check, cash etc.
However as this involves a monthly fee to Audiogon that's pretty useless IMHO.
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sfseay
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My feeling is PayPal will use business accounts sales data to eventually report uncollected sales tax to the state you live in.  Also, audio mart has worked very well for me for over $30,000.00 in sales.  Not sure why someone would make up a story about them being a poor choice unless they were banned for fraud or deceptive ads.
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geoffkait
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A little paranoid, eh? 😳
mitch2
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@uberwaltz 
Audiogon WILL allow sellers to accept other forms of payment besides PayPal ONLY if you become a registered business user here on Audiogon.
When was this communicated?  Did I miss another memo?
I thought the "registered business user" was a PayPal thing.  I was not aware that is a classification by Audiogon.
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uberwaltz
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Mitch
It may never have been general communication.
I only know for two reasons.
1/ prior to the change I once accepted a check to then be told by Agon I could not do that and only business members could accept a check.
2/ they offered me separately a business membership at discount.
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