YOU GET ME WRONG GUYS , my ebay name is WAKECOM , i sel wake gear obviously , not $5 sprockets but $450 boards sometimes . paypal pays the buyer his cash as soona as hes cries "NOT RECIEVED" .

have a bit of belief in paypal my friends !!!!!!

its geared towards the buyer 900%

paypal is against ME !!!! im a seller , BUT an honest one who cares about his buyers , if i sell to you , I WILL DELIVER < YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR !!!!

bro , you buy something from the UK , the dickhead says bankdraft only , the sale is $5.20 with $10 postage, it costs $26 to do a bank transfer so the total is $40+bucks , for a $5 item !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


just use paypal mate

money order is better? Please! Why send non-refundable money orders to a seller who for all you know could be dishonest. Theres no storefront, I can't tell shmo47 from goodguy93 except for feedback, which isn't entirely reliable. A lot of us have had items never arrive. Paypal is the price you pay for safe trusted transactions. As a buyer I've only done money order once because I acidentally bid on an item without checking payment options. had a nervous feeling about the transaction from the start. All worked out well but I'd lke to buy without the nervous feeling.

definately mate if you're buying , you are covered 100% paying by paypal . i am an ebay seller with nearly 400 feedback , bought a ripper f&f off the bay from a guy (name not disclosed until the payment is returned) was mad keen to get this bike , checked his feedback , all good , he has ripped me off for $420 .... you kinda miss that chunk of cash ???

first time ever .... western union money order !

he would not accept paypal even if i paid the fees !

set alarm bells ringing BUT he sounded a good guy .... wrong

the risks we take when we see that SE badge !!!!

I am currently going through a situation with a P.K. Ripper frameset I purchased. I sent the seller the money through Pay Pal on April 5 and after a multitude of excuses, as of Friday, April 21st he e-mailed me saying he STILL has not shipped it. Now, mind you, I realize that sometimes things come up in a person's life where they can't just hurry down to the post office and drop off an item for shipment, but when nearly 3 weeks passes and the item hasn't even been shipped yet, there is NO EXCUSE for this, in my opinion. I e-mailed the seller and let him know this and I demanded a refund. I am still waiting.....

[ April 22, 2006, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: ripper ]

well mate , that is an honest seller !!!!!!

so feekin slack and honest that after 3 weeks he is still saying he has not shipped it ! maybe he is just plain stoopid , nevertheless , just send him a few coaching emails telling him that once you have paid the next step is to SEND THE ITEM , you never know , you might actually get it .

could be worse ..... he could have said he sent 3 weeks ago , and have you waiting for the posties knock for weeks and weeks ..... not nice !

I got duped twice , once for a record the guy in germany claimed he sent , even though I PP him &n he got my money . Twice just recently i PP a guy in Jersey for another record & NOTHING AFTER 2 MONTHS ! I checked the feedback & a couple of buyers stated that this seller was slow on the shipping . I didn't give him a negative feedback Bcause all this will do is make the seller "retaliate " & negative you back . my feedback is @ 299 W/ "only " 2 negatives , one was a retaliation & the other was one my brother who won an auction using my name W/o my knowledge BITD ca.'98 & he never paid it . I think pP is worth it as it's convienent , as a seller I'd much rather use PP B cause sometimes a buyer may not communicate that they are sending you a M.O. & you are a sitting duck just waiting for a payment of some sort . Sell stuff you know will bring in decent money ! I'm not gonna sell a record or CD that will pull $5 , not worth it which is why I post the more rare items that I know will fetch more . Ebay is NOT a free service & it does cost bucks to host all that stuff , try renting a table @ your local flea market & see if you do better

Yea paypal can be a real PITA sometimes
but being able to TRACK someone EASILY is well worth the horrible fee's Paypal charges

Paypal is totaly for the buyer but in the 500+ sales transactions (car parts) in the last 5 years i only had one bad customer

Luckily he had me send it to his work address so paypal told him to effe off
hahaha

Max

Unfortunately Im way across the pond from Vintage bmx ground zero. Scoring gd oldschool American made parts and bikes is hard, well even BITDs. Im very dependant on Ebay for parts I need, well of course u guys helped a fair deal too.

Update: Yesterday, my frameset finally arrived and thankfully it was just as described. I was seriously worried that I was going to get burned and have to go through the credit card company to recover my funds. I recently got burned on a car stereo I purchased, so I was more than a little paranoid that it was about to happen again. Good thing this had a happy ending!

[ April 30, 2006, 10:10 PM: Message edited by: ripper ]