If you are below 50 Ebay-Points they force you to accept Paypal payments. They even have a semi decent parser that does not permit statements like "I don't accept Paypal payments" in the Ebay offer.
Even if you manage to mangle a statement like that into your offer, chances are the buyer simply transfers the money via Paypal because he did not read the text. Happend two out of two times. Made me jump out of my skin each time.
By now I hate Ebay and Paypal so much, I stopped selling my yardsale-stuff there. Will go to the next flea-market and sell there. Person to person.
Waiting for an alternative auctioning platform.
It's not an auction site, but Craigslist is a pretty good place to buy and sell used stuff. I've had pretty good luck both buying and selling things through it. Last I checked, the listings were free too (except for real estate).
Unfortunately we don't have Craigslist in Europe.
AFAIK there is no viable alternative to Ebay right now.
Re:More Paypal nonsense
by Samuel_Michon on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @09:44PM
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It may not be available where you live, but there are lively Craigslists for most of the major cities in Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florence, London, Munich, Oslo,
Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Venice, and others.
So that's like paypal, but faster, more secure, cheaper also.
Many use that. I know PostBank makes <1min transfers, as I used to be a customer not long ago, for example.