I'm a Fox Mulder fan: Trust no one. That includes the geniuses at the PO. Cash in hand or clear my bank. I pass the PO daily.
Methods of payment for classified items
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I'm a Fox Mulder fan: Trust no one. That includes the geniuses at the PO. Cash in hand or clear my bank. I pass the PO daily.
That's actually not as safe as you may think.
A stop payment order could still get put on it while it's in the bank and you could still get screwed.
What you can do, is use the money order at the post office to buy another money order and then go deposit that money order.
Much like you do with a cashier's check at the bank. Go to the bank, use that cashier's check to buy another check.
It gives you pretty good security.
First off.... don't bother with the David Hogg style "asking for a friend" BS.....
I take great pride in finding any way I can to stick it to the SJW Technocrats and the big business payment conglomerates.
If their TOS claims to hate your rights, I say it's twice as important to stick it to them as hard as you can.
Even with a "free" transfer, PayPal is still making big bank from all the money they are given basically for free, to float for a day or two.
On the USPS website they state you can not stop payment on a USPS money order. You can get a refund if you have the original money order and a receipt. You can file for a lost money order but that takes time. Only accept USPS money orders and no others.
If the post office verifies it for you then you are safe to mail your item and then deposit at your bank your next pass by.
So if the buyer decides to claim the money order was stolen from them and used by someone else, or claims that you were a fraud or such and starts a the recovery / investigation process......
I'd suggest if you have any questions about the buyer, you make sure to either cash it at the post office first, or use it to buy a new money order yourself from the post office then go deposit that one.
Until you have seen checks unclear like a month later, you won't understand how much leeway the banks have in doing what they want.
If you haven't seen them bounce a bunch of smaller checks that were already paid out so they could pay a bigger one and get more check bounce fees, you haven't understood the maximizing fee racket.
Just like most who have direct deposit for their paychecks setup have no idea that the "paycheck company" can go drain your bank account at any moment and you are stuck out of money till you fight it in court and maybe get some money back, maybe not if the guys that took your money go under.
(If you can't google some recent high profile events of this exact thing happening... your search skills suck).
I have dealt with a lot of account holder initiated fraud over the years and have learned that you should never ever trust any promise by some corporation to "protect you," in letting you keep the money. It's a flip of the coin as to if they will keep their promise or not. They often side with the fraudster, especially if they can stick it to you with fees for them having to rip you off.
A USPS MO is made out to the seller. The purchaser has to physically write the sellers name on the money order. If your name is in the money order you are good to go. Same as cash.
A personal check is risky. That I agree with you as you really never know if it clears or not.
That's why you should insure items sent to people you don't know, especially if they're high dollar. PO will have the actual weight of whatever it was that you sent. And then we're back to defrauding the mail service.
Not exactly, I'm pretty sure a USPS MO or a Cashier Check is same as cash... I like paypal, it's just faster and I don't use it for actual firearms so they can't prove what I'm buying or selling isn't for airsoft or some other shit completely off label. Now if you wanna send MO or check, I'll take it. If you send personal, you will be waiting until it clears before I ship. If you send cashier or postal, I'll ship same day.
With cashier checks, they make the funds available right then. You can cash a $5000 cashier check. When you get a cashier check, you're basically buying a check from the bank, it's paid for.
You can return both a USPS MO and a cashier check... But unless you have the check/MO and the receipt, I think you have to wait until the check/MO expires. I know there's some period of wait, at least with USPS MO's.
Wish I knew more about this one and then there's another my bank uses, begins with an R?
You can do direct bank deposits, and those aren't reversible either.
CC offers good protection they've done chargebacks for me before. Thing about paypal is that it offers another layer.
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I sold a buddy some mags and ammo the other day. He didn’t have cash on hand so he sent PayPal for the “Clips and Ammo”now they’ve locked my account.
They have a resolution center where you attach a pic/doc to explain yourself. Don’t think I’ll be able to talk my way out of this one, so I’m contemplating my exit response...something along the lines of F Off Commies! or similar.
Guess it’s time to research alternate payment methods.
Yeah, that's stupid putting anything in there really. I put "parts" if anything.
That's a good idea, extremely good in fact. PM me and I can provide you a picture of a bottle of ammonium lactate lotion if you need it! Just write 'em a "ha ha! I can see how you may have come to that conclusion now but no, has nothing to do with gun stuff, which my family and I are against!"
I bought a razor from a guy on here and used Venmo only to find out it was a scam. I had to file a police report and do a chargeback to get my money back. I imagine if I didn’t have the police report files I may have not gotten a refund with the chargeback.
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I've often wondered why people would ever send a personal check. You're sending that person printed information about your routing number, bank account number, name and address. Do people realize what can be done when you have these items of person information?
USPS MO is the same as cash as long as it's legit. The buyer brings cash or debit card (can't be CC) to the PO and they charge them whatever the price they want on the MO + a small processing fee. Once the buyer gets the MO in the mail they should take it to PO and verify it's legit then it's just like having the cash worth that amount. MO's never expire either. Once verified by the PO you can cash it there (if the PO has enough bills on hand) or take it to your bank to have cashed or deposited into your account. MO in my opinion is one of the safest routes. I don't send anything until I can at least verify the MO is legit. Once verified legit send items. I don't deal with personal checks, too many ways to get screwed down the road like said above.
I loathe the USPS Money Order process. I’m not making a separate trip to deal with the post office to pay for an item, I don’t have time for that. I use PayPal all the time, F&F so they really aren’t making any money off of it beyond a day’s interest. In addition to the fees for protection, I noticed they are also charging fees to use a credit card. I used to do the credit card through PayPal so I’d have Citibank to go after.
I recent got scammed for $120 on here with a Zelle payment, I’m out the money with no recourse, would’ve been the same PayPal F&F. As much as it sucks to get scammed, over the years I’ve saved more than $120 on USPS MO fees and postage using an electronic payment.
I recent got scammed for $120 on here with a Zelle payment, I’m out the money with no recourse, would’ve been the same PayPal F&F. As much as it sucks to get scammed, over the years I’ve saved more than $120 on USPS MO fees and postage using an electronic payment.
I've only had an issue with PayPal 1 time and that was because I used the Friends and Family and the guy never mailed me the fuel pump. It did eventually get resolved but it took a few months paypal told me if I would have done the regular payment they would have refunded me right away. I will still use FF for small amounts but anything over 100 bucks or so and I just pay the small 3% fee.
One thing I did notice specific to this site is some guys require you to add 4%? I get it 1% is whatever in most cases but paypal is just as nice for the seller as the buyer no need to mark up the fee.
One thing I did notice specific to this site is some guys require you to add 4%? I get it 1% is whatever in most cases but paypal is just as nice for the seller as the buyer no need to mark up the fee.
