Lots of buyers with no paypal and no feedback bought something today.

[musicyouneed]

Today I had 3 buyers zero feedback, no paypal, make 4 purchases (immediate payment).  2 CD's by Chris Botti and 2 CD's by Dan Gibson (Solitudes) coincidence, maybe, but I'll take it.   All Canadian, all sales off .ca.  I am happy.  

So new buyers are shopping and I am so happy that I took off the paypal requirement as my sales for zero feedback buyers has increased.  

[vintagenorth]

I'm not sure I understand, how did you remove PayPal? Do you have your own credit card system?

[ypdc_dennis]

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@vintagenorth wrote:

I'm not sure I understand, how did you remove PayPal? Do you have your own credit card system?

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OP removed the requirement that the buyer had to have a paypal account to purchase.

Paypal can also process a credit card for an eBay purchase made by a buyer without a paypal account -- a credit card system is not a requirement for the seller.

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[ricarmic]

I've mentioned this before in other threads, but everyone starts at zero feedback. My favourite (ex) zero feedback buyer is somewhere around 40 now, and ALL of them are from me. I am the only person they've ever purchased from to date!!!

I also have a couple buyers who do exactly that, every time they buy it is a new ebay userid (the automagic one). I'm assuming they just purchase using a credit card each time and don't have a paypal account either. They've both purchased many lots this way.

Now I live in a "safer" world of selling stamps so one has to take that into account......

[rose-dee]

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@ypdc_dennis wrote:

Paypal can also process a credit card for an eBay purchase made by a buyer without a paypal account -- a credit card system is not a requirement for the seller.

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I've known about this, but never understood how it actually operates (from the buyer's perspective).  Obviously it does though.  I've never tried making a purchase from a credit card on eBay because I always go through Paypal, so I have no direct experience in this.  

Like the OP, I had my preferences set for a long time to block buyers without a Paypal account, assuming that anybody with a credit card could easily sign up to Paypal to make a purchase and use their credit card that way.  I was under the impression for a long time that the only alternative was for me to have a merchant account to offer direct credit card payments -- which I'm sure is an expensive proposition, not for every seller.  

However, I'm glad that payment is in fact flexible on eBay.  I've taken that Paypal block off a few months ago, because I was hoping it would open up buying options -- and increase sales.  I'm not sure there has been any significant increase in sales as a direct result, but then that would be very difficult to prove.