Willie
I fully understand a reluctance to take non-cash payments. At a swap or jumble, that is quite properly the only accepted payment.
However, on international transactions with different currencies, there is inevitably a problem with requires a commission of some kind to resolve. Here in the US, I do not maintain a stash of sterling or Euros to send thru the mail(?!) to pay those in the UK or Europe whom I have purchased items from. Then, when you receive my US dollars, you must pay a commission to have them converted into sterling.
You MUST understand the problems of the transaction from BOTH your optic and that of the guy at the other end. I do NOT have another viable way of sending money that is cost effective for sums of say less than $800 or 500 pounds. I can NOT walk into my bank and purchase a Sterling denominated money order for a nominal charge to send to you thru the mail. Thus when you restrict your auctions to payment ways that are easy and convenient to you (which is certainly your option!) you will inevitably cause some bidders to not bid. (better for the rest of us buyers!). And of course you will most likely never know.
Paypal, (in spite of its cost and various faults), does make it VERY easy....
Disclosure: stockholder in EBay and (by default) Paypal.
Ken Sanford
Kensington, MD
> Dale,while i agree the pics are crap if they are from
> the source i think they're from they will be worth
> bidding on ..
> when will international buyers/bidders realise that
> not everyone in the world wants or accepts electric
> money or can set up to avail of it, and would rather
> have a cheque or other form of payment . in the uk in
> my own experience there is still a lot of cash
> changing hands for cycle items ,i know that if you are
> going to some one to deal for kit you 'd better have
> some folding in your pocket.
> i fully realise that its helps the int.buyer but as
> far as i would be concerned, a medium that can go very
> wrong and with little help from ebay in sorting out
> the mess.....they cannot even stop these spoof
> auctions.. remember Peter Naimans diffs some weeks
> ago, ebay has gotten too big and too much money coming
> in for them to worry about ..they will quote
> statistics about how small a percentage is affected.
> ...rant over ... willie carton from a cold wet
> COLERAINE N.IRELAND
> PS. cost of sending a frame set stateside is approx
> 65stg postage plus insurance....AND this entails
> cutting down a std mtb type industry carton and about
> an hours packing to do it right.
>
>
>
> --- oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
>
>> <<.... a treasure trove at auction right now, check
>> it out:
>> http://ebay.com/
>> >>
>>
>> Indeed.
>> But what a shame...
>> This sort of thing makes me sad.
>> You wish that people like this would try to get some
>> help or make a
>> decent attempt themselves in approaching the sale of
>> valuable bike
>> goods.
>>
>> << The relative lack of close-ups leave me wanting
>> more>>
>>
>> The pictures are horrible! So easy to do better and
>> this incompetence
>> thus damaging the potential return that this gent
>> could receive for his
>> collection.
>>
>> In addition, he wants personal checks as payment..
>> The small additional
>> cost of using PayPal could easily be covered and
>> more with a decent
>> representation of the items (thereby increasing
>> selling prices) and in
>> the case of that Ephgrave frameset, $153.28 to send
>> it! Is that the
>> real cost these days to mail a frame?
>>
>> Don't people understand that these mis-steps make a
>> high percentage of
>> people ignore their offerrings and thus minimize
>> their selling prices?
>>
>> (Rant over............ )
>>
>>
>>
>> Dale Brown
>> Greensboro, NC USA
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Bulgier <Mark@bulgier.net>
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Sent: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:31:54 -0700
>> Subject: [CR] buncha cool old brit frames 'n' bikes
>> on the 'bay
>>
>> eBayer "paul_cameron84" (Paul Cameron maybe? I
>> don't know him) has
>> quite a treasure trove at auction right now, check
>> it out:
>> http://ebay.com/
>>
>> The relative lack of close-ups leave me wanting
>> more, and the 2006
>> plastic tail light clamped right onto the Reynolds
>> tubing decal on the
>> 1948 Paris Tour de France made me wince, but overall
>> there is much
>> goodness here, alas none in my size. Most are in
>> the 22" range.
>>
>> There's Ephgrave, Hetchins, Bates, MKM, Gillot, too
>> many to list.
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> Mark Bulgier
>> Seattle WA USA
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