Well EBAY is a monopoly...
and exercises antitrust policies.
But I have found they do allow you to offer to pay buyers fees, which is equivalent to offering a discount.
You can't say:
If you pay Paypal, there is an extra fee of $5.00.
They will tank your auction for that.
But you can say:
If you pay with USPS Money Order, I will provide you a discount to compensate for your expenses.
I don't use USPS Money Orders though. Customers can complain about you for any reason to EBAY. EBAY uses these complaints to track you. If they complain about you on your paypal account, EBAY only gets your paypal email. But if they complain about a money order where they got your address, and that address was on a formerly suspended account, you are linked.
I also have had people contact me AFTER an auction about payment of small items by check rather than paypal. They insist they want the item and could I provide an address. If I don't, they just disappear. Why would someone take an EBAY negative mark for not paying for a $3 item and never respond to the seller again? Why not just say you misunderstood and don't want the item?
I think EBAY uses mail moles all the time to acquire addresses and find people breaking their rules. They also heavily depend on rats. Exposing mail addresses of suspended accounts can get you linked. So if you do want to accept money orders, get a fresh box somewhere.
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