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How to list item without paypal address or merchant account
 

I want to list my items on ebay and just manually send buyers invoices to their email address with google checkout but to list, ebay requires you to enter a paypal email address. I read somewhere that a seller was able to list items using the address pymt@paypal.com. Does this work or has anyone else found a way to get past this? I cant simply click merchant account because ebay now requires you to fax merchant documents so thats out of the question.

Just enter one of your non paypal email addresses. Inform your buyers not to pay immediately and that a paypal payment invoice will be sent to their ebay email address on file (Put that In the sellers "addition checkout instructions" in bold also). Been working for me. Some of my buyers still overlook that and pay immediately. When that happens, it shows the payment as pending and paypal will email you. Avoid that email at all costs. Email your buyers through ebay or their email address. Tell them to cancel the payment and use the paypal invoice to send payment.

I know that sounds crazy but If you willing to make money. You might as well go through it the hard/stressful way or choose to go disappear from ebay forever.

Thanks. How do you get the buyers email address to send the paypal invoice to?

Okay I think Ill just send buyers paypal invoices then. But I still want to know how to get their email address to send the invoice to

WHen auction ends- ebays email has their email address in it (the "Youre item sold") email