Asking Customer for Email Address to Pay Through Paypal

[ross88]

I have a couple new stealth accounts and was wondering if its risky asking for a buyers email address so i can send them a Payment Request they can Pay through Paypal?

[jakobrockz]

yes because you're asking buyers to not include eBay in the transaction thus eBay losing transaction fees


this will get you suspended very very fast

Not worth the risk Imo.

Ebay are cracking down on this.

[Play]

First issue would be, under most circumstances the email address would be obscured when the buyer sends it to you - so your going to have to deal with that.

Then eventually ebay will suspend you for doing this (very quickly usually).

[danshan]

I do not see any issue with doing this at all. the only issue would be cancelling the transaction on ebay and trying to do the deal outside of ebay. BUt you can receive payment with lots of payment options as long as you give ebay their cut you are good.

This is not a violation of ebay terms or policies in anyway UNLESS you try to complete the transaction and cut out ebay

[danshan]

ebay does not require payments through ebay checkout, you can pretty much accept payment anyway you want but choosing other options can change buyer or seller protection

[danshan]

this is a long time ebay seller myth, that makes it really hard to deal with dumb ebay sellers. " I want to send you payment directly" and ebay sellers are like "NO that is paying outside ebay" and it is just not true, 100% not true and if I am wrong show me the policy proving I am wrong please, dont just feed your myths to this thread!

[ross88]

Thanks for all the info guys but what i mean is, If i dont have a listing up for an Item i have for sale is it safe to ask for buyers email address and invoice them in Paypal?

[rsot]

Originally Posted by ross88

Thanks for all the info guys but what i mean is, If i dont have a listing up for an Item i have for sale is it safe to ask for buyers email address and invoice them in Paypal?

If I am following correctly, you don't have the item for sale on eB right? Yes, you can invoice people on paypal for goods sold outside of eB...pp is NOT just for eb sales.

Now the real question is why use PP when you don't have to....?

[danshan]

LOL i should have read it closer, you can invoice anyone you want for a paypal payment

[ross88]

Yes i am aware of that lol, im speaking to these people through ebays message system and was wondering if anything would flag up if i ask the customers for their email address so i can send them a Payment Request

[Qwoty]

what if you end up selling to your competitor. I see this easily being used against you