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eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition
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eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Marsha Collier
February 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
648 pages
15h 22m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Letting PayPal Help You Manage the Money

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding the PayPal system

check Deciding which account is best for you

check Seeing how PayPal protects you

check Uncovering your payment history

In the early days of online auctions, eBay transactions were an iffy proposition. You would send a check to your trading partner, wait for the check to clear, and then wait for the item to arrive, all of which seemed interminable. There was little feedback in the beginning, so it was difficult to separate the good sellers from the bad. The most widely accepted form of payment was the money order, but that wasn’t as reliable as a check since you had no way to know when the money order cleared. Yet, in our small (but growing) community, we weren’t afraid to send money orders to strangers. Heck, some sellers even shipped merchandise before they received payment! Things were a lot simpler, if riskier, in the old days.

Now that eBay is a huge, global marketplace, having a secure and reliable method for accepting (and making) payments for your eBay transactions is crucial. PayPal fits the ...

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