Have to agree with Harry on this.
I haven't sold much on eBay in years, mostly because of the stupid mandatory pay-pal garbage. I'm not interested in more spam, (what they refer to as "communication") or connecting anything else to my checking/credit card accounts. All these companies are like pathetic friends who think you have nothing better to do than read their pages of self-promoting email garbage. Have also heard the horror stories from honest sellers I know who get burned by lousy buyers.
The few auctions I have run all had huge disclaimers about not accepting pay-pal. Somehow they escaped eBay's watchful eye.
But now my old credit card that ebay had, has expired, and I'm not all that interested in renewing. I took many buyers personal checks, just didn't ship until it cleared. Money orders shipped immediately, and plenty of people picked up in person and payed cash.
Screw them. Enough people are searching craigslist nationally that I can buy/sell that way, although I know ebay owns a piece of craigslist now and I'm sure that as soon as they get a majority, craigslist will be history.
