Thank you Kevin23,
Same with paypal really, even goods and services... Its against paypals terms of service to use it to purchase or sell an airgun.. I have heard of a scam on the buying end with paypal, where the buyer puts something in the notes that isnt what he is buying and hopes the seller doesnt catch it. say "flatscreen tv" or something.. then when the seller ships the air rifle to the buyer, the buyer takes a bunch of pictures and contacts paypal saying that is not what they ordered and the seller shipped them a gun which is against paypal rules. Paypal voids the transaction and locks the sellers account for 30 days due to TOS violation, buyer gets their money back and keeps the gun... Its hitting the knife world right now too, paypal decided last year that knives other than packaged retail cutlery sets or tools (fillet knife, lathe tools, box knife, etc) are weapons and scammers are taking advantage of it.
This is what I was talking about in my response above and is the reason I don't even have a PayPal account. I don't believe I'd use it other than for gun items.
You have to lie to PayPal about what you're selling and "hope" the buyer doesn't inform PayPal that the actual item they were trying to buy was a "gun" and that "gun" wasn't as described. Then you're S.O.L. on your merchandise it sounds like.
"escrow.com" - I'm still hoping someone can provide some updated info that there are better protections in place than when this was first offered to us as an option. I don't even see it pasted as a sticky any more.
I was starting to feel like there was something really wrong with requesting USPS money order or Cashiers Check for my ads, but after reading all this I'm not that concerned about it any more. I used a Cashiers Check to purchase my IZH pistol last summer with no issues. Yes, a little apprehensive sending off $500 to a stranger, but, I corresponded by email and ended up talking to him on the phone a couple times before sending any money. I suppose I got lucky, but everything went well. That time. When I bought my FWB 603 I purchased it from Carel in the Netherlands using "Transferwise" now called just "Wise" I believe. Set up an account with info similar to setting up a Krale account, entered the dollar amount I wanted to transfer (using my credit card), it charged my card the amount and he had his money and then sent me the gun. Worked great.
Here's a link to "Wise" if anyone's interested:
https://wise.com/ (The link isn't working right. Click on link here to the left, when page loads, click on "Wise" on left upper corner.)
I haven't looked into it, but maybe this may work for us in the CONUS. I know it works from USA to the Netherlands. I don't know if we could do USA to USA?
If my small items sell.....great. If they don't, I'll give them away to my shooting buddies or, well, I don't know what to do with them. Trash can? Anything else sounds better than this.
That's unfortunate because I was hoping to do a trial run with these couple small items to see how selling online goes (Remember, they're my first online sales here.) because I have a couple nice guns, a FWB 603 & an AA S510 Ult. Spt. XS-FAC I hoped to list here for sale later to fund the purchase of a new gun.