Please Help..really need advice concerning bidpay and ebay? and noone answered my question?

Question

I won an ebay auction. The seller said they took and in fact preferred paypal. I immediately paid and 2 days later seller refused payment. Sent a message to me saying paypal too expensive and to use bidpay which I never heard of..

is it hard to register..is bidpay safe and do they charge me fees as the buyer.

what do you recommend I do concerning feeeback..they said they would release me from the bid and not give negative feedback. I did kind of want item..I am pis ed. Should I contact them by phone and just give credit card over phone? or what

Answer 1

I can't help you with bidpay info. I've used Paypal lots of times. I'd be very reluctant to give the seller your credit card over the phone they don't sound real reliable, especially after saying they want Paypal and then backing out. Even if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't give my credit card number to somebody I didn't know anything about.

I looked at both websites. For a Paypal business account, fees are about the same as bidpay, a little less or a little more depending on various factors. For a Paypal personal account, OK, they're about twice as much as bidpay - but if someone is in business enough that they can accept credit cards, they sure ought to have a business Paypal account.

Something funny is going on here. I would not even CONSIDER giving them a credit card number directly.

Good luck.