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Dooneysta

Dooneysta

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...I want to buy an item from someone and have been told by others that PayPal ‘Goods & Services’ is better for this as opposed to ‘Friends & Family’, because I don’t know this person from a hole in the ground. So I do need the buyer protection (and you’d assume they’d want seller protection if I turned out to be scammy).

However, googling ‘how do I use PayPal goods and services’ reveals basically nothing except that you should totes use it and it’s awesome. The PayPal site itself is fairly obtuse about WHAT, PRECISELY, do people need to do to designate a payment as being for goods and services as opposed to F&F.

All the seller has done is send their PayPal address. When I log on to send money to someone, is PayPal going to ask me, is this for goods and services and you’re paying a rando or is this a gift for someone you know? And then it will process appropriately? Or do they (seller) have to initiate it from their end and this person is either inexperienced or shady since they haven’t?

It’s been difficult to find out specifically about how to pay for goods & services other places, but PF always knows what’s up! Thank you!!!:tup:
 
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Friends and Family is basically like handing cash to a stranger. There is no protection. None.
With Goods and Services, you are purchasing something. I cannot remember what all you fill out on there. I imagine someone else will come on here and explain it better. But, I am just saying not to use F&F.
 
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I haven't done this, but I think the best way is for the seller to send you an invoice that describes exactly what you are buying. Then it will automatically be goods and services. I don't know how much protection you would get if it isn't spelled out in detail what you are getting for your money.
 
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Dooneysta said:
...I want to buy an item from someone and have been told by others that PayPal ‘Goods & Services’ is better for this as opposed to ‘Friends & Family’, because I don’t know this person from a hole in the ground. So I do need the buyer protection (and you’d assume they’d want seller protection if I turned out to be scammy).

However, googling ‘how do I use PayPal goods and services’ reveals basically nothing except that you should totes use it and it’s awesome. The PayPal site itself is fairly obtuse about WHAT, PRECISELY, do people need to do to designate a payment as being for goods and services as opposed to F&F.

All the seller has done is send their PayPal address. When I log on to send money to someone, is PayPal going to ask me, is this for goods and services and you’re paying a rando or is this a gift for someone you know? And then it will process appropriately? Or do they (seller) have to initiate it from their end and this person is either inexperienced or shady since they haven’t?

It’s been difficult to find out specifically about how to pay for goods & services other places, but PF always knows what’s up! Thank you!!!:tup:
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Is the item listed on an online website? If so, there's no reason to "send money" to the seller because you'd pay through the transaction. If the seller is asking you to send money, it sounds like she's trying to take the sale off-site and screw ebay (or whatever site) out of their FVF.

Screenshots:
  • go to Send & Request:
  • input email receiving money
  • paypal 1.png
  • Click on TOP box in next screen to pay for a purchase and continue (at bottom)
  • paypal 2.png
  • On next page, it'll show the person's name and confirm that you're paying for goods and services. Put in the amount and your shipping address (at bottom)
  • Paypal 3.png
  • Next (last page), you'll confirm.
  • Seller will be charged a fee but that's not your concern.
DO NOT DO F&F!
 
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...this wasn’t an off-the-Bay transaction, just a selling group, so that the only consequence from the site itself would be getting banned by the mods if either of us is shady. So I definitely wanted PP Goods & Services, not FF.

Your screenshots were of perfect use, and I STILL can’t find someplace on the PayPal site that just explains it simply, BEFORE taking the leap, with actual ‘step one, click this’ type indicators like yours. You apparently just have to initiate the transaction and then get walked through.

So thank you for passing out real, explicit help as always! This isn’t, as you said, useful for eBay transactions, since you’re engaging in ultra-risky behavior to not pay through eBay, but since it’s become a nest of Poshmark/Tradesy/RealReal/etc threads too, I thought, even though it’s just a Facebook/Reddit type of buy-sell group, surely someone here has used PayPal extensively enough to know. :tup::hbeat:

Thank you!

BeenBurned said:
Is the item listed on an online website? If so, there's no reason to "send money" to the seller because you'd pay through the transaction. If the seller is asking you to send money, it sounds like she's trying to take the sale off-site and screw ebay (or whatever site) out of their FVF.

Screenshots:
  • go to Send & Request:
  • input email receiving money
  • View attachment 4490743
  • Click on TOP box in next screen to pay for a purchase and continue (at bottom)
  • View attachment 4490745
  • On next page, it'll show the person's name and confirm that you're paying for goods and services. Put in the amount and your shipping address (at bottom)
  • View attachment 4490746
  • Next (last page), you'll confirm.
  • Seller will be charged a fee but that's not your concern.
DO NOT DO F&F!
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