PayPal

Had a read of the blog and question 1 regarding terms of service about waivering your rights, this statement is not realy true because if PayPal is operating in Australia the have to abide by Australia consumer law.

As a business you can not alter Australia consumer law in any way even if the customer signs a dec. stating that they understand and agree to the new terms waivering any rights they may have.

Alot of businesse will try a bluff there way out of complying with the law.

In our businesses that we have we always get the customer to sign the bottom of the work order stating some of our terms and conditions, in our terms and conditions we can not make the customer agree to anything that changers the rights under Australia consumer law or are to hard to comply with or outside industrie standards.

Example....we have a clause that state any outstanding debts out side our trading term will incure interest chargeable at no more then to Reserve bank leanding mount as printed in the Australia Financial Review plus any expeneses incured.

If we said that the customer will be charge 25% we could be challenged in court and we would have to justify how we came up with the 25%......and more then likely we would not get away with it due to the fact we may be able to borrow money to cover that debt at 12%, hence we are making extra money out of the customer and this is not allowed.

Consumer law is a very very complicated act.

It is surprising how company will try to bluf there way with customers and 9 times out of 10 the company will exceed duet o the not being bothered or not undersatnding Australian consumer law.

Regards Richard

I use PayPal for purchases and I love it. Apart from ease of use, their protection works too.

On a recent ebay deal the highly rated supplier disappeared off the planet and I didn't receive the goods. PayPal acted on my behalf to have my money returned.

David P
you said in a reply "Makes you wonder abut the reason for the blog"

I would have thought that reading the blog would make that questions answer self evident????
Colin.

All I know is I DONT.....silverback

The Blog is in no way telling you what to do, it just gives people a bit of food for thought, and once burnt I would hate myself if I did not warn others of the risk.

Do what you want with the information, I just hope none of you are caught by them, without fair warning.

Remember, as of May 17th 2008 you can ONLY use PayPal on E-bay except for "pick ups" and even then the payment option MUST include PayPal or NO LISTING will be accepted by E-bay.

Read the blog before you consent to anything, it MAY save you many dollars.
Good luck.