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We're seen more reports lately of sellers asking buyers to pay using unprotected forms of payment like Zelle, CashApp, PayPal Friends and Family, or Venmo (without Goods and Services protection). Has this happened to you?
We want to be sure that everyone understands our rules regarding this. We have a longstanding rule that requiring or even requesting payment through unprotected payment platforms is not allowed. You can find this in our selling forum rules, and we even made a longer explanatory post about it that you can find in the stickies in the selling forums: Please remember that sellers on R2R are NOT allowed to ask for unprotected forms of payment (PP friends & family, unprotected Venmo payment, etc.) The ONLY exception to this rule is for local pickup transactions where a buyer can inspect the item being purchased in person.
Additionally, sellers are not allowed to add on extra fees for PayPal's seller fees (this has sometimes been done as a way to push buyers to use unprotected forms of payments), all selling fees (other than shipping) should be built into the asking price of the item.
We regret that we live in a time and culture where this type of policy is necessary. However, due to the number of online scammers, this is a rule we simply cannot bend on. And because this is a growing issue, moving forward, we are going to be enforcing this rule with zero tolerance.
Simply put, our policy is that if a seller requests an unprotected form of payment, this will result in the loss of selling privileges here.
We want to be sure that everyone understands our rules regarding this. We have a longstanding rule that requiring or even requesting payment through unprotected payment platforms is not allowed. You can find this in our selling forum rules, and we even made a longer explanatory post about it that you can find in the stickies in the selling forums: Please remember that sellers on R2R are NOT allowed to ask for unprotected forms of payment (PP friends & family, unprotected Venmo payment, etc.) The ONLY exception to this rule is for local pickup transactions where a buyer can inspect the item being purchased in person.
Additionally, sellers are not allowed to add on extra fees for PayPal's seller fees (this has sometimes been done as a way to push buyers to use unprotected forms of payments), all selling fees (other than shipping) should be built into the asking price of the item.
We regret that we live in a time and culture where this type of policy is necessary. However, due to the number of online scammers, this is a rule we simply cannot bend on. And because this is a growing issue, moving forward, we are going to be enforcing this rule with zero tolerance.
Simply put, our policy is that if a seller requests an unprotected form of payment, this will result in the loss of selling privileges here.