Bidpay No More Starting Dec. 25
12-19-07, 09:03 PM
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Bidpay No More Starting Dec. 25
The crappy and highly unreliable payment bidpay auction and payment service is no more. I honestly thought it was pure trash compared to paypal(can you believe that?) So it looks like it will be PayPal and maybe Google Checkout in the long run. Here is the email I just got.
"Effective IMMEDIATELY, BidPay will no longer accept new BidPay account registrations.
Effective IMMEDIATELY, banner insertions for new auctions will be disabled. That means that any attempts to add “BidPay” as a payment option in auctions will not be effective. Accordingly, you should offer alternative forms of payment.
Effective 5:00 P.M. PST, December 25, 2007, BidPay will cease accepting payments.
From January 1, 2008 through 11:59 P.M. PST, January 31, 2008, registered users will have read-only access to their BidPay account information.
Customer support services will be available through January 31, 2008 by contacting [email protected]."
"Effective IMMEDIATELY, BidPay will no longer accept new BidPay account registrations.
Effective IMMEDIATELY, banner insertions for new auctions will be disabled. That means that any attempts to add “BidPay” as a payment option in auctions will not be effective. Accordingly, you should offer alternative forms of payment.
Effective 5:00 P.M. PST, December 25, 2007, BidPay will cease accepting payments.
From January 1, 2008 through 11:59 P.M. PST, January 31, 2008, registered users will have read-only access to their BidPay account information.
Customer support services will be available through January 31, 2008 by contacting [email protected]."
12-19-07, 09:34 PM
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I've only received 1 payment from a buyer from Bidpay and that was years ago. They sent money orders to sellers back then. Not a bad deal as there was no risk to the sellers like there was and still is from Paypal. THe only drawback from the seller's side was it took a while to ge the money order. The drawback to the buyer was it cost $7.50 to make a payment and it took a while to get the item shipped because of the time it took the seller to get the money. It would be great for foreign payments though as Paypal really doesn't protect anyone in those transactions.
