{"id":741,"date":"2004-01-09T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/09\/1-9-04\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T11:28:09","slug":"paypal-thievery-or-industriousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/09\/paypal-thievery-or-industriousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Paypal Thievery? Or Industriousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20040109ship.png\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"62\" width=\"288\" \/>sell stuff on eBay. Many of my buyers pay via Paypal. Paypal has a very convenient integration with eBay and UPS so that I just have to click a &#8220;Ship Now&#8221; button on their website to pay for the shipment and print out a label. Slick.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a UPS Internet Shipping account. Today I tried shipping the same package with both the Paypal system and UPS internet shipping directly. It turns out that Paypal charges a 15% overhead fee. Paypal charged $9.60 for the package, UPS $8.20. Of course they don&#8217;t call it that&#8230; Paypal says, &#8220;This Shipping Cost is the same as available directly from UPS On Demand&#8221;. That&#8217;s well and good but no one ever gets a UPS On Demand Account because they are needlessly more expensive than regular Internet Shipping accounts.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be using that service any more&#8230;. paying $1.50 for a series of 6 or so copy and paste operations from Paypal to UPS. Hurumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sell stuff on eBay. Many of my buyers pay via Paypal. Paypal has a very convenient integration with eBay and UPS so that I just have to click a &#8220;Ship Now&#8221; button on their website to pay for the shipment and print out a label. Slick. I also have a UPS Internet Shipping account. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}