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    Exclamation this could be could be iffy

    Quote Originally Posted by caroleallen View Post
    As long as they don't make it only Paypal. I use a Tesco credit card for all my business expenses which gives me loads of points that I use on a holiday each year. Next year we're going on a Caribbean cruise courtesy of Tesco's.
    In effect, your paying by credit cards for business goods, and putting that amount through the books, then the card company is giving you 'kickbacks' in the form of cash or goods.

    If you enter the total amount of the payment in your accounts, you need to enter the cash value of these cruises, as income too. lol.
    Last edited by ben b; 04-11-2009 at 12:40 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boo View Post
    As a compromise arrangement, you could always consider a PayPal Top Up card - I have one and transfer from my PayPal balance to it (those of you that sell on Etsy etc. must remember to convert dollars to Sterling first) and that dosh is available on the card after about 24 hours and then it works just like a Visa card - I can use PayPal received funds anywhere that takes Visa cards. So mine works like a business debit card. It costs a fiver a year to have it, but digital transactions don't cost anything, but cash withdrawals are 2 quid I think - there's a tariff on the site.

    I just paid for my last Cookson order with it and paid my jewellery business insurance premium over the phone with it this morning. It works ideally for me.
    I also have a Paypal Top up card and it works very well for me - might be good as a stop gap until Cooksons get something up and running

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    As an addendum to my earlier comments, I've since found a couple of places that haven't taken it - I think perhaps because it doesn't have a start date on it and I was asked for it on those occasions.

    But I have used it successfully most places. I've paid for food shopping at Aldi, tools in B&Q and various on-line orders for supplies. I've even taken cash out and paid my 2 quid for it - it's well worth £2 to me to do so as I can get cash in my hand from on-line sales in just over 24 hours instead of waiting for a week for PayPal to transfer it to a bank account - a process that I've had fail twice, leaving me in an expensive and inconvenient hole.

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    I don't mind pay pal, but currently I don't find the current method a problem only 3 digits.

    No one does free processing,so someone will end up paying for it and in the end it will be us.

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    there needn't be lots of set up stuff... all Cooksons need to do is get an account and the buyer can transfer the monies to the associated email account, for personal reasons Paypal is the best for me to be truthful and I don't want to have anything that makes it easier for me to spend money so don't want to get a paypal card!

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    The PayPal card is purely a debit card to your PayPal balance - more like a pre-payment card. It's not a credit card that might entice you to get into debt - you can only spend what was in your PayPal account anyway - which you transfer to it and it's available about 24 hours later.

    It just means you can spend your PayPal funds in places that don't already accept it - like supermarkets - and get at it faster than transferring it to a bank account. In the past, if I wanted to use money received into PayPal as cash or for food shopping, I'd have to transfer it to the bank first - which took at least a week - this way takes a day or so and if you want to take cash out it costs £2 - sometimes time is of the essence and the £2 well worth it.

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    18 months on, and I'm going to bump this. So we have a shiny new website (and a very slow forum) but still no paypal option?

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    I'd very much like to have the option of paying by paypal too.

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    Me too. Yet again stuck with money in paypal account and having to wait for it to transfer before buying supplies. Ggggggrrrrrrr!

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    Is Paypal ever coming??

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