(07-16-2021, 08:11 AM)Scott W Wrote: Lots of the ads on this site by people who have been around for years have used pp f&f as a pay option. I disagree with the back of the truck comparison.
The PP F&F was designed for exactly that: transferring funds between friends and family.
It has often been discussed here whether or not it is a violation of the PP TOS to use F&F for sales here.
There are WNers who have developed friendships here over the years and, while using F&F for transactions here may dance on the edge of the TOS, it does seem to fit within the "friends" definition. (IMHO (speaking for myself))
The risk is high, though, for using PP F&F to make payment to someone whose only post is an offer to sell something in SnS or to receive payment from someone whose only post is an "I'll take it" in SnS.
Members need to understand that risk.
I am sure that the back-of-the-truck comparison was not aimed at WNers with 10K or 100K posts.
It is for the people who are so new that they might turn out to be good long-term WNers or they may be spammers that we do not have enough evidence to ban/purge yet.
I would strongly dis-recommend using PP F&F to pay for anything offered in SnS by someone who only has 1 or very few WN posts.
Edited to add: no offense or disrespect intended towards the WNers who have been around a long time but who average less than one or 2 posts per year. We have many very good people who prefer to lurk and learn, but who rarely post.
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