Hi everyone. I tried to post a listing in https://forums.digitalpoint.com/forums/domains.59/ but when I click "List domain for Sale," I get the following message: "You need to link your PayPal account in order to sell a site or domain. You want to get paid don't you?" I don’t quite understand why I need to link PayPal when my domains are sold through Afternic and all transactions are handled by them. In fact, I wouldn’t recommend using PayPal for domain sales at all - it’s often exploited by scammers for chargebacks.
Obviously, otherwise your thread would still be in the wrong category where you started it. We don't, however, have ways or means to bypass the paypal rule. It's been here for a while, and it may have served it's purpose and need replacing with a new strategy to cut some of the rampant scams that people try.
What does it matter if my thread has been sitting in that category since Friday? It’s got over half a thousand views, and not a single forum moderator has replied. The truth is, accepting payments for domains via PayPal is knowingly setting forum members up for fraud issues. Then the message should be corrected for the full picture: "You need to link your PayPal account in order to sell a site or domain. You do want scammers to reverse their PayPal payment and leave you without your domain, right?"
This rule makes no sense. I also wanted to list domains or sites, but giving the forum permission to take actions with my PayPal — that’s insane. This rule scares off honest people, not scammers. The forum should simply remove itself from any responsibility for the deal, and that’s it. Buying and selling process can take place on Afternic or elsewhere. But the forum could allow people to offer domains or websites without forcing the seller to risk their money or PayPal account.
Are we somehow suppossed to be impressed by that? I have a thread on DP that has 344,639 views on it. (Copywriting forum)
Exactly. PayPal payment fraud is so widespread that no one in their right mind would accept a domain payment through PayPal. But what surprised me wasn’t even the mandatory PayPal linking itself, but the actual text of the notification: "You need to link your PayPal account in order to sell a site or domain. You want to get paid, don’t you?" - seriously? More like - "You want to say goodbye to your money, right?"
Try reading the messages not taken out of context but within the context of the whole conversation. Then you’ll be less impressed than you are now.