I just looked it up on the PayPal site, if you send Friends and Family from PayPal balance or bank account, PayPal waives the fee. If you send via credit or debit card, the sender pays the fee. However, I stand by my unpopular opinion that I’m not going to forfeit buyer protection so a seller can be lazy and not calculate how much he needs to sell a yoyo for in order to get the amount of money he wants after fees and shipping charges. I’m also not nearly a trusting enough soul to tell a stranger from the internet I’m willing to become the latest “I bought a yoyo from _____, paid friends and family, it has been 2 months, he hasn’t responded to any PM, I haven’t gotten my yoyo”
People who pull that game aren’t shady, they are thieves.
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It’s explicitly against the PayPal terms of service as a seller to add a surcharge for PayPal fees.
If you assume that the person on the other end of the keyboard is 10 years old it helps. Not saying that the serious lack of manners online is nice, just that it feels like yelling at clouds to care about it at this point, you know? That said, I’m always pleased to deal with polite people who communicate in full sentences.
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That’s actually a strange rule. It would be like the postal service denying a seller’s right to charge for shipping costs. Unless im misunderstanding you.
It is also against their terms of service to use F&F in a business transaction, but people don’t care because PayPal is one of those “evil” corporations.
It’s the same rule that credit card companies use. Stores aren’t allowed to add a fee to pass credit card processing costs to the customer. The traditional way around this is to post the price that would be for credit card (PayPal in this case) and then offer a discount if paying with cash (I guess F&F in this case)
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I see, I guess that makes sense.
wow this buying / selling opinion is a bag of cats.
Any other unpopular yoy opinions ?
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Oh no… I’m shady. 
I don’t really keep up with BST pricing. If I want to sell something I just say make an offer most of the time. I don’t see an issue with that. People offer what they want to pay and if it sounds good to me then we have a deal. 
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Shadiest of shady.
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Garrett, how much for just one rib!?
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make me an offer.
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Unfortunately they are almost always grown adults. Of all my transactions here, at most two of them have been “kids”
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I think the pc term for that nowadays is young people lol
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Unpopular opinion: screw PC terms.
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I believe you 
… but I try to give them the benefit of the doubt 
Unpopular opinion: sparking a yoyo is overrated. I just don’t get it.
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I don’t know if thats an unpopular opinion, but if you don’t firmly attach teminals in you PC then quite frankly your asking for alot of future maintenance. Shot circuits can cause major bother.
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i use matches
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But… sparks.
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Meh. I would much rather watch somebody else spark theirs. And even then, it’s like “whoopty doo”.
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