New,Help?Any suggestions on accepting online payments?

A friend of mine told me about… http://www.gottapay.com/  I just set up my acct. today so I am not exactly sure how it is going to work.  From what I read, it is adult friendly and deserves checking into.

BernaDette

hi anna  🙂
did you actually find out for sure that royal mail give out details of PO BOX owners, or was it just something you were worried about may happen? I was considering opening one..but wont if people that use it can get hold of my details!

Hi Kelly

Have a look at http://www.royalmail.co.uk. Look under Disclosure of information, they state:

‘We reserve the right in all cases to give the address of the PO Box holder, should it be requested.’

From that I’m assuming that means anyone, so as you can see I’m not keen.

In another thread, Cindy mentioned that she asks the buyer to send a cheque direct to her bank’s head office with her account details.  The Abbey always process them.  So that’s a viable option for us. 

In the same thread Lisa B tells about a payment processor option that may be available to us soon.

Hope this helps

Anna smt

You could always have a trusted friend with his/her own small business (or a guy friend) rent out the box for you…  You just pay the fees and use it as your own. 

I know exactly what you mean.  Bank Transfer seems to be a term used for 2 entirely different things.

Bank Transfer is something you would use with international buyers, you would provide your sort code, bank account no. and IBAN number (you can find this on your statement – it’ll begin with GB then a long number – which is actually your sort code and a/c no.)  The MASSIVE drawback is that the buyer may have to pay a large fee approx $30 in US – this is to do with processing currency.  Check with your buyer.  I’m assuming this will also be the case in Europe.

If your buyer is in UK then there is no prob with currency in which case they can do exactly as you do with your sister.  All you need to provide is your sort code, a/c no and name of a/c holder…first inital and surname should be sufficient.  They can pay online or at the counter with that info.  This isn’t strictly a Bank Transfer, this is what is referred to as a BACS transfer.  The principle is that you set BACS up for regular transfers but you can do it as a one off.  I do the same to pay back my parents :ohmy:) more importantly – NO CHARGE to buyer or seller. 

If buyer doesn’t want to do that then ask them to send a cheque to your bank’s head office, as previously mentioned.

Hope this helps

Anna smt

Well unless you want to post them out for free  😉 lmao

The most anyone can get from those details is your surname and maybe what branch you use.  The sort code indicates your branch.  The bank won’t give out any other details and unless you have some bizarre name, there will be hundreds of people with your surname in your locality, just check the phone book.

Alternatively just ask for cash or cheque and ask to use a male friend’s address.

Or use international buyers only, not much chance that they will fly or sail to stalk you  lmao

By the way, if you send a parcel international and have to put a return address either use a dummy one or put the postcode of your local post office – it’s all above board.

To put it all into perspective, statistics show that women are harrassed, assaulted, murdered etc by people they know – usually exes.

Hope this helps

Anna smt