Payment question
This is my first post ever on here. I’ve looked thru the forums and can’t find anything or the things I did find were older. I’m going to be selling guns on gunbroker. Not a lot. Maybe 2-3 a week. I’ve purchased about 50 items on gunbroker and almost always look for immediate payment. My bank account is linked to gunbroker but I can’t sell a gun and get paid like that? What company is the best payment gateway option? It’s crazy that there is no info about this on YouTube. Not even 1 video talks about this. The forums basically just say lie and use Venmo or Zelle. Even when I contacted customer service and asked which gateway most people use they didn’t give me an answer and told me I would have to accept money orders. Why would linking bank accounts be a thing if you can’t accept payments?
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I'm going to move this to General Discussion, where there is more traffic. We have a few big time sellers here that most likely have the answer to your question. BTW welcome to the GB forums. Stick around, this place is barrels of fun. @Locust Fork @Ricci.Wright
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Your first ever post on here does not impress me. A quick search of these forums returns search results countering your claim that
"The forums basically just say lie and use Venmo or Zelle."
Here's the first things that come up when searching for "Venmo":
From the first link (https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1899506/can-i-use-venmo-for-gb-purchases)
"If you're a seller, then you can ask for any type of payment you want, as long as you follow the user agreement. As a buyer, you must follow the sellers rules. Remember though, most payment methods like venmo, which is part of paypal won't allow you to use them for guns, and most gun related items. Read 2j.
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full"
The second link is about taxes and you quickly discover it's irrelevant to selling on GB.
From the third link:
"Zelle works..............and I think it is pretty secure. Only a matter of time though, before they prohibit transactions involving guns and ammo, as Paypal did."
That user was apparently mistaken, but clearly did not read their terms. In any case there was no advocacy for or against in the rest of the thread, and if you read that specific quote it would be nothing more than a prompt to look into whether or not it would be a good idea TODAY to use Zelle, since the post was made more than three years ago in 2020.
But here is the kicker, in just the fourth link (https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1896673/it-s-2020-internet-banking-is-here) you have a an Admin of these forums telling you specifically NOT to use Zelle (and this is only from a search about Venmo). He says:
I'm sure that Zelle works great with T-shirts, but the issue that Gun Broker venders are having is that Zelles's terms of agreement specifically forbid the service being used for firearms, ammunition, and other "weapons":
Your second post impresses me even less. You post this late in the evening on 21st (in a subforum that answers questions about guns) and when your post doesn't have any responses in the Ask the Experts forum within a couple hours, you post again bitching about how woe is me, no one responded in a couple hours? You appear to know that you can use Outdoor Pay, but this isn't good enough for you??
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