Is paypal required for Canadian eBay users

[zeroaster]

Having already had one eBay business destroyed by paypal, I will never use them again. However, I would like to get back on eBay both to buy and sell. Am I required to open another paypal account? Because I'll never do that.

I know eBay has recently been forced by an Australian court to end mandatory use of paypal there and in New Zealand.

To buy I would use a credit card. To sell, I would register a corporation and sign up for a merchant account. Can I do this? Or is there no way around paypal.

[Mousi]

Selling and Paypal in Canada

Hi there
if you want to buy you will have a hard time to pay via creditcard (I noticed). if you want to sell from Canada mostly you will have a merchant account in the states. ebay will ask for a copy of the merchant account statement and telephone number to call you. they never accepted it. they want paypal. you can sign up for the fees with a creditcard. if you want to pay via creditcard you have to link it to your paypal account as most of the sellers on ebay to not have a merchant account linked (that is only my experience though!).

[John14789]

It's not easy to get ebay to accept a merchant account as the sole means of receiving payments. I suggest to use paypal and start selling slowly.

As far as making payments for fees: use the one time payment method. No need to link the accounts.

[Modee]

I have developed though a new technique that allows you to use a merchant account on Ebay without even getting it approved by Ebay! This technique works even for brand new Ebay accounts, and works with the combination of Google Checkout + cartmanager. Most anyone can be approved for Google Checkout.

In any case PayPal is NOT mandatory for Ebay sales in Canada
Accepted payments policy

your may also get a merchant account and have it approved by Ebay. I provide a special tech support on getting a merchant account and having it approved by Ebay.

[Modee]

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