[Closed] I wonder if guys who put cars on the auction for sale and will only

Yeah ... I got screwed on a diecast purchase and ...

I got a flat tire

AND ...

I ran out of gas

So Sheet Happens ... it just stays with you

+1. More than 1,200 transactions with PayPal, not a single problem except when I sent over $2500 for one year to my sister overseas, then they blocked her account, took us a month to unlock the account and the money. However that was related to international transfers and some EU restriction for money laundering prevention kicked in.

Personally I think personal checks are almost obsolete. My daughter graduated college and she is now in Medical school, I doubt she has written more than 5 checks in her life. My son is almost 16, he has bank account, Debit card, Paypal account, now driving ... hasn't written a check yet.

Seller, who accepts only PayPal has a reason to do it, please respect their preferences and move on.

+2 George...I am a fan of paypal!

George, the invention of checks eliminated long lines at tellers. And the forming of a clearing house eliminated the need for courriers to hand carry checks to other banks in order to collect funds. Few persons trusted a system that was represented by a piece of paper.

Customers, at first, treated credit cards the same way. Likewise with debit cards and now mistrust companies like Paypal.

I left banking as the branch manager of the third largest branch in our bank system in Arizona. The only time we had lines was on paydays for those who didn't have checking accounts and wanted cash.

Food for thought. Would you accept a personal check for any amount or a hundred dollar bill at a garage sale that you were holding? Ever try to present those methods of payment?

There is still a lot of mistrust - and for good reason.

Back in the day when paying by check was more common place it was not an uncommon sight to see in gas stations a place on some wall, usually by the till, where the business wold tape all the dud checks they had received.
Then sometime latter a trend developed when buinesses refused to take a check at all, both business and personal were verboten.
I have no way of knowing if this iz true or not, but I do suspect that while electronic banking does come with risks the check does also and no skill is required, any fool can steal a check book and leave a trail of dud checks clear accross the state before anybody realises that they have been duped.
With this so called cashless society getting closer by the day, checks will probably go the way of the Doe Doe bird, extinct and gone forever, never to be missed.