UK Paypal Question - accepting only debit cards, not CC

for those of you who've been with it a while

[Macro]

If memory serves me right it used to be the case that you needed a premium/business account to accept money paid to you with a credit card - and that those transactions were more expensive. You did not need to upgrade your account to premium/business if you were accepting money only from people paying with a debit card. For traders dealing in small value transactions where the credit card charge would gobble up the profit it made sense to use the "lower" type of Paypal account.

Now when this trader goes to Paypal and tries to accept money it says:
"The ability to accept credit or debit card funded payments is reserved for Premier and Business accounts"

Credit AND debit cards?! That means he can't accept payment made with a debit card unless he upgrades his account.

Am I seeing things... or has that part of Paypal changed? Are there any threads about this?

[PCInk]

UK? Try NoChex.com or FastPay (part of NatWest).

NoChex charges 99p or 1% whichever is the greatest, when he withdraws the money. Debit cards only.

FastPay I have never used, so I am unsure of their costs.

Neither offer a shopping basket if you use PayPal's though.

[Macro]

PCInk, thanks.

He does also have NoChex for his eBay trades.

I was just curious if anyone knew about when Paypal added debit cards to the restriction.

[gazza]

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[edited by: gazza at 4:49 pm (utc) on Feb. 26, 2004]

[Macro]

gazza, yes thanks. And he's already got a Nochex account.

Am I seeing things... or has that part of Paypal changed? Are there any threads about this?
.....I was just curious if anyone knew about when Paypal added debit cards to the restriction.

Anybody?