Cash, Check or Money Order Payment Options?

[wildpitchsports]

With all of the outrage over the new $600 1099-K reporting apparently people are finding out en masse about this week, I saw on twitter someone suggest cash, check, money order or Western Union as a payment option.

This used to be a real thing pre-PayPal.

Share your horror stories here and why that won't work in 2022. Ready ? Go.

[slati_2013]

How you get paid makes no difference. The amount eBay will report for items recorded as sold will be the same. 

[wrong66]

The horror stories start when you state in your listings that you accept those forms of payment.

[alcoforever]

As a buyer, if I saw a listing that specified only cash, check or MO, I would hit the back button.

As a seller, never had a problem with those forms of payment.

[southern*sweet*tea]

You can get paid in chickens, but the sale is still recorded and has to be reported. Always has been, always will be.  Decades ago I got paid in cash, checks and money orders. They were still reported.  The payment method doesn't matter.

[wildpitchsports]

Remember all the listings:

1. PERSONAL CHECK MUST CLEAR BEFORE SHIPPING !

2. Negative feedback to a buyer - BOUCNES CHECK - BEWARE!

3. Negative feedback to seller - SENT CASH NEVER RECEIVED

[wildpitchsports]

I didn't either surprisingly.

[mrdutch1001]

you really think that's going to be your savior? Give your head a shake man, trying to avoid this ain't gonna do it! No matter what the payment you can't hide from the IRS. Y'all gonna have to stop hidin' them monies you been gettin away with not declaring on your income taxes all these years...

We're all finding out who you are and the joke is on you!

[wildpitchsports]

Dude, chill. This is meant to be a nostalgia post tying in the current climate to what someone suggested. Clearly we don't work that way any more and haven't for almost 2 decades. 

[buyselljack2016]

Never took checks, never will.

Did get cash in an envelope on more than one occasion. Worked out fine for all involved. Cash always cleared without a wait.

[mrdutch1001]

whatever...

silliness abounds and whatever horror stories u are looking for are more likely to exist now more than then...because it is in the NOW that folks are blaming eBay for having to declare their internet sales monies, even tho they were supposed to be doing since the time they began to sell on the internet.

This whole topic is so laughable, so keep it going so the rest of us can have our daily laugh.

[buyselljack2016]

Back in the day I did have a buyer that sent a check. (early 2000's)

My listings stated USPS money order.

Check was returned.

Buyer was appalled that I would not accept a personal check from a college professor.

[7606dennis]

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@buyselljack2016 wrote:

Never took checks, never will.

Did get cash in an envelope on more than one occasion. Worked out fine for all involved. Cash always cleared without a wait.

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Actually, back in the day I had less trouble from personal checks than echecks.

Frankly, I'm old enough to remember having to keep counter checks from all the local banks at my B&M location to accommodate all my customers.  Of course, that was a small town and most of my customers were farmers from the rural community. 

[7606dennis]

Of course, the use of checks or money orders would still leave a paper trail.  In fact, selling online automatically creates the equivalent of paper trail electronically.  Cash might work if you were selling out of the trunk of your car in some back alley, but even then one would run into the problem having to launder the money.  

Of course, since such payments are and haven't been permitted on eBay for the most part for many years,  one would probably not be able to sell on eBay anyway.

[wildpitchsports]

e-checks!! Why did they always seem to clear slower than regular ones??!