Paypal and Shipping

I plan to sell some gear and AS guns online but I've never done it before. How does paypal work and are there any charges for using it. Also, how would you ship AS guns through the mail? For reference, I will mostly ship within my state using UPS.

Moved, this has nothing to do with the act of playing airsoft; so its off topic(for future reference).

sticks

Sorry about that.

Once you sign up with Paypal and all that you just supply the buyer with your e-mail address and they enter it in their Paypal account to send you the money which goes to your Paypal account. You'll need to link your back account to Paypal in order to transfer that money to it. If you sell something and take payment through Paypal you the seller will have a percentage taken out of the payment by Paypal. I think it's something like 3% but it's been awhile since i've used it.

As for shipping an AS gun i don't think there's any restrictions as long as it has the orange tip and is staying in the States. Not 100% though but i've shipped several paintball guns and never had a problem.

Be very careful when shipping replica firearms/ordinance/props...

I shipped a Cyma Glock 18, almost completely disassembled, and few days later I got an email from FEDEX saying my package was intercepted by law enforcement...I was given a warning, but It could have gone worse. I thought taking the thing apart would be enough and didnt put an orange marker on the barrel (the darn thing didnt come with one in the first place!).

As for payment through paypal, I'm quite sure you can link your account to a Visa "gift card"...but I'm not 100% sure. If someone can find that out, it would help me out too...thats the only thing stopping me from using PP...I'm not going to give out my credit/debit info...I'm sure PP is secure, but they have yet to proved that to me.

I've had good luck with M/O's for the most part...until recently...
If you do use that method for payment, be sure you know the recieving party and have a safe method for shipping the replica.

I'll keep watching this thread, it seems like it would be useful information.

Sticky worthy???

Can you still receive payment from a buyer if your PayPal account is just linked to your card and not your bank account?