Home Forums Gear Free Classifieds What's the fascination with postal money orders?

If they won’t take a bank check, fuuuck em!

Actually I have bought and sold stuff and have never asked for PP fees ever. If the fees matter so much the why don't people add them to their asking price in the beginning so as to not look like cheap bastards. You can't tell me that paying a full 3.00 per 100.00 in sales is going matter all that much. I just don't understand that mentality.

There are multiple ways of doing things for a reason.
None are right or wrong for everyone , and that’s OK !
Bottom line is it’s the sellers choice of anything to specify how they want payment . If that doesn’t suit you move along .

Same here. Seller has the option of what they prefer. Myself I've excepted a boat load of personal checks from the good members here and yet to have a problem. I had 1 check come where 1/4 of the envelope and check was missing,my bank still cashed it.

Besides my most recent swearing off of paypal completely, I always did all I could to avoid letting those anti-gun sonsabitches profit from any transaction involving yours truly...which meant using F&F. IOW, a matter of principle much like my avoidance of certain household products marketed by anti-gun cretins.

I always figured that god invented the postal money order for guys with cash that mama doesn’t know about. Keeps it out of the household funds. lol

Truth......

I had this thought too. Maybe people think the IRS can't track their "income" through postal money orders? If this is true, some may not understand just how much info the IRS have access to. They certainly have access to any/all accounts. The IRS also have a very broad interpretation of income, they even count credit card/airline reward miles as income now. . . . I suppose straight cash or barter is the best way to stay off the IRS radar?

I don't know but if a seller insists on sending me to that communist sh ! t hole full of lazy liberal fk's to get a money order I can get at HEB or Kroger in less than 10 minutes I don't need their sh ! t.

River Rider - except I wasn't responding to your comment about tampering or counterfeiting a money order.

I accept personal CK's

Haven't got screwed yet

MO's are a PIA to purchase in my opinion

This is pretty much where I'm at as well. Never had a problem with personal checks, PayPal or money orders, and have been on the Campfire a long time now.

However, when I put something on the Campfire Classifieds it's because I WANT to sell it. Why make it harder for a potential buyer?

Can kinda understand somebody wanting money orders if they're trying to hide gun buys, etc., from "the wife." But both my wife and I have separate bank accounts, both for our businesses and personal stuff, and she couldn't care less about me buying (or selling) another firearm.

On the other hand, I don't have much problem using USPS money orders if that's what the seller wants. But I live in a small town, and go to the post office every day anyway, both to pick up mail and, quite often, ship stuff. So I go through the drive-in window at our bank (three blocks from our house) and cash a check. Take the cash to the PO (which is way over on the other side of town, maybe 12 blocks) and buy a money order. Sometimes I have to wait in line two minutes, but probably half the time there's nobody ahead of me.

I’ve always excepted Personal Checks from fellow 🔥 Members when selling here. Never had a problem.
I won’t use those anti-gun PayPal bastards.

I'd see a lawyer if I had to hide my purchases from my wife! I think she'd do the same. She'd be way more pissed off if she discovered a purchase from my hidden money. Trust has worked for us to 40 years. I kind of feel sorry for some of you that have to operate that way!

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This nails it for me as well.

Postal money orders are a pain in the ass, here you usually stand in line at the Post Office for 20 minutes to get one, my bank charges me $3.00 for a cashiers check. I know PayPal is a bunch of jerks but I'll gladly pay 3% on a $500 deal to avoid the long lines and trouble of rounding up a MO. I have no problem with personal check because in this day and age checks clear over night or at least in a day. I think holding an item for 7 to 10 days is BS Most gun guys on here with history can be trusted, haven't been screwed yet, but I guess my turn is coming.. I'm trusting you when I send you a check without having the item I paid for in hand, so how about showing me the same trust when I send you a check. I don't buy items that the seller demands a MO.

Don’t forget the cranky [bleep] taking your money and the mentioned previously were not a bank!!!! Not enough money come back later.

At least you can probable get free Covid !!!!

That also

I have taken three bad checks over the years, a couple of small ones and one for near $300, in each case they were from long time posters on the site. Since then I have only taken PayPal or Postal MO, the problem with some of the other forms of payment (cashiers checks, etc) is that they can be easily faked.

drover

My feeling as well. I'm more at risk with the number of new people here. I've been here a long time. There are people who will send a gun before they get my check. If something goes wrong in the mail, I can cancel a check and send another one. Not interested in waiting 90 days to get money from a PMO from the bank.

Not surprising, from the guy who sends ammo illegally through the USPS.