I am an online reseller. It is just for fun and a little extra “play money”, but recently I have been having an issue that has made reselling really stressful.
I have multiple platforms on which I sell stationery and kawaii things from Japan to cater to my customers around the world as best I can. I mainly sell via Instagram and on Etsy. Since most of my customers live in the States, I accept both USD and JPY for the currency. I accept payments via PayPal which also allows customers to pay by credit card if they don’t have a PayPal account. I feel like I have given them plenty of options when it comes to payment options.
YET, there are always customers who just want it to be convenient for them. For example, I happen to also have a bunch of Filipino customers. Most of them are great because for some reason they are also really rich. However, some of my Filipino customers ask me if they can pay me in pesos. I don’t live in the Philippines and I don’t have family there. I have no reason to go there unless one of my customers decides to fly me over and let me stay in their gigantic mansion or something. Anyways, I have no way of accepting pesos and definitely no way of using pesos. Sad story is, I cannot accept pesos. Sorry po.
Then, there are customers who want to send me cold hard cash. You know, like the paper kind you use to make transactions at a normal store. No! I won’t accept your cash. I am on ONLINE reseller. The keyword in my job title is “online.” Do you expect your payment to miraculous arrive at my doorstep after traveling thousands of miles through the postal service? No. Grow up. Get a bank account. Apply for a credit card. Use a reloadable credit card. FIGURE SOMETHING OUT. I am trying my best to handle hundreds of other customers. I cannot just cater to just you. Or else, I would have all kinds of currencies in my pocket now. I wouldn’t even be able to use any of them in Japan. Okay, I now realize that maybe I can use those currencies for when I travel, but I don’t even make enough to travel the world.
Let me tell you about PayPal. PayPal is a fabulous payment option. Simply register with either your credit card or bank account. Money is directly taken out of your bank account and used to pay me. You don’t even have to leave your couch to buy all the cute things from Japan. Also, PayPal does the conversion of currencies for you! Tada! You can use your own currency and PayPal will work its magic and pay me in USD or JPY. I don’t think it is all that complicated. Is it?
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