Zelle and cash app

[red dirt shootist]

I'm looking on Facebook marketplace and I see some reloading equip, priced a little too good to be true, and it's in Kansas City. I send a msg to see if the guy would ship, after several hours he comes back and says he'll ship on his dime to make it fair. So I ask how do I pay you and make myself feel protected, he says just do Zelle, then he says you can do cash app. And I say I'll pass. There were other small red flags, but damn, it was a deal. So is Zelle and cash app just a defined no no? I've used Paypal with no problems and CC's, I don't mind gambling with a few bucks, but this was 800.00

 

[xseler]

If in doubt, do without.

 

[JEVapa]

If you don't know the dude, then don't. Once your money goes out, it's gone with zero ability to track it. A lot of folks get ripped off daily.

 

[conditionzero]

If shipped DO NOT pay with anything other than Facebook, or you are SOL if anything happens.

If local, that is ok to pay with Venmo, Cash App after you take possession.

 

[mouthpiece]

zelle does not offer any protection from fraudulent transactions

 

[Pepé Le Pew Pew Pew]

You might try GunTab they keep your payment in escrow until you receive the item and tell them to release it....

 

[mgssamn]

agree. I would do zelle or cash app FTF all the time. But if shipping and you dont know the person I would not do those.

 

[Old Noob]

zelle does not offer any protection from fraudulent transactions

Correct. Ask him to take paypal at the very least.

 

[TerryMiller]

PayPal sucks. The wife used to use it all the time to pay the lot rent for our RV site in the RV park. However, they declined her card once when trying to buy some ammunition, and then they stopped "recognizing" USAA as a banking source, so we could no longer use it to pay our lot rent. She went to CashApp and hasn't had any complaints.

 

[BobbyV]

PayPal sucks. The wife used to use it all the time to pay the lot rent for our RV site in the RV park. However, they declined her card once when trying to buy some ammunition, and then they stopped "recognizing" USAA as a banking source, so we could no longer use it to pay our lot rent. She went to CashApp and hasn't had any complaints.

PayPal won't process any payments for ammo or firearms. They've got those merchant codes blocked. You can use it on Bass Pro (I think) for everything but ammo and firearms.

Hopefully it was just a glitch with them and USAA. We use USAA as a funding source on our PayPal account and haven't had any issues. Only issue I've seen with CashApp is if you use their card it will sometimes be seen as a foreign issued card and be declined by some processors.