I asked a co-worker today how her husband, who also works in our library, will handle it after they to to PayPal only. She doesn't think it will make any difference to him since most of his payments come via PayPal. Actually, since he deals exclusively in one particular item (model trains) and has been doing this long enough there are quite a few transactions with long-time customers that never touch eBay. They trust each other and know what they're doing.

I've read accounts of people setting up their own web sites after learning how to attract web traffic their way via search engines and how to set up secure purchasing sites. But it is more work and you pay to maintain the web site and hire the expert to keep your site running and safe.

SRS