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Topic: .. and now, the sad ebay surprise ...
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 24, 2012 09:40 PM
After posting earlier today, I decided to finally call ebay customer support to find out exactly why Steph and I are being penalyzed, and I was surprised by the answer.
It turns out it was neither of our faults and according to ebays new policy, there's no way the little guys can avoid it.
According to the lady I talked to today, (very polite, by the way), if you have fewer than 25 transactions in a year as a seller, ebay will automatically hold each and every payment to secure proper transactions. I asked her if there was any blemish on any of our transactions and she replied none.
In other words, it dosn't matter how honest or reliable you are as a seller, no matter how reliable you are with shipping or how honest your policies are.
If you have under 25 sales, you are automatically placed in the "we hold your money for three or four weeks club" on every transaction.
The logic (or lack of it) astounds ...
Therefore, if tyou have more than 25, you could be as crooked as the day is long, but you well earned dollars will not be held by ebay.
Apparantly, it's really all a plot to get the seller to sell more items, therefore, ebay makes more money, as they make a portion on every tranaaction, and that's whats really going on here.
The customer servcice rep did say our account did seem o fall between ther cracks, as the rulew was really meant to deal with bad sellers, but it labels any seller under 25 sales per year as a "bad seller".
So, if you are a constant ebay seller, you have nothing to worry about, but us little guys will get screwed.
By the way, this must be a policy that was initiated about a month ago, as we never ran into this before, as the customer service rep acknowledged that we have been there with this account foir three years.
Your thoughts, folks ...
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 25, 2012 12:19 PM
Yes, it has to be under 25 sales in a calendar year.
Now, I'm sure that there are a myriad of ways for an ebay seller to get on a bad list and have thier funds held for the longest time, but this is a new policy that doesn't take into account how good of a seller you are; it's just, as stated earlier, ebay's way of attempting to make more money
... not for you, but for ebay.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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