8mm Forum: Ebay's New Policy

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Posted by Bob Pucci (Member # 8) on May 23, 2012, 06:33 PM:

On ebay's new buyer protection policy,Why don't they let me use paypal as a back-up payment since I'm already using paypal to pay my fees there.They want me to use a credit card or am I doing something wrong.Thanks

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 23, 2012, 08:23 PM:

Paypal is the first and only payment allowed by EBay rules. If your checking acct that is linked to your paypal doesn't have enought money to cover the transaction, they use the CC and charge the needed amt. to it. It can also be used to pay any fees if there is not enough money in the linked account.

Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on May 23, 2012, 08:35 PM:

Pat, there are a few other e-payment options.

Here is a link to the "accepted payments policy" page

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 24, 2012, 03:27 AM:

Thanks for the correction Wayne. But I wouldn't be surprised if EBay owns them also!

PatD

Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on May 26, 2012, 08:09 PM:

I still take checks or money orders from people when they ask [Big Grin]

The other forms of e-payments are either for real businesses or so obscure no one uses them anyhow...so in a sense...PayPal IS the only for of e-payment.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on May 26, 2012, 09:22 PM:

I even take cash in the envelope. No paypal fees [Big Grin]

Wayne...nocheck is working. I found that one 8mm Ebay seller in UK (rajket) is using this.

Plus "Credit card or debit card processed through the seller's Internet merchant account" is widely used too.

So basically paypal is not alone.

ps: in Canada we have INTERAC which works similar to paypal but using bank account instead of credit card.

Posted by Mark L Barton (Member # 1512) on May 29, 2012, 10:11 AM:

Ebay is a nightmare for sellers nowadays. The feedback system is a joke as you cannot leave a negative for an awful buyer. Recently I sold a none working laptop, which included Ebays own 'spares or repairs' template clearly stating does not work etc. I also reiterated in the ad that the laptop did not work. Anyway it sold, within a few days the monies paid by the buyer had been pulled from my Paypal account as the buyer, get this, complained that the item did'nt work!?! WHAT! And Ebay allowed her moan to escalate almost to the point of her keeping the machine and the purchase money being returned to her. As a 100% positive Ebayer I did not want any come back, as she could have left me a spiteful negative for no reason. The trouble with Ebay is that it suggests to a certain minority , known as the microscope brigade, that all sellers are businesses offering warrantees and brand new items. The credo that Ebay was a place to buy and sell has long gone. One day Ebay/Paypal will dissapear up their own collective........

Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on May 29, 2012, 12:18 PM:

Mark,
I share your views about eBay. It's so heavily weighted towards the buyer that I'm surprised that this hasn't been challenged legally as an unfair and unenforcible form of contract.
Being held to ransom because a buyer is too stupid or lazy to read the listing details is unacceptable

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