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shocked on ebay: seller blocked me claiming PayPal is fraudulent and eBay is not
Halcyon:
Didn't ebay stop payment processing years ago in some countries, in favour of Paypal?
Someone:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 29, 2022, 03:33:53 am ---Didn't ebay stop payment processing years ago in some countries, in favour of Paypal?
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It flips back and forth, at one point they required every seller to offer PayPal (buyers "choice" but PayPal was so heavily defaulted/promoted that most sales went through it). They did own PayPal at one point..... now they don't own PayPal and have setup their own payment system which funnels the money though a single choke point to make it easier to extract the sellers fees (and slows down payments to sellers, and requires sellers to send packages before they have the money).
Next year it'll probably be something different again!
JPortici:
--- Quote from: Someone on November 29, 2022, 03:39:04 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 29, 2022, 03:33:53 am ---Didn't ebay stop payment processing years ago in some countries, in favour of Paypal?
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It flips back and forth, at one point they required every seller to offer PayPal (buyers "choice" but PayPal was so heavily defaulted/promoted that most sales went through it). They did own PayPal at one point..... now they don't own PayPal and have setup their own payment system which funnels the money though a single choke point to make it easier to extract the sellers fees (and slows down payments to sellers, and requires sellers to send packages before they have the money).
Next year it'll probably be something different again!
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AND (at least here) require the seller to link a bank account to ebay. That is a big nono for me. I sell probably one thing a year and between the ever increasing fees, and the fees of a separate bank account if i want to keep thinks insualted, the fact that it doesn't let me use real prices for shipping but only their suggested ones (believe me i tried), i just don't want to bother. I'll run over the damn thing if i can't give it away. Or use other platforms, facebook marketplace has been much more effective.
It's no wonder all (most) individuals selling used stuff have disappeared, in ebay europe at least, there are a tiny fraction of what used to be before ebay changed the payment scheme.
Ice-Tea:
--- Quote from: wraper on November 28, 2022, 03:40:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on November 28, 2022, 02:26:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: wraper on November 28, 2022, 02:08:31 pm ---**snip** specially if it's an occasional seller who does not pay for store subscription**snip
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Doesn't make a difference.
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How it does not make a difference when ebay fee is 2-2.5 times lower for many categories (computers and parts in particular) with a store subscription.
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Let me rephrase: doesn't make a difference for me (selling T&M).
DiTBho:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 29, 2022, 03:10:25 am ---I'm not sure what trusting ebay has to do with receiving a damaged bicycle. If you had bypassed ebay you might have been left holding the bag.
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How such a seller can have negative feedbacks *REMOVED* if he/she sells junk?
What does eBay do about trust? You can't share any videos to check the quality of the product you're willing to buy, you can't request a face-to-face interview on Skype, you just have to "trust" their ridiculous feedback system, and I don't know how, but the seller cleaned up and it's not the first time I've seen this happen.
I didn't go over eBay on that occasion, couldn't phone the seller as eBay blocks phone numbers(1), and at the end of the month I had nothing but more money down the drain than if I had dealt directly with the seller!
(1) if you write it in a PM, the message is automatically deleted
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