Ebay and Paypal

[EDBANGER]

I have sold something through Ebay and the buyer has selected 'buy now'. The money has been paid into Paypal in Euros by some foreign name and is 'being held' until postage. What does this mean? Can he receive the item, claim it's not been sent and get his money back?
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If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, you are the sucker.

[J0Al1]

Dont post it until you get your money - phone pay pal and ask them what that means.

[EDBANGER]

Hmmmm through investigation it seems that ebay hold the payment until proof of delivery or positive feedback are received if you have been a member for less than 6 months or have under 100 feedbacks. I don't like that at all.
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If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, you are the sucker.

[cammy mack]

mark the item as sent, wait till the payment goes through then send it

or, email the buyer and tell him/her that your not posting item till payment has cleared

[effit]

I had something similar with this. If its a mobile phone or something that is very popular on Ebay, they hold payment for 20 days or until the buyer leaves a positive feedback for the item. Double check with paypal though.

[J0Al1]

[pa_broon74]

eBay is getting to the point where you'd be a fool to use it. UK law states that once an item has been posted the poster's responsibility ends.

This leaves new (probably green) sellers open to massive amounts of fraud. All a potential buyer has to do is find someone with less than 100 feedback, buy their high priced item, say it never arrived and paypal will come down on the side of the buyer because the seller was 'new.'

eBay/paypal isn't worth using any more. The potential savings and makings (which I reckon are imaginery) are outweighed by the risk you take with the crazy system of rules that are in place, (which also contravene so many UK statutes it's hard to unbelievable.)


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Didn't catch anything.

[sickpup]

[pa_broon74]

[aaronb74]

Ebay seems to be doing everything in its power to make life difficult for sellers.

I recently decided to sell some old PS2 games since they had a free listings day. During this time I discovered you can no longer set a price for postage in some categories; instead it's determined by the average price. In the case of a £5 game, you have to offer free postage. Adding the cost of postage onto the overall price means a higher final value fee. Then, of course, there are the PayPal fees, as you apparently can't not accept PayPal.

Oh, and you can't leave negative feedback if you are a seller. What genius thought up that one?


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