I had to disable those auto payments on eBay, was hard to figure out how to
Mr_Spud
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You know how eBay put in that autopay for some auctions a while bank. Well, it accidently caused me to overdraw on my dedicated coin back account. I usually buy things on eBay using PayPal Credit, and then I do a transfer to my coin bank account at my leisure when I want to make a payment. Well about a month ago the autopay changed my preferred payments from PayPal Credit to regular PayPal that’s linked to the same bank account.
So the other day I decided to try and turn off that autopay. But no matter what I tried I couldn’t turn it off on eBay. But I figured out how to turn off autopay from eBay on my PayPal account. So now I go on eBay and if I won an auction I get a message from eBay saying I won an auction but the payment failed. And now the item shows up in my cart like it used to, and I can pay using PayPal Credit again. So it’s all good now. That’s crazy that you can’t turn it off on eBay like that.
Mr_Spud
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You can.
I couldn’t figure out how to, but was easy to block on PayPal
Mr_Spud
Yes, that also works.
I usually pay from my eBay credits, and if I exceed them the balance goes to my CC.
In 2022, ebay made some overnight change where my shipping labels were billed to an old PayPal account I had in like 2014 or something. Obviously it didn't go through, but I managed to catch a permaban on my actual main account and my venmo. They won't tell me why and won't reverse it. But I find it hard to believe that shipping label thing wasn't related. I never broke their TOS or anything.
I hope they get regulated into non existence. What a garbage service.
I figured out how to turn off autopay from eBay on my PayPal account.
I too blocked eBay access to using my PayPal account thru PayPal.
I've noticed now that when you pay for an eBay item using PayPal that you get a pop up asking if you would like to buy this other (unrelated) item thru PayPal now.
Be very careful of what button you push or you could end up paying instantly for an unwanted item.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Way easier when Ebay claimed to be no more than an online classified service.
Now they are Big Brother.