Current PayPal Update For Card Sellers

storm888

If anybody has any current news on any of this, please add it.


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For more than a week, I have been hearing that the pending
electronic-payments only scheme is likely to be delayed past
October 19. One heretofore reliable person says that sometime
in January is likely.

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Merchant Accounts and Checkout Integration:

As most know, any MA that is used on EBAY after January must
be fully-integrated with EBAY checkout. Stand-alone MAs will
not be accepted as a PP alternative.

For more than a month, I have been trying to get COSTCO to
respond to my inquiry on the integration issue. Yesterday, I
learned from another of their customers that COSTCO providers
"currently have no plans to participate in the EBAY-checkout integration
program." (This is NOT confirmed,)

My local bank laughed in my face when I asked about the matter.
They said, NO."

("Integration" is designed to keep the paying-customer inside
of the EBAY payment platform during checkout.)

If you are signing up for an expensive MA, make sure it will be
accepted by EBAY before you sign the deal.

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Local Pickups:

This is bad.

On LPU items, EBAY is now insisting that "PayPal must be offered
as a listed payment option."

There will be NO Seller Protection in such transactions. A scamster
can pay with PP, pickup the item, and immediately file an INR claim.
Because there is no PP-acceptable "proof of delivery," the scamster
will get a refund and keep the item.

PP's suggestion is that sellers "buy business insurance that covers
these rare problems."

The problem is that no insurance policy that I am aware of will pay
a claim that is based on a loss suffered while engaged in "high risk
transactions." A local pickup with a PP buyer IS "high risk."

If this issue is not resolved, the remaining EBAY "drop-off and consignment
centers" will be out of the game.


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Uphill

Talk about taking a great idea (eBay) and trying to ruin it (eBay).

Edited to add: It boggles my mind when I read about the changes they make.

Leiascards

I heard an easy way around the DC thing on local pick-up, though maybe not entirely ethichal, but we are talking about protecting us from fraud. Many sellers take Paypal and mail the paperwork to the buyer using whatever form of documentation is required.

Paypal has no way of knowing the original shipping weight of the item unless the postage is printed through them. I know many sellers who have done this and won a false INR claim when the item was picked up locally.

storm888

"...Many sellers take Paypal and mail the paperwork to the buyer using whatever form of documentation is required.... "

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I have heard that too, when the sold items are small.
The seller puts a packing-slip in a bubble-mailer with DC.

It may be less certain to fly on REALLY LARGE items.

Certainly worth trying.

storm888

There is now a confirmed "de facto" extension on the electronic payments only scheme.

An extension to January 15 has been granted for "the removal of paper-payment options"
from EBAY listings.

ping4u43

My ?? is, how can they deny my option to offer CC's with my MA? If buyer so desires can't they just contact me? Pay CC and I ship item.

storm888

<< <i>My ?? is, how can they deny my option to offer CC's with my MA? If buyer so desires can't they just contact me? Pay CC and I ship item. >>




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You can do that, but........


IF there is a "failure to checkout rate" higher than about 4%, EBAY
will "investigate and take appropriate action."

They want to keep ALL checkouts on their platform.