PayPal will now be holding your money for "21 days or more"
IF EBAY "suspects that this transaction may result in an unsatisfactory buyer experience."
Your PayPal money will also be held "for 21 days or longer," if your DSR #s are "sub par."
Petitions are circulating to stop the maddness. I STRONGLY recommend that NO SELLERS sign ANY of the petitions. EBAY has a very long record of retaliating against dissident sellers.
Again........
DO NOT SIGN THE PETITIONS
Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
And isn't it o-so-nice that Paypal can hold your money hostage for something that occurs on eBay now more than ever. Did anyone see that coming? And where will it stop?
I see your point, that basing the 'bad people' on the group numbers alone you'll wind up with more bad buyers than sellers. I think eBay has considered that without the buyers, there would be no eBay, so the buyers are the group they are interested in keeping happy.
I think that these changes should be put in place, but I also think that eBay should eliminate their 'we don't tamper in feedback' rules. If a buyer is a habitual 'negative feedback giver', maybe they should start checking into why they are leaving so many negatives. If the seller can provide proof that the buyer's claims in the feedback are bogus, eBay should remove the feedback and give the bad buyer a strike on their account. If a buyer leaves several negatives (maybe 3-6 in a 6 month period), they should have their account temporarily held to see what is happening. Maybe they have a crappy postman? Maybe they're really that unlucky? Maybe they're scamming the sellers? Ebay don't want to admit it, but if they can use the "You are entering into a binding contract" wording in their bidding/buying process, they are not removed from the blame in bad transactions between buyers and sellers.
I just read the DSR/PayPal can hold your money part.... Guess they figure they can accrue a little more interest on the money by forcing it to stay there for 21 days. Guess I might as well open a money market account on my PP account now so I can get some interest while it's sitting there waiting to be released. All the more reason to use the BST boards here.
true, i can just cancel my paypal as far as that goes and save $ it looks like to me, i can open $ sent to me in the mail all day, paypal is convienient,dont get me wrong, but with ebay and paypal fees coming and going , they got you by the balls, and they know it
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IF EBAY "suspects that this transaction may result in an unsatisfactory
buyer experience."
Your PayPal money will also be held "for 21 days or longer," if your
DSR #s are "sub par."
Petitions are circulating to stop the maddness. I STRONGLY recommend
that NO SELLERS sign ANY of the petitions. EBAY has a very long record
of retaliating against dissident sellers.
Again........
DO NOT SIGN THE PETITIONS
Looking for Charlie (Charley) Maxwell cards.
I think that these changes should be put in place, but I also think that eBay should eliminate their 'we don't tamper in feedback' rules. If a buyer is a habitual 'negative feedback giver', maybe they should start checking into why they are leaving so many negatives. If the seller can provide proof that the buyer's claims in the feedback are bogus, eBay should remove the feedback and give the bad buyer a strike on their account. If a buyer leaves several negatives (maybe 3-6 in a 6 month period), they should have their account temporarily held to see what is happening. Maybe they have a crappy postman? Maybe they're really that unlucky? Maybe they're scamming the sellers? Ebay don't want to admit it, but if they can use the "You are entering into a binding contract" wording in their bidding/buying process, they are not removed from the blame in bad transactions between buyers and sellers.
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When GOOG opens an online store/auction site.
In other words, NEVER.
Ebay is just trying to force everyone to have to accept Paypal which is not a problem. I am still hung up on the sellers cannot leave negs.
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