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24/7/2008 - From the eBay chat board.....

From the eBay chat board.....

PayPal is Now Required for ALL eBay.com Listings
July 20, 2008

Brewsnews:

It always seems that lately eBay waits until Friday evenings to implement unannounced policies. Yesterday evening, several eBay sellers began receiving a rather odd message when attempting to list items. The warning states:

“Because of your limited transaction history on eBay, you must offer PayPal or a merchant credit card as a payment method for this listing. PayPal is the safer, easier way to receive payments on eBay.

Some payments may be held in your account to ensure smooth transactions. PayPal will release the hold after 21 days without a buyer dispute, claim, chargeback or other action. The hold may be released earlier if either of the following occurs:

Buyer leaves positive Feedback.

3 days after PayPal confirms item delivery.

Today, we even received the message when attempting to list items. Now, I just know the message could not apply to us — we do not have a limited transaction history on eBay since we have been selling on eBay 10+ years and sell thousands of items a month. And the message seems even more odd because the warning appears on our listings that are PayPal Required. The ONLY payment option we offer is PayPal but yet we received the warning message telling us that our listings must offer PayPal.

I spoke with Powerseller Support today at length about this issue. What was explained to me is that eBay.com (ebay U.S.) is going to eventually require ALL sellers to offer PayPal unless they have a merchant account. I inquired as to why no formal announcement was made and never really received a response.

Previously, eBay has stated that they require sellers to accept Paypal if:

1. They sell in certain high risk categories, or;

2. They registered as sellers after January 1, 2007, or;

3. They have limited selling history (infrequent seller).

It seems that eBay has decided to now require ALL sellers to offer a “secure” payment method which is defined only as PayPal or a Merchant Account. Of course, no formal policy announcement has been made by eBay.

When I pushed for more information from the Powerseller rep, he stated that the warning message was simply informational at this time. However, I have received emails from sellers who have informed me that their eBay listings are being blocked unless they agree to accept PayPal.

I was informed by the Powerseller rep that, during this “informational” period, ALL sellers will be seeing the warning message about 2% of the time they attempt to list an item. I asked why I would have received the informational warning message when all of my listings offered only PayPal as a payment option. I was told that this PayPal warning message is also meant to inform every seller about the 21-day hold policy. As I predicted in my last blog post, eBay sellers will soon see an alarming increase in the number of 21-day holds. This is probably eBay’s way of making sure they are laying the groundwork to be able to later say they did inform us.

It sure is rather disconcerting, though, to get the warning message from eBay. It is further evidence that eBay is at war with its sellers. There is absolutely no need for eBay to be so harsh with its good sellers. When eBay communicates their new policies in such an unexpected and negative manner, it sure makes it difficult for sellers to continue to have a positive attitude about selling on eBay.

Why does eBay not just make an announcement that eBay.com is going “PayPal Only” for any seller who does not have a Merchant Account? There is no need to threaten good sellers and there definitely is no need to “warn” sellers who already take PayPal, especially long-term sellers who have outstanding reputations on eBay. I should probably be shocked at eBay’s lack of common (business) sense but, at this point, nothing eBay does surprises me anymore. That is really the most shocking statement of all.

Unannounced policy change, and they're lining people up now with their pop up when you try to list.

Glitch? Apparently not. \

Bob

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