Can eBay squeeze more out of sellers?
EBay has implemented a policy that seems aimed at eliminating the use of personal PayPal accounts for collecting funds on EBay transactions. As a result, EBay sellers must pay the standard PayPal credit card fee even when buyers pay with funds from their own PayPal account.
“For a long time, I found EBay a valuable service,” a reader recently wrote. “I don’t have a huge history, but I’ve done over a hundred transactions since 1998, buying more than selling. And I’ve been happy to use what became EBay’s PayPal service in helping process my transactions. This is about to change for me. I posted four auctions recently, and within less than 24 hours, all had been removed. I was clueless as to why, until I received an e-mail from EBay.”
The e-mail informed him that his auctions had been taken down because he stated in them that he accepted PayPal only for non-credit card payments. “Sellers who offer PayPal as a payment option in the listing process must accept all forms of PayPal payment, without restriction,” the EBay e-mail told him. “Sellers must have a Premier or Business PayPal Account or be willing to upgrade from a Personal PayPal Account to a Premier or Business Account if sellers receive a credit card payment. Sellers may not communicate to buyers that they accept, or will not accept, specific forms of PayPal payment. Please be aware that you are not required to use PayPal as an accepted form of payment for your listings. However, we hope that you will realize the protection and convenience that PayPal offers.”
storefront101 on March 7th, 2006 9:37 am
PPPay through the ebid network is there for those small time sellers.
using ebid is cheaper and much better for buyers and sellers as the huge fees that ebay charge are not there with ebid.
PPpay charge 3p per pound, instead of the 36p then 10p that paypal charge.
Christine on March 7th, 2006 12:00 pm
Hey I enjoyed your article very much! I am a big ebay user and I hate how ebay takes a cut and then transactions through paypal take a cut ugh – and then I’ve had the same problem with them telling me to upgrade to a Premier/ Business account ^.^ Nice post!
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