eBay drops PayPal as first choice for payments

I too have bought and sold on eBay, not to any great extent - probably sold a dozen or so things over the last few years. Never felt screwed over by them or had any real problems with them. Same when I buy, which I do far more often. Very rarely had a transaction that wasn't straightforward and successful.
 
Frankly, Ebay screws over their actual bread and butter — the sellers. I've had Ebay customer service flat out say they will side with the buyer even if the buyer breaks Ebay's own rules regarding returns, for example. But it's the seller who provides all the money through fees that are applied to the seller only and not the buyer.

I can't figure it out, but I have a special (though tiny) hatred for Ebay because of it.
 
smartcooky said:
I wont be changing from Paypal anytime soon.

I see no reason why I need to give my CC details to more than one organisation, thereby at least doubling my exposure to fraud.

Pretty much, if the selling site doesn't have Paypal, I don't buy, and I look for another seller that does.
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There should be a system where you give an organisation a number. That number can only be used once for a specific transaction. Then fraud cannot easily happen.

Of course if the merchant has your card then the current system still works.
 
I haven't used paypal since they fraudulently took $1,000. from my bank account. My bank got it back within days. However, it involved a rare lithograph I sold to a man. It was a certified original print. The buyer informed paypal that he didn't believe the certification was authentic, therefore he was keeping the print and his money.

That was about 6 years ago. I would be happy to see ebay have other options, because I had enjoyed selling.
 
I've bought and sold on Ebay and Gunbroker since 2001.

There are steps you can take on both platforms to protect yourself as a seller but there is no way to protect yourself 100%.

I have one negative feedback on Ebay. It came from a buyer who immediately accused me of "ripping him off" and refused to submit payment for the Randall Made knife he won the auction for and posted the negative feedback. I forwarded his refusal to pay message to Ebay. They did not charge me the winning auction fee but the negative feedback wasn't removed.

On Gunbroker, I had an auction for a particularly rare semi-auto rifle, listed in the fed Curio and Relic list. The winning bid was close to five figures. That's when the fun started. Buyer submitted FFL license that wasn't current. Buyer sent payment via certified check that was never received. By the time it shook out that the buyer couldn't complete the transaction and I notified GB of the non-paying bidder it was "too late" for GB to refund their charge on the winning bid amount, and they did nothing that I'm aware of to sanction the NPB...I took that as a lesson and from then on any auction I list on GB requires the winning bidder to either do a wire transfer or payment in full via paper within 96 hours of the auction closing.
 
wasapi said:
I haven't used paypal since they fraudulently took $1,000. from my bank account. My bank got it back within days. However, it involved a rare lithograph I sold to a man. It was a certified original print. The buyer informed paypal that he didn't believe the certification was authentic, therefore he was keeping the print and his money.

That was about 6 years ago. I would be happy to see ebay have other options, because I had enjoyed selling.
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Was that a sale through Ebay? I have returned items I bought on Ebay, but the refund wasn't credited until the item was received by the seller. How could the buyer keep the money AND the print? If that's the policy, it seems like it would encourage rampant fraud.
 
I've pretty much given up on ebay, much prefer alibarba except for local buys, alibarba accepts paypal in most cases. The only issue is many sellers have high minimum order numbers, but a quick search through similar items usually finds a seller that has low MON
As long as alibarba has paypal, I doubt paypal will disappear
 
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