how very odd.

…I do like the “Traditional forms of payment are accepted” though

It is also possible to create a jpg that reads “Checks and Money Order Are Acceptable,” and post it with your listing. The only way eBay will spot this kind of thing is if someone rats on you.

I changed my terminology on my US dollar auctions from “Please check my other auctions for more…..” to “Please view my other auctions for more…..”.

When I was looking for something else on the US Seller Central board about two months ago, a seller claimed that they could not list an old celebrity signed money order, because the listing contained the term “money order”. (I haven’t saved the link). There can be good money in celebrity signed checks/cheques, but it may be less of a hassle to list them as “signed financial instruments”, or some such.

Kind Regards, Kevin

Judging by Ebay’s results in the last few months they will be history before too much longer and Mr. D will be selling pencils on the sidewalk to pay his rent.
My two cents
Bill

We’re making the filters as smart as possible to take context into account. For example, we might block on the phrase “personal check” instead of “check” because it is more clearly a paper payment method.

It’s not in the main description anyway but it is in the tick boxes (ok hidden from .com) and the GBP UK Bank bit etc. is in the Sellers Payment Instructions. Again if the .com policy is to be applied then it would be in breach.

Also remember that customers anyplace on earth could be buying through .com.

Personally I’m a great believer that “Item Description” means “Item Description” and nothing else. No T’s and C’s, no payment terms, not shipping information, no nothing that doesn’t relate directly to the product concerned.

There’s enough other boxes on eBay (especially if you make use of the additional payment info, returns info and business seller info sections) for required content. Plus everyone knows that buyers never read listings anyway (generalisation or truth?) – the more spurious non-descriptive information that’s in the description the faster they’ll scroll past and ignore it.

They need to know who to make the cheque payable to and where to send it!

I do state that cheques must be in GBP and drawn on a UK bank.

Have only ever had 1 dollar cheque in error.

Viewing the same item on eBay.com hides the cheque payment method leaving just PayPal available.

I guess you still might want to remove references to cheques/checks from your listing description and payment instructions though to be totally safe. Would be very nice to have what’s allowed/banned confirmed!

Have just revived my PS thread from 10/08. Have also emailed eBay directly.

FWIW I have a sneaking suspicion that though eBay.com *might* filter for “checks”, they probably won’t filter for “cheques”, so you might just get away with it. But that’s a big assumption and even if I’m right, they’ll get wise eventually.

So for now, I think trial and error is the only way to go, and if we ever get an answer out of eBay, it’ll certainly be posted ASAP.

And can .com users access International Shop items that take cheques?

Asked about this around 2 months ago on UK PS board. It was ‘taken away’ by Pink James but nothing further was heard.