Comments on: eBay begin to enforce paperless payments policy

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:19:24 +0000

What’s a “check”?

By: board_surfer

board_surfer — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:38:48 +0000

20# so your complaining about being caught breaking the rules?

how very odd.

By: DL Hill

DL Hill — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:02:33 +0000

I just recently was contacted by a eBay seller who was chastised for offering to take checks, and they asked why I was getting away with it. Oddly I never worry about the eBay Police because I felt I had nothing to hide. Boy was I wrong! The seller reported me (probably because they were caught and felt I should be punished) and I had over 60 listings pulled. Not so bad except the eBay Customer Jokesters harassed me via phone and email for two days until I informed them I would gladly leave and go elsewhere. Then they refunded my lost listings and acted nice after that. I’m not interested in fighting their “policies” but I will not trust their decision making process ever again. I’ll just take my “superseller feedback and go elsewhere.

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:11:43 +0000

The only way eBay will spot this kind of thing is if someone rats on you.
And they will.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:53:49 +0000

I think to sustain a business on eBay, time is better spent on working out how to work WITH the policies and not on how to go about cheating the system.

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

By: charles

charles — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:46:33 +0000

eBay can “bot” out words like “checks,” or “money orders,” but it can’t interpret things like: “Traditional forms of payment are accepted,” or “Paypal is welcome, but so is everything else. Just contact me.”

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.

By: keithf

keithf — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:42:43 +0000

Listing on eBay Canada instead is possible, with worldwide shipping listings also show up on eBay.com with the same visibility. eBay Canada doesn’t have a paperless payments policy, unless it’s changed recently.

By: Kevin_T

Kevin_T — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:23:13 +0000

Re #12.

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

By: Gojollybill

Gojollybill — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:31:47 +0000

Well, this is an example of why I closed my Ebay Store, The Wizard’s Warehouse, about 8 months ago. Stick it Ebay, I don’t need you. I now have my own website plus presence on other Auction sites that don’t tell me how to do business.

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

By: pete

pete — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:36:26 +0000

#12 Have you got a link to that thread?