Comments on: PayPal reserves, holds : policy changes explained http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Fri, 25 May 2012 16:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Microsciences http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24513 Microsciences Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:38:34 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24513 I generally buy and sell used sport car parts and used lab equipment. This is high risk? I've never had a complaint or a negative rating yet sale just made for $28.00 is being held. The customer paid the shipping but I have to fund it until its released. I found an alternative, I think in Paymate and will definitely check out google auctions. I still haven't figured out what gives Paypal the right to inject themselves into a transaction as a possible arbitor without taking any responsibility for the outcome. If you had a problem with goods you bought at Macy's, could you go to their bank and ask for your money back? I don't think that one works very well. Unfortunately, there are so many users that its impossible to get a significant number together to boycott Paypal until they rescinded the policy. And, as far as I can tell from the policy agreement, Paypal can put the money they hold in an interest bearing account, take the additional revenue and give you nothing of what they've earned by using your money. How is this a good thing for the seller? I generally buy and sell used sport car parts and used lab equipment. This is high risk? I’ve never had a complaint or a negative rating yet sale just made for $28.00 is being held. The customer paid the shipping but I have to fund it until its released. I found an alternative, I think in Paymate and will definitely check out google auctions. I still haven’t figured out what gives Paypal the right to inject themselves into a transaction as a possible arbitor without taking any responsibility for the outcome.
If you had a problem with goods you bought at Macy’s, could you go to their bank and ask for your money back?
I don’t think that one works very well. Unfortunately, there are so many users that its impossible to get a significant number together to boycott Paypal until they rescinded the policy.
And, as far as I can tell from the policy agreement, Paypal can put the money they hold in an interest bearing account, take the additional revenue and give you nothing of what they’ve earned by using your money. How is this a good thing for the seller?

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24512 Sue Bailey Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:01:48 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24512 Yay for Bryn's account manager :mrgreen: Yay for Bryn’s account manager :mrgreen:

]]> By: Bryn http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24511 Bryn Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:59:27 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24511 Paypal removed the hold after I emailed our account manager Cheers Bryn Paypal removed the hold after I emailed our account manager

Cheers Bryn

]]> By: Cast your votes Google Inc. stock opprotunity http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24510 Cast your votes Google Inc. stock opprotunity Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:59:23 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24510 1 vote for google auctions 1 vote for google auctions

]]> By: MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24509 MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:27:44 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24509 It may all end like Enron with this much heat. However the originator needs to be included with the downfall of the company. Can't let the original employees walk away from problems. WE HIRED THIS COMPANY TO DELIVER THEY ARE OUR EMPLOYEES we paid them to get the job done but they failed. Utterly It may all end like Enron with this much heat. However the originator needs to be included with the downfall of the company. Can’t let the original employees walk away from problems. WE HIRED THIS COMPANY TO DELIVER THEY ARE OUR EMPLOYEES we paid them to get the job done but they failed. Utterly

]]> By: MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24508 MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:22:39 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24508 Yes and left us with a bunch of crap. It was so bad you'd wonder why she left. Now for Governor? She'd mess up California more than she messed up paypal/ebay. She has no control in the end which she lacks heavily. Instead of finishing what she has started she ran off. Now many are effected with her mess. Yes and left us with a bunch of crap. It was so bad you’d wonder why she left. Now for Governor? She’d mess up California more than she messed up paypal/ebay. She has no control in the end which she lacks heavily. Instead of finishing what she has started she ran off. Now many are effected with her mess.

]]> By: Chris Dawson http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24507 Chris Dawson Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:41:24 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24507 It may have escaped your attention but Meg Whitman left eBay over a year ago :grin: It may have escaped your attention but Meg Whitman left eBay over a year ago :grin:

]]> By: MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24506 MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:17:36 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24506 Hey I love the new Freeze. Buyers pay, I reply to them, tell them honestly the funds are on hold and I cannot ship the item. YOU DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT OPTION: Refund your customer the money and ask them if they can send a check for 10% less of the original sale of the item and discount your customer rather than paying ebay/paypal fees. Of course ebay will need to refund the insertion fees, etc since the transaction wasn't successful and the funds were not collected. So far it works for me. Right now I get more sales through craigslist by matching the auction title for the item with the craigslist title when posting. The customer will look up and most likely paste the title of the auction ad only to google your craigslist ad. Funniest thing is when they discover your username is the same but the price is 10% less through craigslist, guess where that sale will be directed from? Craigslist. Craigslist has done a perfect form of top search results so just match your auction ad title with your craigslist ad and I will guarantee your sale will be through craigslist and you can call your customer to arrange a payment method like "Google Checkout" "Bank Of America POS", and "Verisign" etc. So your next step is to setup google cart and re-direct the customers using eBay as a advertising front linked with images from your website etc. THINK PEOPLE!!!! Just let paypal crumble on their own but use ebays advertising strengths to grow your business. Ebay was a bad idea in the first place. A shame to see how valuable items such as comic books were once worth a shit load of money. Re-Create the market and sell your item for what its worth not based on ebays "market value". It's about your companies customer service not who's the cheapest here. You know!!!!! Hey I love the new Freeze. Buyers pay, I reply to them, tell them honestly the funds are on hold and I cannot ship the item. YOU DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT OPTION: Refund your customer the money and ask them if they can send a check for 10% less of the original sale of the item and discount your customer rather than paying ebay/paypal fees. Of course ebay will need to refund the insertion fees, etc since the transaction wasn’t successful and the funds were not collected. So far it works for me. Right now I get more sales through craigslist by matching the auction title for the item with the craigslist title when posting. The customer will look up and most likely paste the title of the auction ad only to google your craigslist ad. Funniest thing is when they discover your username is the same but the price is 10% less through craigslist, guess where that sale will be directed from? Craigslist. Craigslist has done a perfect form of top search results so just match your auction ad title with your craigslist ad and I will guarantee your sale will be through craigslist and you can call your customer to arrange a payment method like “Google Checkout” “Bank Of America POS”, and “Verisign” etc. So your next step is to setup google cart and re-direct the customers using eBay as a advertising front linked with images from your website etc. THINK PEOPLE!!!! Just let paypal crumble on their own but use ebays advertising strengths to grow your business. Ebay was a bad idea in the first place. A shame to see how valuable items such as comic books were once worth a shit load of money. Re-Create the market and sell your item for what its worth not based on ebays “market value”. It’s about your companies customer service not who’s the cheapest here. You know!!!!!

]]> By: MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24505 MEG WHITMAN I LOVE PAYPAL HOLD AND ACCOUNT FREEZE "it's in your favor" Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:10:17 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24505 Hey I love the new Freeze. Buyers pay, I reply to them, tell them honestly the funds are on hold and I cannot ship the item. YOU DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT OPTION: Refund your customer the money and ask them if they can send a check for 10% less of the original sale of the item and discount your customer rather than paying ebay/paypal fees. Of course ebay will need to refund the insertion fees, etc since the transaction wasn't successful and the funds were not collected. So far it works for me. Next step is to setup google cart and re-direct the customers using eBay as a advertising front linked with images from your website etc. THINK PEOPLE!!!! Just let paypal crumble on their own but use ebays advertising strengths to grow your business. Ebay was a bad idea in the first place. A shame to see how valuable items such as comic books were once worth a shit load of money. Re-Create the market and sell your item for what its worth not based on ebays "market value". It's about your companies customer service not who's the cheapest here. You know!!!!! Hey I love the new Freeze. Buyers pay, I reply to them, tell them honestly the funds are on hold and I cannot ship the item. YOU DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT OPTION: Refund your customer the money and ask them if they can send a check for 10% less of the original sale of the item and discount your customer rather than paying ebay/paypal fees. Of course ebay will need to refund the insertion fees, etc since the transaction wasn’t successful and the funds were not collected. So far it works for me. Next step is to setup google cart and re-direct the customers using eBay as a advertising front linked with images from your website etc. THINK PEOPLE!!!! Just let paypal crumble on their own but use ebays advertising strengths to grow your business. Ebay was a bad idea in the first place. A shame to see how valuable items such as comic books were once worth a shit load of money. Re-Create the market and sell your item for what its worth not based on ebays “market value”. It’s about your companies customer service not who’s the cheapest here. You know!!!!!

]]> By: Bryn http://tamebay.com/2009/12/paypal-reserves-holds-policy-changes-explained.html#comment-24504 Bryn Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:22:57 +0000 http://tamebay.com/?p=10378#comment-24504 I have got on to our account manager to see if there is a "manual overide".... Will let you know what he says As an exgtra irritation we use the Paypal csv files to import into our database for our daily sales and as an extra column has now been added to the sheet then it has scewed it all up.... All for £7.13 Bryn I have got on to our account manager to see if there is a “manual overide”…. Will let you know what he says

As an exgtra irritation we use the Paypal csv files to import into our database for our daily sales and as an extra column has now been added to the sheet then it has scewed it all up….

All for £7.13

Bryn

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