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- Nov 27, 2008
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Man, over the years I've had stupid troubles with PayPal with stuff like transferring funds, etc and I've had 2 items that were never shipped to me that I still ended up paying for because it was easier to say screw $20-ish than have the account locked up, etc - THIS is the last freakin straw!
I sold a handheld Laser on Ebay 2 days ago, and I recieved confirmation of payment this morning with a total BS stipulation: Due to the item being listed in a "high-risk category" (IE: Lasers) the payment is being "Held" by PayPal and will not be posted to my account as available until A) The buyer contacts PayPal and confirms reciept, B) I provide proof of reciept in wjhich case the funds will be released within 2 business days of them confirming, or C) 21 business days pass without a dispute being filed by the buyer.
This is crap - is this happening to everyone? I have 2 Ebay accounts, my business account (which I rarely use except for stuff that technically belongs to the company) is at 100% feedback and 43 transactions, my personal account is at 100% and 225 transactions and yet they just arbitrarilt decide my transaction is "high risk"? According to the link they sent me, it is now their perrogative to hold funds for ANY auction payment for up to 21 business days if someones feedaback rating is less than 100 transactions or less than 95%, OR if the "star ratings" given during feedback (the little 5-star system TR communication, speed, etc) fall below 4.5 stars anytime in a 1 year period ... well hell, read it for yourself (here is the link to the public page, log into your account and search "hold" to get the full nasty details)
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=xpt/Marketing/securitycenter/sell/SaferPayments-outside
To tell the truth I don't even like this as a BUYER, because once it starts happening to perfectly good, 100% sellers (having to wait 3 weeks to get paid, etc) then less and less cool deals are going to be out there on Ebay, because it's too much of a hassle to get honest money for an honest sale.
Any opinions from other legitimate Ebay users on this mess?
I sold a handheld Laser on Ebay 2 days ago, and I recieved confirmation of payment this morning with a total BS stipulation: Due to the item being listed in a "high-risk category" (IE: Lasers) the payment is being "Held" by PayPal and will not be posted to my account as available until A) The buyer contacts PayPal and confirms reciept, B) I provide proof of reciept in wjhich case the funds will be released within 2 business days of them confirming, or C) 21 business days pass without a dispute being filed by the buyer.
This is crap - is this happening to everyone? I have 2 Ebay accounts, my business account (which I rarely use except for stuff that technically belongs to the company) is at 100% feedback and 43 transactions, my personal account is at 100% and 225 transactions and yet they just arbitrarilt decide my transaction is "high risk"? According to the link they sent me, it is now their perrogative to hold funds for ANY auction payment for up to 21 business days if someones feedaback rating is less than 100 transactions or less than 95%, OR if the "star ratings" given during feedback (the little 5-star system TR communication, speed, etc) fall below 4.5 stars anytime in a 1 year period ... well hell, read it for yourself (here is the link to the public page, log into your account and search "hold" to get the full nasty details)
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=xpt/Marketing/securitycenter/sell/SaferPayments-outside
To tell the truth I don't even like this as a BUYER, because once it starts happening to perfectly good, 100% sellers (having to wait 3 weeks to get paid, etc) then less and less cool deals are going to be out there on Ebay, because it's too much of a hassle to get honest money for an honest sale.
Any opinions from other legitimate Ebay users on this mess?