Ebay doesn't allow sellers to accept cash payments

[hubleyman]

Sorry guys…… I don’t normally like to complain in writing but this one really pisses me off! Ebay just cancelled all my auctions because I accept CASH as a form of payment.

That’s friggin’ UN-American!

They tell me it’s against Ebay’s payment policy to state that you accept cash. I reviewed their policies and can see where you are not allowed to solicit buyers to mail cash, which makes sense, but that’s not what I stated in my listings. My payment options usually read something like: I accept cash, money orders, cashiers checks, PayPal, etc.…….. And I don’t want to state something like I accept COD, because I do not ship something that hasn’t been paid for yet.

Many of my buyers are local and prefer to pay me cash when they come pick up their items. They get to inspect the item, and if it’s what it was supposed to be they pay for it. I’ve done this since 1998 and it’s worked fine so far.

Not only that, but all my auctions are completely gone from my account, so I can’t even re-list them with the corrections they tell me I have to do! There’s a whole friggin’ day of my time originally spent listing the items completely wasted. Not to mention the listing fees I paid (which are not refunded).

So how come they couldn’t just tell me to revise the listing or it might be cancelled (still had a week to go, plenty of time)? A simple heads-up would have been sufficient to deal with the problem.

They were kind enough to contact all my bidders to tell them my auctions were cancelled. I wonder if they bothered to tell them why they were cancelled??????

OK, enough of my bitchin’…… Just thought I should warn you other Ebay sellers that evidently you can’t take cash anymore…….

[SuperNovaSS]

Ebay did something similar to me before. I had 50 or so auctions and lost all my descriptions, etc. I wrote to them and explained the situation. They refunded all my listing fees and reinstated my auctions in the ended category of my ebay so I could relist them at the touch of a button. I'm not sure if they will do the same for you but it is definitely worth a try. Even if they do reinstate your auctions, look forward to some short sales. The auctions they reinstated did not sell for much even know there were some very nice items. I think this is because many potential buyers thought there was something fishy going on due to the sudden ending then relist. The bummer is I did nothing wrong and lost time and money due to a mistake that was not mine.


I hope it works out for you,


Jason

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Thanks Charles for the heads up. One more reason to stay clear of peebait. They are just not happy if they aren't squeezing every last nickel from both sides of the table.

[427TJ]

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They are just not happy if they aren't squeezing every last nickel from both sides of the table.

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That's what's known as standard business practice.

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They are just not happy if they aren't squeezing every last nickel from both sides of the table.

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Just like the BJ auctions !!

[427TJ]

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They are just not happy if they aren't squeezing every last nickel from both sides of the table.

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Just like the BJ auctions !!

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Yes! You just passed Business 101 Chris! Business 102 will explain why the phrase "Business Ethics" is an oxymoron.

[427king]

The best part of ebay is where they change thier paypal page every month to try and deceive people paying with paypal to use thier bank accounts instead of a CC...the answers THEY want you to select are always the highligted ones,and they try and make you hit the PAY button before you can change the method to a CC payment. Of course its written in thier bylaws that once you make a payment there is no recourse to change it. Deception at its best. Even knowing all this, i tried to make a payment the other day and it came out of my bank accouint when i didnt want it to..

[njsteve]

Paypal's latest scam: I just received $400 that a seller refunded from those incorrectly sized cragars I bought a month ago. I originally paid via my credit card through Paypal. Instead of refunding my credit card, Paypal made it a new Paypal balance of $400. It takes about 10 minutes of searching their website to figure out how to get your money physically back in your pocket. You have to have Paypal issue you a check...at a cost of $1.50 service charge, of course.

[SuperNovaSS]

You can also transfer it to your bank account for free or take it out of an ATM is you have a PayPal debit card.



Jason

[njsteve]

But that's part of their "system." If you have a bank account, they use that as the primary funding mechanism for purchases, not your credit card. There is no way to make the credit card the permananet default funding location for purchases. That is where all the hoops and hurdles pop up when you try to change the funding location back to your credit card when you are trying to make a purchase.

It's "The Man" just trying to keep you down.