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…….