eBay has hit me with a restriction (1 Viewer)

[Gideon]

I posted this morning a beautiful and excellent example of gentleman's steamer trunk from the early 1900's - you might want to have a look at it...

I listed it as a buy it now at $1250. When I completed the listing and sent it live, I got a page telling me that if the item is sold, they will with hold portions of the payment until shipping information has been entered where they will accommodate the shipping cost and the balance will be released three days after the buyer leaves positive feedback or 21 days if the buyer hasn't reported anything and its assumed that the item has been received.

Uh... no. Not going to work that way. I'm going see what happens with the item. If it sells, well, we'll see what eBay will do when I tell them I won't ship until the payment is with me in full.

I know that I risk sanctions, a negative comment, etc but enough is enough. My feedback is excellent period and I stand on that.

Additionally, when they began sending those threatening emails to me, I called in and was told that they were sending those to everybody and that I had no selling limitations on my account and that I could freely list whatever I wanted.

Stay tuned.

 

[Gideon]

Oh, the best part - the reason:

They tell me that the funds hold was due to listing a higher priced item in a category I don't normally post in.

So, I guess it's ok to sell toy soldiers and other things relating to "toy". But if I list something else, eBay gets scared. What idiots. This won't do anything but really pi$$ off a lot of sellers.

Wonder which MBA genius thought this one up.

 

[Napoleon1er]

EBAY{sm0}{sm0}{sm0}:rolleyes2:
What will they do next time....
-Sandor

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Think about withdrawing the listing and ask for your fees back so they know how you feel.

Terry

 

[VIRIATO]

Maybe it's time for E-bay to have some serious competition...


Paulo

 

[Gideon]

they've crushed it all and to create a new and more buyer and seller friendly site would need considerable start up cost.

Remember, it was tried here but there was no real plan to attract the many thousands of buyers and sellers necessary to create a marketplace. That's where the real cost comes into play. It would take a few million to create the platform and market properly.

If anybody is seriously considering it, boy would I love to be part of that.

 

[Gideon]

apparently ebay hit a lot of people with this stupidity and their phones are jammed. i was just thanked for being one of the more polite sellers this morning.

seems there's a bit of a backlash today.

 

[Gideon]

Until this insanity has passed, I will direct bill all buyers from paypal via their payment request center instead of going through the ebay bill system.

For those of you who buy from me on eBay, you will receive the same protections from paypal as you would from eBay.

 

[gk5717]

My new complaint about Ebay. As they now charge a fee on your shipping cost, I,m now being billed for items I shipped a month ago. Impossible to keep track unless I want to spend hours and hours over records to see if a 35 cent charge is accurate.
What a pain!
Gary

 

[Gideon]

just assume 9% on the shipping price across the board for auctions. 12% for buy it now listings.

I spent some time discussing this situation with an american based service representative.

Apparently, they issue these sanctions to a handful of sellers at any given time but not enough sellers at any one time as to cause a significant drop in sales or the real threat business dropping.

My best guess is that this is applied mainly to people who sell auction style listings. They seem to want to be amazon.com and, if really look around, you'll see far more buy it nows than auction style listings.

Now I have to see if I can skirt this hold on my money by directly billing the buyer via paypal and cancelling the transaction on eBay.

They really have done a good job creating a monopoly.