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Posted By: Anonymous

If you as a buyer ask and the seller accepts, you can pay be money order or check, I'll paste the Ebay Workshop link below and the quote from the ebay rep who made the comment. If you read the thread, you'll find that as a seller, you can't paste the following into your auction:

http://workshops.ebay.com/thread.jspa?threadID=130000703&ssPageName=CMDV:WC0719


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Buyers requesting check or money order a seller can accept check and money order payment from a buyer if (and only if) the buyer requests it. We will not take action against a seller who is trying to accommodate their buyer, complete a sale and be in compliance with the policy. A seller can also decide to refuse check or money order payment from a buyer.

When these changes go into effect in late October, a seller cannot in any way solicit check or money order payment from a buyer. This will be considered a
violation of the Accepted Payments Policy. Violations may result in:


* Listing cancellation
* Forfeit of eBay fees on cancelled listings
* Limits on account privileges
* Loss of PowerSeller status
* Account suspension

One
way we will detect violations is through buyer reports. We will also
monitor checkout completion rates for sellers, and this has generated a
lot of questions from sellers. Here are some clarifications:


* eBay
will not automatically take action against a seller with a low
completion rate. We realize that there are many valid reasons for low
completion rates.
* We will investigate sellers with low
checkout completion rates on a case by case basis. Specifically, we
will check to see if the seller is soliciting check or money order
payment from their buyers. If we don’t find any evidence of this
occurring, we won’t take action against the seller.

You can refuse to accept checks and money orders. If the buyer refuses to pay
using the payment methods specified in your listing, file an Unpaid
Item dispute (UPI). If the buyer fails to respond to eBay's requests
for more information through the UPI process, provides an inadequate
response such as nonsense words, or insists upon paying with an
unapproved payment method, any negative or neutral Feedback left by the
buyer will be removed.

If a buyer threatens negative Feedback to demand payment by a method not specified in your listing you should immediately report the buyer to eBay. If there is clear evidence of undue pressure, eBay will take action. If a buyer shows a pattern of malicious behavior, eBay will most likely suspend the buyer and any negative or neutral Feedback the buyer left for any sellers will be removed.