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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Howie
Some of my regular customers who have been paying me by check or money order over the past few years have told me that they refuse to use Paypal. Therefore, they will no longer bid on eBay. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Anonymous
Are you s troll? Or what kind of business person are you? Tell them that checks are fine! Geez. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: John S
That's awful to hear Howie. Not that they will change their policy; but have you tried to contact Ebay with this information? Thanks for helping me with my collection over the last several years. I will still be bidding on your items. Best, |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: John S
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: JB
What can Ebay do about it? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jdrum
can't they continue to send you money orders or checks. If they are regular customers they have your address and you theirs. Is ebay going to police each sale to make sure it was paid for by paypal? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: D. Bergin
If a customer requests to pay via a check or money order you are allowed to accept them. You just can't advertise it. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jason Carota
Every eBay transaction would require a corresponding PayPal or ProPay transaction, I assume. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Donavon Arabie
They are going to lose many customers over this. Unless it's a car or a house, ebay is now saying you HAVE to pay with Paypal. Isn't that a conflict of interest, considering that Paypal is pretty much an ebay owned company? I guess they're figuring to maximize their profit....listing fees + the 3% charge to accept Paypal funds via credit card. It's truly tasteless & they deserve to lose customers. As someone who has had their bank account hacked via Paypal, I refuse to use it. So...my buying/selling on ebay is pretty much done. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Frank L.
I have noticed that some sellers are still writing that they accept check/money order in the description. I would WRITE it in until ebay says something to you. When I am going to buy, I simply email the seller and ask if they accept check or money order. I have won from you many times, so I know you do, but others wont. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jay wolt
I believe new eBay selling accounts can only accept Paypal |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Frank L.
To gandhi1007 |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Stephen Mitchell
The Paypal only policy is not helpful - especially at a time of contracting discretionary dollars. We were contacted a couple of weeks ago by an eBay rep. regarding an eBay survey. I do not recall whether the Paypal-only policy was addressed but I did firmly emphasize that I was not in favor of eBay's form of "change" particularly in uncertain times like these. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jason Carota
"I would WRITE it in until ebay says something to you" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: D. Bergin
"I would WRITE it in until ebay says something to you" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jim VB
This discussion had a thread last week. Ebay's new policy requires a seller to accept at least one form of electronic payment (Paypal, credit or debit card, or Propay). |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jason
Exactly one of the many reasons that I refuse to get back on eBay as a seller. I am currently working on my own site and am glad to see others frustrated in the new stupid policies. This is just the beginning of a very huge loss of business for ebay and I am loving it! I hope they go down like a rock. They should never had messed with the original business model which made them so successful. I will continue to "use" them only to buy items I want, but not to sell. They may not even be able to recover now even if they changed back to their original model. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Anonymous
Edited. I was cranky last night. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: howard
If you want to get around Ebay's word filter try mispelling "check" as "chek". |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
...simply write that you happily accept Chex! It's a tastier, healthier alternative to low-fiber PayPal payments! |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Robert Klevens
Just write something like...If you have any questions in regards to payment, please feel free to contact me. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: jay wolt
No way can eBay filter the word "check" or "checks" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Chris Counts
I will continue to buy on eBay because it's still the best place for good deals ... but I won't sell on it anymore, and I'm just waiting for someone to come up with a better system. The folks who own eBay have gotten too greedy and out of touch, and they will only have themselves to blame when their website becomes irrelevant ... by the way, I don't do PayPal because when I tried to sign up, it didn't work, and when I tried to call customer service, I discovered that no number exists that I can call. Now that's lousy customer service ... |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: David Smith
I wish a smart business person would just buy eBay and split it into two companies. One for the sellers who want to maintai a "store" and another for people who just want to do auctions. Then maybe they would also go back and look at the rules and change soem of them back to the way they used to be. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: barrysloate
I sell on ebay every week, and get at least a couple of checks or money orders each time. I'm fine with it, the customers are fine with it, and ebay has never said anything. How can they stop a seller from accepting a check if he agrees to it? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rick McQuillan
Last week I had a customer win one of my auctions. He emailed me to ask if I would accept a Postal money order. I said "fine", and it wasn't a problem. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Steve
The way I understood it was that after Jan 20 only paypal or other |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Bob Lamb
I believe that the customer picking up the item in person is still an option. Just say that all the transactions that were picked up were paid with check, money order, cash, ect. Even if the buyer was in Califorina and the seller in New York, I know they cannot police this to that extent.What are they going to ask to see plane tickets and gas reciepts to verify that an item was picked up. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I realize that this is an exaggeration, but... |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: martindl
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: keyway
I advertise it in the writing of my description. Checks, paypal or money orders. haven't heard anything from ebay about it yet. Frank |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Paul
My listings specifically say that I will accept paypal only because ebay insists, and that I'd prefer a check or money order to avoid paypal's fees. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Howie
Thanks for all your suggestions. To play it safe, I'll leave out any references to money order and checks from my listings but will still honor those type of payments. I do like the idea of using Chex instead of check. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I notice that a couple of folks have suggested that, in order to avoid having your listings pulled, to ambiguously hint that you will take other forms of payment. My advice would be to create a proper verbiage that can both CLEARLY convey your message to potential bidders, while at the same time duck around eBay's filters and censors. As collectors and dealers, we have all run into our share of buyers who simply don't understand ambiguity. That is why such things must be spelled out in plain English. Perhaps somebody can come up with a few appropriate suggestions. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: D. Bergin
Jodi, |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: S Gross
I still use "check or money order accepted" line in selling. If ebay tells me not to (although agree with Jay, no way they call filter it), I will go to "contact for other payment methods." |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Anonymous
when a seller says "Paypal Only".....the message is clear....when a seller doesn't say that, i'll always ask if they take u.s. postal money-orders....so far, at least 8 out of 10 take money-orders...and sometimes (if you have x-cellent feedback)...they'll take a money-order despite listing "paypal only" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jason Carota
To clear up any confusion from my original post about the filter, I should mention that the use of said filter was not my conclusion. A live eBay Help Tech told me about their existence. As Jay mentioned, the first thing that came to my mind was "what about signed checks?" |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: judson hamlin
I've been equally as successful with sending an email (how to pay for the item) and asking the seller about money orders. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Lee Behrens
I started a thread about this seller with his questionable reaction to a poor transaction and I got hammer by many. Now he comes on the board asking a question that he should be well aware of the answer if indeed he is really concerned about his business. Just more evidence as to why his business practices were put into question by me. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Rawn Hill
A few great buys from BUYTHATCARD, let the horse die a dignified death. Just the thoughts from a poorboy. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Howie
What in the world is your problem, Lee Behrens? |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Lee Behrens
Howie, |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: leon
I think you said a mouthful when you said "informed people with make there (sic) own minds up"...... |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: boxingcardman
Evading filters and creating ambiguities; we lawyers were created for that... |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Darn tootin', Adam! "If you think PayPal sucks too..."!!! |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: JimCrandell
I have noticed recently that there was no mailing address given for a few transactions I have done. I attributed it to my lack of technical skills on the computer and write the seller each time asking for their address. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Jeff Prizner
Not everyone takes a check, I just bought a big dollar item and offered to pay by check and then split the paypal fee savings, the seller responded that he could only take paypal due to ebay's rules. |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: D. Bergin
"Not everyone takes a check, I just bought a big dollar item and offered to pay by check and then split the paypal fee savings, the seller responded that he could only take paypal due to ebay's rules." |
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Losing Customers Due to eBays new payment policies
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I've just started using the line "Paypal preferred" in my auctions which is ambiguous enough that while I prefer paypal (and I do) that I will accept other forms of payment (which I do)...I have noticed though that ebay must not be giving my address anymore because buyers are emailing me for my address now. |
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