New Ebay Changes!

[kjjavic]

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meant to say: automatically side with the buyer, not seller.

[cohibasmoker]

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No, Ebay cannot do whatever it wants. Ebay does not own the items that are sold on their website. If a buyer wants to pay with a money order, they can do that and Ebay cant do anything about that. From what I understand, is that Ebay will remove the option for money orders/checks on their website and sellers cannot promote those kinds of payments in their auctions.

From a sellers point of view, these changes stick, and are going to be the demise of what Ebay once was.

As for shill bidding, if they go to automatic payments and your "friend" wins your auction, couldn't you just pay your "friend" the money back?

- eBay CAN DO whatever they want!!! Suppose they do something you don't like, where are you going to go? Is there another eBay site out there?

- As for paying your buddy back, how many times will it take before your buddy gets tired of it and says, enough is enough.

- Another thread said that a eBay sale is a legal/binding contract. If that is true, why can't eBay automatically deduct the payment from your PayPal account or credit card on file? Afterall, it's a legal contract.

As a buyer, if I win an item on eBay, I would not have any problem with them automatically deducting the amount from my PayPal account. It would save me time.

As a seller, it may eliminate the stiffs that don't pay and believe me, there are plenty of them out there.

Jim

[kudu]

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- eBay CAN DO whatever they want!!! Suppose they do something you don't like, where are you going to go? Is there another eBay site out there?

Sure there are lots of other auction sites out there, they just dont have the exposure that Ebay does. Yes, Ebay can make changes to their rules, BUT they cannot do WHATEVER they want. Their are US laws that they have to abide by. Like I said before, Ebay DOES NOT own the items on their website, therefore if a buyer wants to pay with a money order, they can pay with a money order, even with the new changes.

- As for paying your buddy back, how many times will it take before your buddy gets tired of it and says, enough is enough.

Find another buddy. And not that I am condoning this behavior, BTW, because shill bidding is very wrong.

- Another thread said that a eBay sale is a legal/binding contract. If that is true, why can't eBay automatically deduct the payment from your PayPal account or credit card on file? Afterall, it's a legal contract.

Because the buyer and seller still have decisions to make after the auction, like if the buyer was from another country, how is ebay going to know how much shipping is going to cost, so that they can automatically charge the buyers Paypal or credit card? What if someone hacked into your ebay account and had a field day buying all kinds of stuff. Would you want automatic payment then??

[allstarsplus]

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- Another thread said that a eBay sale is a legal/binding contract. If that is true, why can't eBay automatically deduct the payment from your PayPal account or credit card on file? Afterall, it's a legal contract.

As a buyer, if I win an item on eBay, I would not have any problem with them automatically deducting the amount from my PayPal account. It would save me time.

As a seller, it may eliminate the stiffs that don't pay and believe me, there are plenty of them out there.

Jim

Jim - You are basically suggesting what MLB.com Auctions does and many other sites as once you win/purchase they charge your credit card!

I like that idea although Kudu brings up the one issue which is the varying shipping cost which could be charged after the fact when it is reconciled unless shipping is a flat fee.

This would solve many of the issues which deters many sellers due to deadbeat buyers.

[NegleyPirate]

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Ebay + Walmart + Microsoft = Everyone's Money(lol)!

[bigtime59]

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Sometimes I'm so slow on the uptake that I just stun myself!
I've been wondering why eBay has become so relentlessly obsessed with low shipping fees. Tonight, as I was re-listing some items (and being told over and over again that my shipping cost was too high compared to other items in category...well, duh! I'm listing jerseys, and most of the listings in this category are cards!) it hit me like a flying mallet: eBay is obsessed with low shipping costs because that's the one area where they can only skim you once! (And then only if you get paid through PayPal.) If they can shift a buck here and a couple of bucks there from "shipping costs" into "item costs"...they get three skims (listing, selling and PayPal fees) instead of one, and with the number of transactions that occur on eBay each day...soon you're dealing with real money...lots and lots of real money!