Be Very, Very Careful With eBay's Offers

[Exhibitman]

Damn, I missed that kink in the offer and the (alleged) human I spoke with never mentioned it either. What I quoted is the fee explanation that eBay posted on my fee breakdown page, which makes no mention of the penalty on store subscribers. What a weird way to reward loyalty...

Jeff, I had chats with three alleged humans and spoke with what I assume was a human on the phone.

There's a lot more to the story than just the discount confusion, though. They froze my payout for the card before it cleared authentication (which I get), opened it for a nanosecond, then refroze all of my payouts (Interestingly, not the account itself, so I can still sell more things that they won't pay me for until whenever they feel like it) as soon as the card cleared authentication. They have not been able to give me any explanation as to why, specifically, what I did wrong to get my funds are frozen, other than selling a card under their promotion, or even an accurate time frame as to when the payout hold will be lifted. They have told me inconsistent stories, and vomited vague policy statements at me repeatedly until I give up trying to get an answer. I am publishing the full transcript of my comms with their customer (dis)service reps on the subject. Kafkaesque is the best way to describe it.

With REA opening a selling platform at 5%, and presumably none of the rando stuff I've been dealing with, I don't think I will be listing more expensive cards on eBay any time soon.