EBAY Payment Change:

[bmattioli]

I highly doubt eBay will ever make it difficult for the buyer to pay for a purchase. They ain't that dumb..

[D. Bergin]

As somebody mentioned already, this is in Beta right now. Apparently the seller mentioned in the first post agreed to be part of the beta program. Then Ebay decided to hamstring to sellers who agreed to be in their program and actually try and help them out, and told them they can't ever opt out once they are in, and they can no longer accept Paypal.

Really one of the silliest things I've ever seen Ebay do.

It's really amazing how many times they've shot themselves in the foot, simply so they can limit interaction between buyer and seller, and save themselves a few pennies in off site deals.

They've cost themselves big money AND customers hand over foot, literally chasing pennies and trying to bring down the hammer on all their sellers in the process.

Total greed move, spinning off Paypal to raise funds, and then deciding to sabotage it, and start all over again from scratch.

It's all very slimy.

[samosa4u]

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/169...ents-agreement

Here is an article from January that might interest you guys.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/169...ents-agreement

Here is an article from January that might interest you guys.

..thanks for that link ; excellent journalism/reporting ; I signed up just to stay in the loop..

..

[rdwyer]

No more paypal statements? I'm for that. Hopefully eBay won't report the sales. (?)

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by rdwyer

No more paypal statements? I'm for that. Hopefully eBay won't report the sales. (?)

ebay is going to send annual statements reporting sales. They will be required to once they take over control of making payments to sellers.

And I agree with the other person who said this is a slimy move by ebay. They have framed it in such a way to show how great this will be for sellers but it looks like a nightmare and all for the purpose of attempting to keep all sales within the site...for the safety of the buyers, of course.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

looks like Paypal will still be a checkout option