Ebay - theiving robbing batards

[elanfan]

Have you seen their latest ploy - now they allow private listings free but the sting in the tail is now they want a final value fee of 10%. They also won't let you charge your customer if the customer decides to pay you via Paypal rather than a free bank transfer and that nets them approx another 4% and you can't opt out of it.

Any legal types on here fancy reporting them to the Competition Commission as in effect they don't have any and are abusing their position.

[maser_spyder]

Look for somewhere else to sell.


They have already trialled this in France, and possibly other countries too.


Word of warning, don't accept paypal for anybody collecting anything, there's no chargeback support.

To explain further, if you sell something and the buyer pays with paypal, you should have a courier tracking number or RM tracking for sending the item to them, you are covered under the seller protection (although this is questionable....).

You cannot 'prove' a buyer collected an item in person.

It's a common scam that's been going on for a while now, buyer pays with paypal, collects item, goes home, puts a paypal claim in for non-receipt, paypal takes funds away from seller and refunds buyer.