eBay pushes Paypal on you
Paypal
For all you newbies on ebay. You will need to be careful with eBay’s new Policy . They are now Forcing you to accept Paypal. The word has spread. Some are surprised while others and I have been already warning you to have your own merchant account for payment processing.
In the last month eBay has limited the accounts of sellers for not accepting Paypal. According to eBay; they want to create a safe trading environment. They also, stated on the email and their site; if you have a Merchant Account to accept credit card payments you can use it. LIES
I have a friend who did submit to eBay (as a test ) his Google Checkout information. Google now offers you a way to accept credit card payments. When this information was provided to eBay; they refused it. eBay sated “Google Checkout” is not a company with the financial history and cannot be accepted.
Okay, no problem. He then faxed over to them his Merchant Account information he holds with Chase Bank. Hmm… what did eBay do??? They took 15 days to approve it. They removed the limitations they imposed on his account. Only to suspend his account 48 hours later. =))
Pleassssssse…….. this was predictable. eBay of course, does not want sellers with so much control.
(I will explain how you have control with your Merchant Account vs Paypal)
So if you do not want to accept Paypal do not sell on eBay. They will shut you down.
Wait…. it gets better.
So now, you have eBay suspending his selling account.
What happens next is childish!!!
eBay, emailed all of the buyers he sold too and advised them to Charge Back their credit card immediately and to open disputes with Paypal for Fraud. ???
You gotta be kidding me.
He has sold about $25,000 worth of merchandise in one month. Luckily he had only 5 large orders to fill. However, this is where eBay allows and encourages those BAD BUYERS to surface.
With the seller having the proof of delivery; some buyers made claims of Non-receipt. Their back-up; eBay told us to file this claim. Duh! Right?
Come on, if you are an honest buyer. You would not file a claim for something already delivered and accepted for several weeks now. Needless to say, eBay created a Huge Headache for him. He was able to work with his buyers fill the last few orders and focus selling from his website.
eBay has come up with clever way to bully you into accepting Paypal and over paying on invoices. I have a great story on their huge over billing SCAM.
Get on board with eBay now, before the get rid of auctions. Just having an aboutMe page on their site is good enough to get you on search engines and FREE Traffic.
You can visit these sites for details on what is going on with eBay and Paypal:
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200801290615092.html – ebay Policy
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=97 – eBay Blog
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000605188 – Seller Blogged about ebay on eBay Blog 
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