EBAY NO LONGER REFUNDS FEES on refunds. Forum member sends me money unasked for

Sorry to hear that man, What an ass that person was. do you know who it is exactly? They should get banned...

 

Banhammer!

 

Does the other side own paypal account outside USA?

 

I found this so hard to follow!

How did you accept a payment for an EBay item if it is for something you don't actually have for sale?

 

ebay run paypal. he is talking about the company.

 

I've seen this said by assembler a few times. Yet all the PayPal support pages I can find all say you will get fees refunded if the refund is within 60 days.

Anyone got a link to a paypal page saying this?

 

Trying to get my head around this, so some tit has paid money to assembler in advance without being asked in an effort to secure an item from him - which is a payment not a donation. So now if he has to do a refund because he can't find/doesn't have the item, the site will basically hit a load of red markers (withdrawal limits) and incur a shit load of charges because of this overly keen person and the fact ebay doesn't refund transaction fees? Is that about the size of it?

 

https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/bizui/SendRefund-outside

It’s flexible
You can send a full or partial refund.
It’s affordable
Your original transaction fee is credited to you. When issuing partial refunds, a portion of the fee is credited.
It's easy.

• Log into your PayPal account
• Click the History subtab.
• Find the purchase payment you would like to refund and click Details.
• Click the Issue Refund link.
• Enter the refund amount and click Submit.
• Confirm the amount and click Submit

 

Sorry if that's a stupid question, but can't you simply refuse a paypal payment?

 

Same as the above poster: Can you just press "Refuse payment" or something to send it back to the person? Like, if he sent the money to the wrong address? Or is that not possible?

 

Well that sucks...

 

Yeah, that was me.

I already apologized and told you I would cover the penalty.

 

I very much doubt the other party did this deliberately to cost you money or piss you off, i would imagine its an honest mistake

Edit: Ah! - as above!

 

Oh for f....I'm speechless...

So even if they agreed to compensate you for the fees at this point, it wouldn't matter because you can't move anything now till next month?

EDIT: just read Prometheus' comment, jesus what a f*king mess you caused...at least you're offering to clean up.

 

Just because a company is owned by another company it does not make them the same company.
If you were referring to PayPal then say so, don't say EBay and assume people will automatically read between the non-existent lines.

If it was insisting on taking funds from the account rather than the PayPal why did you bother issuing a refund? It would have made more sense to wait until you had sufficient funds or tell the buyer to cancel the payment from their end.

 

Your quote says the fee is credited back to you. Assembler says this isn't the case. I can only find exactly what you found - full return has fees returned.

Not only that, but a refund doesn't count towards your withdrawal limit anyway.

Also, I dont understand that issue anyway - if there is money in the PayPal account that needs withdrawing to pay hosting, then you wouldn't have gone overdrawn as the money is in paypal?

Somehow you have no money in paypal, so its gone from bank (which shouldn't happen, as per link from hexagon and all I can find - fees are refunded). But then have gone over your withdrawal limit (which a refund doesn't count toward) to withdraw money in the PayPal account that can't be in there, as you wouldnt have gone overdrawn if it was??

Makes no sense to me.

Only way it works is:

Guy paid money
You spent or withdraw some of the money
Tried to refund when not enough money was in the account (even when fees were credited back).


I see no other way the situation can work.

 

This was my first thought also