[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Update to the way sellers below eBay's minimum performance standards are paid through PayPal Starting May 31, sellers who fall below eBay's minimum performance standards may have their buyer payments show as pending in their PayPal account for a period of time to help ensure successful fulfillment. Your account was below the minimum standard as of this writing. If you're subject to this update, you'll be notified when you list and you'll receive an email notification from PayPal when your funds are pending. You'll also find information in My eBay showing the estimated date funds will be available and steps you can take to help get your funds faster. ---------- Ever get a negative feedback? Even one bad rating will bring you below their "standards" for selling on ebay. They will be holding payment until tracking is entered and in some cases delivery confirmed. I am sure this will be disastrous for our overseas people as now everything will have to go by ems. [/FONT]
On it's face this change doesn't initially leave me wondering why my ass hurts, on the other hand it has yet to go into effect and if they don't allow access to the funds to ship and/or make the delivery confirmation options for sellers cost prohibitive to comply with this change it will be yet another of ebay/paypal's boners, there only to prod at us more. On another note I've tried to stop buying on eBay and use amazon more.. still haven't checked out there options n requirements for sellers.
I'll wait for confirmation that "Ever get a negative feedback? Even one bad rating will bring you below their "standards" for selling on ebay" is actually true before getting concerned.
I'm well above their minimum standards. As someone who isn't eating lead paint and drinking mercury martinis I know better than to bid on auctions by people with bad ratings. Forcing people who suck to confirm delivery is probably a good thing, though dirt cheap shipping doesn't usually come with delivery confirmation or even tracking.
eBay is a cancer anyway, I always dread selling there since I have to factor in the ebay fee + paypal fee that they shave off the top of my earnings
Add in one rating with one star each category. You realize I could find your account , bid on something and then demand 50% refund or I will crater your rating? Feedback ransom is happening as we speak for big sellers on ebay.
2 months ago I was one email away from calling a buyers local police, luckily they realized it was their fault and then became more reasonable. Situation was they bought a repair part compatible with only certain models of the intended device. I clearly stated which ones it would 100% work with and which ones the buyer would have to check inside there hardware (and how to do this) first to confirm compatibility. Well they didn't and demanded a full refund including shipping or I'm to receive negative feedback. (they used much harsher words to get this point across and our argument escalated over the course of a few emails where the buyer lied about what my listing said and made his threats) Sad thing about this guy was I was initially very polite and offered him a refund of the purchase price if he would just ship it back, (my auction clearly stated no refunds) and if it was not tampered with. In the end he realized he was an ass, apologized, and did end up getting his purchase price back less shipping after returning it... no ebay case was needed to resolve things But yea... feedback hostage IS HAPPENING and ebay's "resolution center" is all too often abused at the expense of many good sellers and good buyers alike.
Ebay feedback is so useless. At least on forums, buyers and sellers have something to loose. You might be able to rip someone or be a very unreasonable person once, but you won't get around the second or third time.
I recently had ebay payments on hold which i wasn't aware of until i decided to sell something. Anyway the day or so after i got payment for the sold item i received an email saying my payments were no longer going to be on hold but the money that was already on hold would stay like that until the 21days had passed or i had got feedback which sucked as i got a buyer who didn't leave feedback.
I'm positive that less than one in 5 of my sales will result in a feedback... buyers forget once they get their stuff most of the time. Sellers, in my experience, give feedback 9 outta 10 times or more although I've sold more times than bought and I don't give my buyers feedback until they do as sellers CAN'T even give neg feedback anymore :/
In the brazilian "paypal-like-thing", it was always like that. The sent money is on hold until the buyer confirmation. I've never seen problems with it. I really don't understand why in USA there's a charge for the "tracking". I mean, it's understandable that a huge seller don't want to type every tracking number for the thousands of sales. But, for the post office, they even use the 13 digit worldwide number in their inner logistics. I believe that Play Asia use it in their system too.
Here in canada. Sending a package by letter or small package does not include any tracking number. The only service that offers any form of tracking on an international package starts at $17, compared to services with out tracking $3 (letter) / $8 (small parcel). $17 is being generous because to the UK/Europe it becomes $30 by boat/surface with tracking (even if a small package) or $40 for air with tracking. :dammit:
