Since the changes went in eBay has become a paradise for buy side scammers ,, eBay has forgotten that it is the sellers that have always paid their bills. There is a huge opportunity for a parallel payment system to replace PayPal .. eBay and PayPal together are deadly in allowing and encouraging fraud against sellers.
It’s pretty much the “big boy” though. Where else would you go? Amazon has a market place and I’ve gotten some great deals on used books from quite a few vendors but as an “average” web user, ebay’s the one everyone hears about and knows.
Cindie
“Since the changes went in eBay has become a paradise for buy side scammers ,, eBay has forgotten that it is the sellers that have always paid their bills. There is a huge opportunity for a parallel payment system to replace PayPal .. eBay and PayPal together are deadly in allowing and encouraging fraud against sellers.”
That’s the same logic that says you can tax corporate income. The people that make that site run are the BUYERS. Sure, the sellers are Ebay’s direct clients. But if buyers don’t think they are getting a fair shake on the site, guess what? Sellers won’t make money and Ebay won’t make money. Pretty simple.
As to encouraging fraud against sellers—what about collusive sales that are fraud on buyers? What about the inherent ability of sellers to torpedo buyers that existed under the previous regime? I don’t fault sellers for wanting their rates to remain flat, or have the last say about buyers, but geez, think as a buyer for once and ask yourself if, as a customer, you’d rather know that you’ll get the burger you pay for or whether the seller thinks the darn bitchy burger buyer is smelly?
I know I don’t care about prior buyers—I just want to get what I paid for, be it burger, cd, or whatever.
I don’t know if it’s been corrected, but as recently as 2006, PayPal could be “reverse engineered” to “ping” a checking account with a very small draft, verify funds and then wipe it out. Happened to a business partner of mine to the tune of $10k.
You can say that again. You can’t even use ebay these days without paypal. I despise PayPal and their fees and their rules and regulations...they are worse than the worst bank you could do business with.
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