atari2600land's Blog

it's very rare I use eBay anymore. selling fees are nuts. bring the fees down and stop allowing counterfeit BS and I'll come back

Nothing really crazy about it. First thing that it says is, "If the seller accepts, we’ll use your selected payment method to process your order. We won’t share these details with the seller." The, it goes on to say, "By selecting Make Offer, you authorize eBay to charge your payment method for the order total if the seller accepts your offer. You also agree to eBay’s User Agreement and Privacy Notice," and, "You will only be charged if this offer is accepted." All on the payment selection page.

From a seller's standpoint, this is a very important system. I had an average of 8 unpaid transactions per month. While the fees are assessed upon payment, a $0.30 transaction fee was charged each time. Cost me almost $30/year because people wouldn't follow through. Others would buy it, then message me and say that they get paid in 8 days and they'll pay me then, like I'm running a layaway service, and around half the time they wouldn't anyway.

 

Just wait to buy it until you're ready to pay for it and there won't be any issues in the future.

That's greedy of ebay to charge a fee even if the person never pays for it. As to what is crazy about atari2600land's experience is that ebay wasn't using his PayPal acct to pay for the offer, but wanted a bank acct instead. This payment method requirement for making offers started on ebay at least a year ago, but I don't recall having a problem with it using my PayPal acct to do so.

Edited January 14 by pedalpowered

@pedalpowered ebay uses whatever payment method you select at the time that you authorize immediate payment, when you make an offer. You are required to select payment method, authorize it, and confirm authorization each time. OP just wasn't paying enough attention to what he was clicking the first time, but that happens to all of us from time to time.