Marian,
I don't know what part of the world that you're in but I RARELY see any
problems on E-bay here in the US. I use both Mozilla and Palemoon.
I don't think that E-bay (US) has given out the buyer's information to
the sellers, or vice versa, in MANY years. They did very early on but I
think that stopped when they started using PayPal since they didn't want
the buyers and sellers to be able to contact each other and make deals
outside of Ebay/PP. I know that years ago I tried to send a buyer or a
seller, I don't recall which, my phone number through E-bay's message
system and E-bay would consistantly reject my message. I finally got around
it by putting the phone number into a JPG image and was able to send that
but I think that E-bay later figured that one out and even found a way to
block that. Many years ago when I was selling a lot of E-bay and I usually
shipped via FedEx and FedEx always wanted the receiver's phone number in
case there was a delivery problem. At the time, I could contact the buyer
through E-bay's message system and have send me their phone number the same
way. But as I said, that was a LONG time ago! Ebay is vastly different
now than when I first started using it and people would send each other
personal checks and even cash through the mail to pay for their purchases.
Someone in Germany once folded up some American dollar bills and put them
inside of a 3 1/2" floppy disk shell and mailed it to me. He didn't warn me
and I didn't know what it was for and almost threw it away when I received
it! Heck, my original buyer/seller name on E-bay WAS my complete E-mail
address! Times change!
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:52 PM Marian B <public@...> wrote:
As I understand it, eBay will no longer provide your account information to
the buyer at all. Instead the buyer pays eBay, which acts as an escrow, and
will eventually pay you (or not). The number of payment options would
therefore be independent of the seller's choices.
Personally what irks me more about eBay is that the site is constantly
broken, has years old bugs like items not being added to the watchlist at
times, bids not registering, login loops, aggressive 2FA verification over
and over again, doesn't properly work with Firefox, and has a rather
obscene 11 % tax on top. 10 % would be acceptable, if their site was
top-notch - but it's not, it's half-working garbage at the best of times.
Cheers, Marian
Am Di., 27. Apr. 2021 um 20:32 Uhr schrieb Daniel Koller via groups.io
<kaboomdk@...>:
Hi folks, this is OFF TOPIC because it's about e-bay, but on the other
hand, with the exception of my older gear, it's just about the only way I
get *any* Tek or HP gear these days. So, with apologies if it drags on
too
long and in the wrong direction,....
I got a message from e-bay that explains they are changing their payment
structure. According to that, sellers will need to directly link a bank
account to e-bay so that they can receive payments directly from buyers.
By May 21, if you do not link a bank account to e-bay, they will not
allow
new postings! So, the implication is that Paypal is no longer going to
work.
I don't know about folks here, but I suspect, like me, they are a bit
older, financially conservative, and are loathe to link a personal bank
account to e-bay. To this day I do not have my paypal account "linked"
to my bank account. I can have all my on-line accounts hacked, but none
of them have any access to my bank account.
One thing I thought to do is open a small credit union account with
low/no fees and use that only for e-bay / paypal and keep the balance
low,
just in case something gets hacked. But now I have to go to the bank,
or
perhaps open an account on-line. E-bay is NOT making it easier for the
small seller. More and more e-bay is just becoming a venue for cheap
Chinese goods and wholesale garbage.
So, just wondering what folks here plan to do about selling their old
gear, and working with ebay in the future. Anyone have any good Ideas or
workarounds to the e-bay problem, or an alternate e-venue for buying and
selling old gear? E-bay has been a collector's and hobbyist's goldmine
for
20 years. It's sad to see it continually changing for the worse.
I am sensitive to the fact that this is a topic only tangentially
related to Tek or HP gear, so please keep replies relevant to how e-bay
is
a conduit for acquiring such gear for us. I'm happy to take replies
off-group as well, but if it's relevant, I presume we all want to hear
about it.
Thanks,
Dan
