Comments on: PayPal is Now Required for ALL eBay.com Listings http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/paypal-is-now-required-for-all-ebaycom-listings/ The BrewsNews information blog about online sales, eBay, Amazon, Bonanzle and oh so much more! Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bill http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/paypal-is-now-required-for-all-ebaycom-listings/#comment-1893 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:39:29 +0000 http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-1893 EBAY should not be able to require sellers to only advertise paypal as the only acceptable form of payment. They have eliminated US Post Office money orders. I do not use paypal, thus now am being kept from placing bids, even though I have 100% positive feedback. THis is just plain wrong.

]]> By: Javeed http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/paypal-is-now-required-for-all-ebaycom-listings/#comment-1447 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:14:04 +0000 http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-1447 Hi,

Its very sad news about me because paypal is not supported my country so how i can open seller account on ebay if i register after 2007 :(

]]> By: Richard http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/paypal-is-now-required-for-all-ebaycom-listings/#comment-1141 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:34:24 +0000 http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-1141 I am an occasional eBayer, and mostly buy from them. If I make a small purchase, i typically send a money order (USPO). I do use Pay Pal if it is over $50-60. It’s just easier to me and what I prefer. Some sellers are still honoring money orders, but many are not, and they cite “new eBay policy” as the excuse. I have complained to eBay, but got the standard line about how Pay Pal or credit card payments are better, more secure, blah, blah, blah. It sure seems like they are trying to cut out some aspects of eBay that made it so convenient to buy and sell items. I don’t like it, and I’ve told eBay that my activities with them will be severely curtailed. Thanks for nothing, eBay!

]]> By: Christina Marlowe http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/paypal-is-now-required-for-all-ebaycom-listings/#comment-1106 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:22:09 +0000 http://thebrewsnews.wordpress.com/?p=127#comment-1106 I have been trying, since April, 2007, to initiate a class action law suit against Ebay and Paypal, both as separate entities and as corporations acting in outright COLLUSION with one another,
not to mention unspeakably unfair and egregious business practices, glaring monopolistic behaviors, Paypal’s acting as a bank with no license and without consumer protections, etc., etc., etc.

This is a brief summary of what happened to me in April, 2007:

I noticed that Paypal had been making double payments to some of my sellers, so I called Paypal to inquire as to the problem. Each representative refused to sort out the double payments, stated that they could not get my money back and, further, Paypal finally blamed me for “pressing the pay button twice”. NONSENSE!!! I then noticed that Paypal also made unauthorized payments to at least one person that I did not even know. Paypal supervisors, each and every one of them, categorically denied any wrongdoing or fault. By the way, Paypal was sued successfully in the U.K. for the exact same payment system “glitches.”

So, in order to avoid bank overdrafts, I then had to freeze my bank account and suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, I received a flood of unpaid item strikes on my Ebay account, Ebay immediately proceeded to suspend my account, i.e. my entire business, and summarily listed me as “no longer a registered user.” In a mere three days, I lost my entire Ebay business that I built over the course of four and a half years, 2,600 transactions, and a spotless, perfect reputation.

I had been trying to pay my many sellers for hundreds of items worth over $7,000.00, which I would then sell to retail stores. The money was in my account and ready to be paid out. Since Ebay shut me out of my own account and listed me as “no longer a registered user,” my sellers began to email me to inquire about payment. I could not see who had been paid, who had sent items, etc. Everything was unaccounted for as I could no longer access my own business.

Further, after having transferred $6,000.00 into my paypal account on the 5th of April, Paypal then tried to withdraw from my bank account in excess of another $5,000.00. And my entire account (that is, my entire business) was and still is totally blocked from me.

No one on either Ebay or Paypal would help me, nor would they admit any fault. Never, not once, over the course of several months, did I get to speak with the same person; rather, I had to repeat myself over and over and over again. Additionally, each and every worker and each and every supervisor has been absolutely unwilling to help in any way, and each was most cavalier, arrogant and condescending. Each one of them, whether on Ebay or on Paypal, spouted nothing but canned, party-line responses that did not even address my particular situation. Each representative continued stonewalling me at each and every turn. One supervisor, a particularly smug man named Dylan, told me to get an account manager…through Paypal!!

I have collected over one thousand complaints against Ebay and/or Paypal. I need a law firm willing to take these monolithic bastards to task.
PLEASE contact me so I can keep adding to my list of people that have been wronged…It is only a matter of time before Ebay and Paypal gets it all back in spades.

Sincerely,

Christina Marlowe
Santa Barbara, CA
christinamarlowe@earthlink.net

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