where is the BILL ME LATER payment option?

[teddyP]

tried to pay for items in EBAY and my BILL ME LATER payment option is GONE!!  how to get it back? what steps do I take... went to my bill me later account page... and paypal account did some adjustments but still no.... BILL ME LATER PAYMENT OPTION shows up... please HELP....

[zombiwoof]

There have been many questions about this problem, and much erroneous info posted about linking your PayPal and BillMeLater accounts, and I have been part of the discussion.   I recently happened on one way to pay for most of your Ebay purchases using BillMeLater:

When you hit the "Pay Now" button, and get to the payment options, instead of choosing "pay using PayPal" (or what ever the wording is), choose the option that says something like "Don't have a PayPal account? " that says you can pay by a credit card or other means.   I tried that lately and guess what, along with the credit card options, it now includes an option to pay by BillMeLater.   It appears that you are signing up for BillMeLater for the first time, they even mention the initial free $10 credit for your first purchase, but if you have a BillMeLater account and choose that option to use BillMeLater, it will ask the usual questions (last four numbers of SS number, your zip code, etc.) and then it will approve you for charging the item to BillMeLater.   I have done this twice now, and it has worked fine.   I think this is the way they have decided to "fix" the problem, even though I haven't seen any announcement about it.  So next time you make an Ebay purchase, choose the option to pay with other credit cards instead of the option to use PayPal, and I think you'll see the BillMeLater option listed there.  I just accidently discovered this in a recent Ebay purchase I made, and I think it may be the only way to use your BillMeLater account to pay for Ebay purchases at this time, they are considering it an alternate payment method, along with credit cards.   Check it out.   I thought I'd pass this on, as it seems to be their answer to this question that many have asked.  The charge will show on your BillMeLater account page, but not on your PayPal account page (at least in my case, that's what has happened).

Alan

[wajon]

Hi Alan,

I too discovered this peculiar means to get to the Bill Me Later option. But in my case, and probably yours too, although you didn't mention it, even though you might say it looks like you are applying for/opening a new Bill Me Later account, the form is prepopulated with personal information. Is that coming from Ebay? Or PayPal? Or an existing Bill Me Later account? Who knows, but in some way there is obviously a connection. In the past month and initially for a few transactions, the actual Bill Me Later option showed up (I think possibly it showed up ON the Ebay item transaction page before opting for a payment method, but then it stopped showing up. And I couldn't seem to use it, until I too discovered exactly as you did that if you did NOT choose to sign in to PayPal at that point, i.e., you chose option which stated something like "don't have a PayPal account" then you were presented with the option to use Bill Me Later, or some other credit card. But as I say, it MUST be already linked to the Bill Me Later account since it's prepopulated with info from there, or so it seems. All very convoluted and confusing! Makes me sometimes feel like our whole banking system is based on a fragile "house of cards" and could come tumbling down at any moment! But for the record, the transactions do show up on the existing Bill Me Later account page, and I have also made payments on those charges, so that system seems to be taking the transaction info in properly, even if the Ebay/PayPal/Bill Me Later checkout page is not synced properly, or doesn't seem to be. I'm adding this long detailed reply, basically repeating what you wrote, because I spent HOURS trying to find an answer to this problem! And I'm certain we two are not the only ones confused by this seeming lack of synchronization between the 3 systems.

Hope this helps others find the answers more quickly and more easily than I did!

Wajon

[zombiwoof]

There have been a LOT of threads about this problem, and the moderators have been saying all along they were working on a solution, and I'm convinced that this is their attempt to at least temporarily give people an option to use BillMeLater on their Ebay purchases.   What I don't understand is why they haven't made some sort of formal announcement to BillMeLater members about this, considering the amount of confusion the whole thing has caused, and the MANY threads that have been started on this forum by people who don't know how to use BML for Ebay buys.  For now, I have found a way to use BML for Ebay purchases by this method, what I'm afraid of is that it might change suddenly and I'll be stuck with a purchase that I can't pay for with BML, and I'll have to cancel the transaction, so I'm wary about it.  They need to make people aware of this way to use BML for Ebay by announcing it to everyone, if they intend this to be the way it will be handled from now on.

Al

[salana]

Thank you so much!  This worked!