When will funds be released after receiving positive feedback by my ebay buyer

[ax727882]

I received positive feedback by my buyer for an ebay sale more than 24 hours ago and my funds are still on hold. I have no negative feedback on any item but I only have 16 positives and this is my second sale. Any idea when my money will clear? Paypal said positive feedback on the item sold would release the hold within 24 hours.

[Dontlikeitman]

dont be fooled by what surplusdealdude is saying about the lawsuit. one is taking place. all you have to do to fine out the truth is just look up Feed & Weiss and find out for yourself. plus i remember back in 2003 when people just like surplusdealdude said about that lawsuit not having a prayer. man how come someone settled out side of the court then and the other party was the one that won and paypal back then lost. i have a strong feeling this lawsuit also has a good amount of prayer to winning as well.. and i have a feeling it will not be paypal again either but rather the other party as again though. you see paypal has to many holes itself just like ebay does. if you go to ebays web site and look and read each page they do conflick them selfs in parts. like on one page it will say one thing about one area THEN on the other page it will THEN say something different about that SAME area that was mention on the other page. then you have to ask yourself which do you do as each conflicks the other. paypal is the way when you call them up when ebay tells you to talk to them about a issue yet the person at paypal tells you to talk to ebay about the issue. so who do you really talk to because they are conflicking each other.

I have also seen and red the lawsuit complaint that was filed. it red "up to 180 days". but the good idea would be to do the search for the place and find there info and give them a call and ask them. that way you know for 100% yourself the real asnwer and what the suit is really for. This way you can find out for yourself from the horses mouth itself.

now about ebay and paypal. what really got me one night was i emailed paypal a email asking afew questions, now i didn't go through their stupid emailing here at the site as that gets you no where. no i went through a email that i had recived from paypal before back in around March about a question i had asked and they asnwered to back them. now here is how bad they are **bleep**ed up now.. they will tell you that them and ebay are NOT the same company well that one night when i emailed paypal i got a return email back afew days later from a woman at ebay!! she basic told me that if i wanted help to what i had ask i had to go to paypal.. um.. hello i emailed paypal originally so why or how did ebay come into play when i emailed paypal? and that im being told to email paypal now when i did that and yet i got a return email from ebay and not paypal. 

after i returned that email back and told the lady that i just caught them at there own lie and that i had and did email paypal through that email as it was from paypal and not ebay and how come she returned the email to me was down right strange sence she said i had to go to get ahold of paypal and that they wasnt them. 

[anp46]

Ok , Providing a tracking #  and providing delivery confirmation are two completely different animals.

 Anyone can provide a tracking #. Then they could cancel it once they have convinced the buyer the item has shipped. I understand ebays stance on that.

However, once the item has been scanned into USPS. That's it.

NOW, a delivery confirmation is just that, That goes way beyond the call of duty, to satisfy eBay. Release the money.

It is no longer e-bays responsibility to see if the buyer likes the item or not. Or if they have any issues w/item.

First and foremost, buyer tries to work it out w/seller. If not resolved, open a claim.

How can eBay, with a good conscience, decide to hold the sellers money from him,her.

Who is to say, that the buyer, has not, tampered with, altered in some way the item purchased? Is eBay going to be there w/a camera when the item is opened? This holding the money for positive input is ridiculous.

The whole concept of buying this way is being destroyed. There are always going to be cons/thieves/dirt bags. But what are you doing to your long standing customers?

Bad taste in my mouth. Bad Business practice. Shame on you eBay.

[surplusdealdude]

However, once the item has been scanned into USPS. That's it.

No, that's NOT it.

Your responsibility is to deliver the item you sold in the condition that you sold it to the buyer.

Using your logic, sellers could mail buyer's a rock and get away with it.

That very problem occurs with off-ebay sales.

[unitoons]

Using your logic, a buyer could return a rock to me as well.  Seriously though, where do the rules stipulate that I have to buy postage on-line?  A USPS tracking number that proves the item was "delivered and accepted" at the location you sent it to should be sufficient.  Sorry, but this whole buyer satisfaction thing seems to only be an excuse for Paypal to earn interest on the millions they hold from people.  You won't convice me otherwise.  I will however agree on one point.  I need to find another pay service.  One that does exactly what they claim to do...accepting and dispensing funds from transactions.

[surplusdealdude]

Using your logic, a buyer could return a rock to me as well.

Yes, they can - it's been done.  Common scam, in fact.

Seriously though, where do the rules stipulate that I have to buy postage on-line?

No such rule.  You can get DC from the counter at USPS as well - it's a neon green sticker.  Online postage is cheaper, though.

Sorry, but this whole buyer satisfaction thing seems to only be an excuse for Paypal to earn interest on the millions they hold from people.

Au contraire.  I think it actually costs them money to run it.  Where before, they could just transfer the money into your account and that was it, they nopw have to monitor it for feedback and/or delivery and pay it out in non-standard days plus they have to deal with the tens of thousands of extra calls that this encourages.  All this for 1/6th of a percent interest.

ebay has been bugging them to expand the program and they've been resisting - they wouldn't resist if this was such a money-maker, they'd have everybody on the system by now.

[surplusdealdude]

Youir point was;

Once a tracking number has been established, funds should be immediately released

A tracking number is established once you buy postage online.  NOT when it has been mailed, NOT when it has been delivered.

Also, who is gaining interest on these funds?

That's irrelevant because the funds are not yours until you ful;fil the condition necessary to release the funds.  If you don't, there will be a dispute filed and you'll never get the funds.

So, if Paypal is earning funds on this money, it's THEIR money and they're entitled to.

As long as they release funds when they have agreed to, you have no viable complaint.