Hi;
My wife has an ebay account for ten plus years without any problems whatsoever. I however never used it until most recently. I had bought a couple of Items and decided to sell a coupole of items. Here is what I have found to be most important to Me REGARDLESS, I think all you people should know this too.
I am Canadian and have a paypal account in US Currency. I have the money taken from my Canadian bank account and transferred funds to my Pay Pal account and its american funds form my Canadian account.
As stated I had sold a couple of items, However I never got paid, apparently this person bids, and never pays for anything he buys. I did not know this until sometime has gone by. So I emailed ebay and told them.
Ebay kept sending me a bill for almost $100.00 American dollars, at this time the US dollar is more then the Canadian dollar. I kept telling Ebay there was no sale and they should know this by looking at my Pay Pal account since they own Pay pal they can see if I was paid.
Time goes by no problems until I tried one day to bid on something I could not my or I should say my wifes account was froozen by Ebay. I of course called Ebay and told them what had happened and why did they not bother to answer my many eamils. They were charging me almost 100 dollars which was ten percent of what I sold, So to be clean the items sold were 499 dollar each so total was 998 American dollars. Ebays bill was about 92.00 US dollars.
thats a lot of cake to pay to sell something, however Ebay squared things away but prior I withdrew my or my wifes ok to take m oney out of pay pal automatically from ebay. Which means Ebay cant just take money from pay pal
Ebay cleared things up and we paid ebay the four dollars yes correct $4.00 or there abouts thats what we owed them.
Thought things were ok after that. I was also told which really upset me that as Canadian I can not have a Pay Pal funds sent in americna dollars to me it has to be in Canadian funds. Because I am Canadian but Americans can have pay pal deposit funds into their account either in American funds or Canadian funds but Canadians can not do that.
Thats ok it still does not bother me. What bothers me is when I tried to list something for sale I was stopped and told by a message "BECAUSE OF YOUR PAYMENT HISTORY YOU NEED TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO EBAY RIGHT AWAY SO YOU NEED TO TELL PAY PAL THAT ITS OK FOR EBAY TO TAKE MONEY OUT ANYTIME THEY WANT"
Thats a bunch of crap I think. I had to allow ebay to take funds or change my pay pal to let ebay take funds out when we owe ebay money or if we sell an item ebay can just take it from my pay pal.
my point is simple as Canadian I can not have pay pal pay me in american funds. Ebay owns pay pal yet one hand does not know what the other hand is doing.
Let me know if you understand what my point is you can reach me anytime
In closing I do not thinks its fair and also eight percent is a lot of money to pay to sell an item, you have to purchase or sell something for about ten percent higher or charge it back somehow.
Cheers
Stan
100% Canadian and proud of it.
please let me know if you think I am right or wrong
