• You have been selling on eBay for less than 90 days • You have an eBay feedback score fewer than 100 as a seller and have not yet established a record of good performance • You have received fewer than 20 Detatiled Seller Ratings on eBay in the last 12 months or your eBay seller performance is below standard • You have a high rate of customer disputes or a low eBay feedback percentage • You have been a PayPal member for less than 6 months and have limited selling activity • You have a sudden change in selling activities (e.g. suddenly selling expensive items, selling large numbers of items, etc.) • You happen to be selling in a high risk category such as tickets, travel, gift vouchers, computers, electronics, mobile phones, etc. Depending on the circumstances, paypal may set aside payments for a single transaction or for all payments to sellers who meet the criteria above.
How can I get the payments released before 21 days.
1. If your buyer leaves feedback (pos) then funds are normally released within 48 hours of that feedback being left. 2. If you decide to send an item trackable then you can add the tracking number to the details of the paypal transaction and funds are then released when the item shows as delivered + 3 days.
Its for buyer protection > if a seller refuses to refund a buyer for an item not received and paypal can't access funds in the sellers account then they refund the buyer themselves.
So to protect themselves and still be able to offer buyer protection they hang on to the funds of new sellers until they have a record of good performance.
The mechanics seems to be vulnerable to scam/frauds. If the receiver makes an agreement with the courier or he's a courier himself and declares to have lost the package, the receiver gets the goods + the refund. How is the seller protected in this case?
