HORRIBLE IDEA TO HOLD FUNDS FOR 21 DAYS!!!

[gearhed78]

  Holding funds from sellers until the buyer leaves feedback is the worst idea EVER! Since when does Paypal become an authority on buyer satisfaction?? A smooth transaction is all that I wanted from Paypal. If they are going to hold funds, then they should make it very clear BEFORE you use them!  Keeping my money in their account for 21 days is a HUGE disadvantage of using Paypal. Stick to transferring funds,not trying to be a satisfaction authority!

[the_grot_shoppe]

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As for other selling venues, if you read through this forum, you will see people mentioning Craig's List and Etsy with some regularity.  There are a number of payment processing venues identified as well, though each has pros and cons.  The good thing about Craig's List and Etsy is that you are free to accept any kind of payment you desire.

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Thanks for mentioning that. There are 406 pages here and I wasn't about to read them all. I've never heard of Esty, I'll have to check them out.

I have tried Bonanza and what's nice about them is your stuff is up until you remove it or it sells.

[7yearseller]

You are very much a part of how soon your funds are released. You can ship priority and have your funds released within that two week period you are talking about.

Also, there are people whose jobs pay monthly and not in advance, so the two weeks is not the maximum.

If you think you can only get a job at McDonalds and your unemployment is running out soon, then maybe you should contact Mickey D's. I see jobs in the paper all the time. Sometimes we have to take something that is not exactly what we want or less than we would like to make and build on that.

It is doubtful that you were or are making enough on eBay, regardless of the  hold, to support yourself. If you were, you would not need your money so quickly. So, it seems eBay was not the answer, although it can be nice for supplemental income, and if it is supplemental, count it a blessing and be thankful eBay even exists. You could go to Amazon, but they also hold.

Also, you do not have to use Paypal. Open a merchant's account with your bank. If you don't have good credit, there are merchant accounts online for those people as well. Sure, they cost 29.95 a month, but isn't that better than not doing anything. That way you can get paid because eBay does allow a merchant account and few other payment methods that are listed in the policies.

[the_grot_shoppe]

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@7yearseller wrote:

You are very much a part of how soon your funds are released. You can ship priority and have your funds released within that two week period you are talking about.

If you think you can only get a job at McDonalds and your unemployment is running out soon, then maybe you should contact Mickey D's. I see jobs in the paper all the time. Sometimes we have to take something that is not exactly what we want or less than we would like to make and build on that.

It is doubtful that you were or are making enough on eBay, regardless of the  hold, to support yourself. If you were, you would not need your money so quickly. So, it seems eBay was not the answer, although it can be nice for supplemental income, and if it is supplemental, count it a blessing and be thankful eBay even exists. You could go to Amazon, but they also hold.

Also, you do not have to use Paypal. Open a merchant's account with your bank. If you don't have good credit, there are merchant accounts online for those people as well. Sure, they cost 29.95 a month, but isn't that better than not doing anything. That way you can get paid because eBay does allow a merchant account and few other payment methods that are listed in the policies.

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I always ship priority, but still my funds are on hold. I've gotten feedback from recent sales, still my funds are on hold. I've done what they've dictated, still my funds are on hold. They say I can print a label while the funds are held, but I can't, I have to go to USPS.com and print one from there and guess what, it  doesn't come from my paypal balance. I have to pay it from another source.

I didn't say I can only get a job at McDonalds, Blunt kept saying I should get  a job there. I informed him that my unemployment pays more than McDonald's, so no I wouldn't be working there. I was not going to accept less money than I was getting.  BTW I'm not dissing the fast food industry for jobs, many people work there and enjoy it.  As for you seeing many jobs listed, I send out hundreds of resumes a week, but if no one wants to interview you, what good does it do? Wait until you've been unemployed for 15 months, living on unemployment and  ebay sales, and then tell me how you feel about paypal holding YOUR money.

As far as how much I make on ebay, it's enough to pay a couple of the bills and in conjunction with my unemployment, I make ends meet, and yes I do need it quickly, nearly all my bills are due on the 15th of each month. What am I supposed to pay them with?

Regardless of the reason I would like my funds, I sold an item, I want MY money. I've already paid both ebay and paypal for their services, so there should be no hold.

Seriously, why are you defending them? Do you work for Paypal or ebay?

[7yearseller]

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@the_grot_shoppe wrote:

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@7yearseller wrote:

You are very much a part of how soon your funds are released. You can ship priority and have your funds released within that two week period you are talking about.

If you think you can only get a job at McDonalds and your unemployment is running out soon, then maybe you should contact Mickey D's. I see jobs in the paper all the time. Sometimes we have to take something that is not exactly what we want or less than we would like to make and build on that.

It is doubtful that you were or are making enough on eBay, regardless of the  hold, to support yourself. If you were, you would not need your money so quickly. So, it seems eBay was not the answer, although it can be nice for supplemental income, and if it is supplemental, count it a blessing and be thankful eBay even exists. You could go to Amazon, but they also hold.

Also, you do not have to use Paypal. Open a merchant's account with your bank. If you don't have good credit, there are merchant accounts online for those people as well. Sure, they cost 29.95 a month, but isn't that better than not doing anything. That way you can get paid because eBay does allow a merchant account and few other payment methods that are listed in the policies.

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I always ship priority, but still my funds are on hold. I've gotten feedback from recent sales, still my funds are on hold. I've done what they've dictated, still my funds are on hold. They say I can print a label while the funds are held, but I can't, I have to go to USPS.com and print one from there and guess what, it  doesn't come from my paypal balance. I have to pay it from another source. You can't print labels from the USPS site and expect Paypal to know you have shipped and have the tracking number nor will they know when the item is delivered to have proof of receipt. If you print your labels through Paypal (not eBay), they then have the information they need to know when to release your funds. Your shipping funds are first paid by you from your back up source in Paypal, and within 24 hours they are released. You will see in your Paypal this is happening, so keep a couple of those in Paypal so when you print a label again from Paypal, it will come from the released shipping funds.

I didn't say I can only get a job at McDonalds, Blunt kept saying I should get  a job there. I informed him that my unemployment pays more than McDonald's, so no I wouldn't be working there. I was not going to accept less money than I was getting.  BTW I'm not dissing the fast food industry for jobs, many people work there and enjoy it.  As for you seeing many jobs listed, I send out hundreds of resumes a week, but if no one wants to interview you, what good does it do?  Some companies do not have jobs posted in the paper or the Internet. There was a time when the only way you could find a job was to go from company to company, door to door, and it worked. Companies are more impressed with proactive applicants, those who do not wait until they see an ad to answer. I know because the first job I ever had I did it just that way and found a job not advertised paying more than any I knew were available that many others had already applied. Wait until you've been unemployed for 15 months, living on unemployment and  ebay sales, and then tell me how you feel about paypal holding YOUR money. That really isn't the idea of unemployment meaning they are not there to provide you with monies if you can get a job somewhere until you can find a better one, but I do understand how that would be a temptation and I also know many people likely do this. Also, I have been in your position and it was for almost three years. That is when I started selling on eBay. Back then we allowed our good customers to shop for a few weeks until we sent a larger box with combined shipping. Now, that is also waiting for our money, but doing that on a regular basis, it finally came to the day where no matter how long they had shopped (or held our money if you would like to compare this to Paypal and the end result), other customers had done the same thing but not at the same time, so at a given point there were payments being made everyday. Does that make sense to you how at some point it is going to seem like you don't have a hold at all IF you CONTINUE TO SELL and are consistent.

As far as how much I make on ebay, it's enough to pay a couple of the bills and in conjunction with my unemployment, I make ends meet, and yes I do need it quickly, nearly all my bills are due on the 15th of each month. What am I supposed to pay them with? For likely not the first time in your life, you are going to have to call those due and tell them you will be late. People will work with you if you are the one who lets them know before you are actually late. Then, as the cycle goes, and if you are consistent in your selling, the cycle will come round full circle and you will see your funds released. Yes, they would have been on hold, but they will release consistently. At the end of the time you decide to stop selling on eBay, for a few weeks after you stop, you will have income from holds placed before you stopped. HOWEVER, if you do this consistently,your funds may stop being released at times and then at times they may start again. This is how Paypal states it can happen. The more consistent you are, the faster they see the tracking number come up after the sale, good communication with your customer through eBay messenging, no disputes filed, you should have your funds not on hold IF you don't change selling categories. They also want to see how reliable even the best of sellers is with selling a product not in the same category in which they have done so well previously.

Regardless of the reason I would like my funds, I sold an item, I want MY money. I've already paid both ebay and paypal for their services, so there should be no hold. They did that for years, and many worthless sellers moved their money from Paypal to their checking account, then emptied that checking account, did not ship, so when a chargeback was filed, there was no money in Paypal or their account that Paypal could use to pay the buyer for the item they did not receive, so the money came from Paypal. A business can only go so long that way with money seeping out from bad sellers, so they need to know the seller is going to fulfill their obligation, and the way to do that is to hold the funds until the seller has the item. This is based on them having the information of the shipping date and tracking number and they also want now to have the seller know they have received the correct item before they release the funds. Bad sellers sometimes sent junk instead of an expensive item they showed in the auction and by the time the buyer knew this, that seller had that buyers money and was gone. This could be done on a number of items by a number of sellers even in one day.

Seriously, why are you defending them? Do you work for Paypal or ebay? I defend them as a company that has allowed many sellers who could not make supplemental income otherwise to sell and make make money without so much as a background check, not a credit check, nothing. For years, they have offered this and allowed the sellers to have their money as soon as it was in their account while other forms of payment have had holds for years and still do, some being for as long as 180 days. I know this because I have checked around myself, and this is still the best deal there is. No, I don't work for them, but I do defend them because this information about holds being a possibility has been in their policies from the beginning, and all it took was for sellers to read the policies to know this. But, as sellers are sellers (and I am as well) we don't do that. We go along our merry way accepting this as business as usual, but it was not. Holds were elsewhere but not yet on Paypal. THEN when the hold affects a seller, they come in here very irrate that Paypal would hold their money when Paypal had the option from inception of holding funds, but they did not except in rare cases. Example: A family member sold a guitar for just under $1000. Because the buyer did not leave a feedback, and due to the amount, the funds were held. The seller had to produce the tracking number to Paypal or eBay, not sure which now, and the funds were released immediately. Those were the typical holds and still are. However, with a slow bleed of money caused by scam selling, the bleed has to be stopped, and the only way to do that is to make sure the customer does receive the funds and did get what they ordered.

Like Paypal _Andy ( a moderator here) said, keep a few shipping amounts back in your Paypal not sending them to the bank, so then when you have a shipment, the monies will come from that Paypal balance. You will always have a few shipping amounts tied up.

Honestly, where else can you go to get so much traffic to look at your items for sale and pay so little because you do not have to have a brick and mortar store, do not have to stand out in the heat and cold of a flea market, and when you do go to such places, how much do you have to bring back home and did you sell the item for a lot less than you could get on eBay? Personally, I tried that a few months back, and I know the items would have sold on eBay and for more than I was asking at the flea market, but we sold two items and brought the rest back. Time, gas money, table rental, and we broke even. I didn't have the luxury of knowing things were sold and I would get my money in a fairly short time compared to not at all.

The only people who work for Paypal or eBay who are on here will have their picture and blue around it. No matter what some who go against anything positive say, pay no attention. They only want people to stop using Paypal. The ones who "got it" when it was explained have not been back in here except for two of us, one being me and another who also has no hold on their funds and he happily came back to report that. He didn't know why it happened so quickly, but nevertheless it did happen. Others must have had their released as they did understand why and said they were going to continue selling. No sign of them again, and you know they would be back here if it didn't work out. Unhappy people need a place to vent.

I hope this answered not only yours but others answers. Don't be surprised when you see a not so nice retort by a very negative person on here about this being such a long answer and hoping you are still awake. That has already happened this past week. I am only here to help people find out what I learned when I came in irrate, looked at all the complaints and decided to just keep on selling to see what would happen, and a positive result came from it. Consider all the monies not made by the sellers on here who are proud to say they have not sold a thing on eBay since this started which was their choice. Somehow that does not seem to do anything but bite them in the pocketbook which is what their concern was to start with.

If you prefer to keep this private, you can email me by going to the upper right where you see the envelope, click there and put in my name as 7yearseller to send an email. I would have done this privately, but I did that once with another and it appears they could not find the email or they just wanted to be here to complain and not take action to get where they really want to be. Admittedly, this is more like an email to you although it would be beneficial to other sellers who read it, but also admittedly it is too long for this post.

Naysayers, you don't need to tell me how long this was. I know that. All I can say about that to one in particular is that I do have this much positive information to share to help people and not just continue to call Paypal names.

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[the_grot_shoppe]

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@7yearseller wrote:

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@the_grot_shoppe wrote:

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@7yearseller wrote:

You are very much a part of how soon your funds are released. You can ship priority and have your funds released within that two week period you are talking about.

If you think you can only get a job at McDonalds and your unemployment is running out soon, then maybe you should contact Mickey D's. I see jobs in the paper all the time. Sometimes we have to take something that is not exactly what we want or less than we would like to make and build on that.

It is doubtful that you were or are making enough on eBay, regardless of the  hold, to support yourself. If you were, you would not need your money so quickly. So, it seems eBay was not the answer, although it can be nice for supplemental income, and if it is supplemental, count it a blessing and be thankful eBay even exists. You could go to Amazon, but they also hold.

Also, you do not have to use Paypal. Open a merchant's account with your bank. If you don't have good credit, there are merchant accounts online for those people as well. Sure, they cost 29.95 a month, but isn't that better than not doing anything. That way you can get paid because eBay does allow a merchant account and few other payment methods that are listed in the policies.

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I always ship priority, but still my funds are on hold. I've gotten feedback from recent sales, still my funds are on hold. I've done what they've dictated, still my funds are on hold. They say I can print a label while the funds are held, but I can't, I have to go to USPS.com and print one from there and guess what, it  doesn't come from my paypal balance. I have to pay it from another source. You can't print labels from the USPS site and expect Paypal to know you have shipped and have the tracking number nor will they know when the item is delivered to have proof of receipt. If you print your labels through Paypal (not eBay), they then have the information they need to know when to release your funds. Your shipping funds are first paid by you from your back up source in Paypal, and within 24 hours they are released. You will see in your Paypal this is happening, so keep a couple of those in Paypal so when you print a label again from Paypal, it will come from the released shipping funds.  You misunderstand, I wasn't saying that I expected paypal to know I shipped from the  USPS site, I  was saying that paypal claims I can still print labels from my balance, but I can't, and have to go through the USPS site  to print them, defeating the purpose of supposedly being able to print from paypal. It doesn't matter if I try to pay for a label through ebay or paypal, their system doesn't not allow me to which is contrary to what their policy states. I have had funds in my paypal account for over a week and 1/2 and still can not print a simple label, so your 24 hour theory doesn't hold water. I also provide paypal with the tracking numbers I've obtained through the USPS site so they have that information of when it was shipped, and then when it will be received.

I didn't say I can only get a job at McDonalds, Blunt kept saying I should get  a job there. I informed him that my unemployment pays more than McDonald's, so no I wouldn't be working there. I was not going to accept less money than I was getting.  BTW I'm not dissing the fast food industry for jobs, many people work there and enjoy it.  As for you seeing many jobs listed, I send out hundreds of resumes a week, but if no one wants to interview you, what good does it do?  Some companies do not have jobs posted in the paper or the Internet. There was a time when the only way you could find a job was to go from company to company, door to door, and it worked. Companies are more impressed with proactive applicants, those who do not wait until they see an ad to answer. I know because the first job I ever had I did it just that way and found a job not advertised paying more than any I knew were available that many others had already applied.   I'm happy for you. You found a job that wasn't advertised. Guess what? I've been networking with everyone I can think of because they usually know when their company is hiring and what they're looking for, but nothing has surfaced. I'm on Linkedin, and other networking sites as well, but nothing has surfaced. Wait until you've been unemployed for 15 months, living on unemployment and  ebay sales, and then tell me how you feel about paypal holding YOUR money. That really isn't the idea of unemployment meaning they are not there to provide you with monies if you can get a job somewhere until you can find a better one, but I do understand how that would be a temptation and I also know many people likely do this. Also, I have been in your position and it was for almost three years. That was before they started holding our money hostage. That is when I started selling on eBay. Back then we allowed our good customers to shop for a few weeks until we sent a larger box with combined shipping. Now, that is also waiting for our money, but doing that on a regular basis, it finally came to the day where no matter how long they had shopped (or held our money if you would like to compare this to Paypal and the end result), other customers had done the same thing but not at the same time, so at a given point there were payments being made everyday. Does that make sense to you how at some point it is going to seem like you don't have a hold at all IF you CONTINUE TO SELL and are consistent. The big difference is once your customer paid you, you had your money, no one was keeping it from you like paypal is now.

As far as how much I make on ebay, it's enough to pay a couple of the bills and in conjunction with my unemployment, I make ends meet, and yes I do need it quickly, nearly all my bills are due on the 15th of each month. What am I supposed to pay them with? For likely not the first time in your life, you are going to have to call those due and tell them you will be late.  I have never been late with my bills and resent that you are implying I'm some sort of deadbeat who is often late. I pay all my bills on time, every month. You're getting really personal here, watch your step. People will work with you if you are the one who lets them know before you are actually late. Then, as the cycle goes, and if you are consistent in your selling, the cycle will come round full circle and you will see your funds released. Yes, they would have been on hold, but they will release consistently. At the end of the time you decide to stop selling on eBay, for a few weeks after you stop, you will have income from holds placed before you stopped. HOWEVER, if you do this consistently,your funds may stop being released at times and then at times they may start again. This is how Paypal states it can happen. The more consistent you are, the faster they see the tracking number come up after the sale, good communication with your customer through eBay messenging, no disputes filed, you should have your funds not on hold IF you don't change selling categories. They also want to see how reliable even the best of sellers is with selling a product not in the same category in which they have done so well previously. Paypal and ebay think we're all morons. I've been selling on ebay since 1999 and never had any issues with the frequency of when I list. Thye're just being greedy - they want us to list more , make sure we list the same number of items all the time (to be "consistent"), give them more of our money.... Then if we don't sell in a category we have done well in before, we're penalized? Maybe people just aren't buying in that category, did they ever think of that? Or maybe I just don't have what someone is looking for?

Regardless of the reason I would like my funds, I sold an item, I want MY money. I've already paid both ebay and paypal for their services, so there should be no hold. They did that for years, and many worthless sellers moved their money from Paypal to their checking account, then emptied that checking account, did not ship, so when a chargeback was filed, there was no money in Paypal or their account that Paypal could use to pay the buyer for the item they did not receive, so the money came from Paypal. So I'm being penalized because of them? That's hardly fair. A business can only go so long that way with money seeping out from bad sellers, so they need to know the seller is going to fulfill their obligation, and the way to do that is to hold the funds until the seller has the item. This is based on them having the information of the shipping date and tracking number and they also want now to have the seller know they have received the correct item before they release the funds. Bad sellers sometimes sent junk instead of an expensive item they showed in the auction and by the time the buyer knew this, that seller had that buyers money and was gone. This could be done on a number of items by a number of sellers even in one day. I'm not guilty of any of that and don't know of any sellers that are, but we're all being penalized for the ones that did.

Seriously, why are you defending them? Do you work for Paypal or ebay? I defend them as a company that has allowed many sellers who could not make supplemental income otherwise to sell and make make money without so much as a background check, not a credit check, nothing. . For years, they have offered this and allowed the sellers to have their money as soon as it was in their account while other forms of payment have had holds for years and still do, some being for as long as 180 days. And now we can't even accept checks or money orders for payments, we HAVE to use their service which fees the snot out of us. They dictate how my customers pay me when some of them don't like paypal they want to pay with checks or money orders, and its because they can't get a fee from us out of a check or money order. I know this because I have checked around myself, and this is still the best deal there is. No, I don't work for them, but I do defend them because this information about holds being a possibility has been in their policies from the beginning, and all it took was for sellers to read the policies to know this. But that hold shouldn't be across the board, it should only be on sellers who have proven to ship late or have complaints againxt them. But, as sellers are sellers (and I am as well) we don't do that. We go along our merry way accepting this as business as usual, but it was not. Holds were elsewhere but not yet on Paypal. THEN when the hold affects a seller, they come in here very irrate that Paypal would hold their money when Paypal had the option from inception of holding funds, but they did not except in rare cases. Example: A family member sold a guitar for just under $1000. Because the buyer did not leave a feedback, and due to the amount, the funds were held. The seller had to produce the tracking number to Paypal or eBay, not sure which now, and the funds were released immediately. Those were the typical holds and still are. However, with a slow bleed of money caused by scam selling, the bleed has to be stopped, and the only way to do that is to make sure the customer does receive the funds and did get what they ordered. I've been selling here since 1999. If they had any issue with me I wouldn't stilll have a paypal or ebay account.

Like Paypal _Andy ( a moderator here) said, keep a few shipping amounts back in your Paypal not sending them to the bank, so then when you have a shipment, the monies will come from that Paypal balance. You will always have a few shipping amounts tied up. And like I said, I've had money in my account for a week and a half and still can not print a simple label.

Honestly, where else can you go to get so much traffic to look at your items for sale and pay so little because you do not have to have a brick and mortar store, do not have to stand out in the heat and cold of a flea market, and when you do go to such places, how much do you have to bring back home and did you sell the item for a lot less than you could get on eBay? Personally, I tried that a few months back, and I know the items would have sold on eBay and for more than I was asking at the flea market, but we sold two items and brought the rest back. Time, gas money, table rental, and we broke even. I didn't have the luxury of knowing things were sold and I would get my money in a fairly short time compared to not at all. I've never tried a flea market so I can't comment on it.

The only people who work for Paypal or eBay who are on here will have their picture and blue around it. No matter what some who go against anything positive say, pay no attention. They only want people to stop using Paypal. The ones who "got it" when it was explained have not been back in here except for two of us, one being me and another who also has no hold on their funds and he happily came back to report that. He didn't know why it happened so quickly, but nevertheless it did happen. Others must have had their released as they did understand why and said they were going to continue selling. No sign of them again, and you know they would be back here if it didn't work out. Unhappy people need a place to vent I hadn't said  for anyone to stop using paypal, but it has been suggested by others.

I hope this answered not only yours but others answers. Don't be surprised when you see a not so nice retort by a very negative person on here about this being such a long answer and hoping you are still awake. Frankly I don't care what they think, it's nothing to do with them. if they don't like it they can report the post. That has already happened this past week. I am only here to help people find out what I learned when I came in irrate, looked at all the complaints and decided to just keep on selling to see what would happen, and a positive result came from it. Consider all the monies not made by the sellers on here who are proud to say they have not sold a thing on eBay since this started which was their choice. Somehow that does not seem to do anything but bite them in the pocketbook which is what their concern was to start with.

If you prefer to keep this private, you can email me by going to the upper right where you see the envelope, click there and put in my name as 7yearseller to send an email. I would have done this privately, but I did that once with another and it appears they could not find the email or they just wanted to be here to complain and not take action to get where they really want to be. Admittedly, this is more like an email to you although it would be beneficial to other sellers who read it, but also admittedly it is too long for this post. I understand what you're saying. But do you undersatnd what I'm saying? You said you had come here irate yourself, so you must understand my frustration.

Naysayers, you don't need to tell me how long this was. I know that. All I can say about that to one in particular is that I do have this much positive information to share to help people and not just continue to call Paypal names. Like I said, if they don't like it, they don't have to read it. You have made some valid points and I appreciate your willingness to discuss them. I don't mind getting emails, feel free to send me one.

As for me, I've vented and am moving on. There is very little to be done so until the paypal gods decide I'm worthy enough, my funds are frozen. I'm done.

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[7yearseller]

Blunt, I usually agree with everything you post, but I am going to have to disagree with money on eBay not being earned.  It takes time to find items to sell, refurbish, paint, take photos, edit the photos, upload them to a photo host, prepare the wording in the listing, weigh, measure and then when sold pack and ship and keep up with the inventory, record keeping, marketing. That is a full-time job if selling daily. If a person is finding things and are re-selling exactly as they found the item, there is still all of those things to do. In my case, not only do I refurbish, but I paint decoratively, and that is additional work. Please don't sell short the actual work of an ebay seller when they say they earned the money.

I do agree wholeheartedly with the comment about people not being paid immediately but being paid often only every two weeks. This is something I feel really does compare with waiting for funds, but each time I brought it up, you-know-who retorted that my thinking was wrong. I know it is completely comparable, but I gave up trying to get others to understand how it is basically the same.

[Gitirdun]

A few years ago,  Ebay/Paypal was collecting thousands per month from my Company.  Now they get very few dollars. No hard feelings. Business is business. I only wish they could have asked us (sellers) for some sort of security deposit or guarantee to cover risks rather than this dictated policy. Its just sad to see a Company continue to step on the very people that made them successful.

[terese2]

Well said!

[Djten]

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Are you sure about that, Djten?  I swear there have been people on this forum who have said that their money is  being held for 21 days, and they are not talking about Ebay sales.  I have no experience with that, so I cannot say for sure......

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  Yes, I'm almost sure of it. I have a store on Ioffer.com and I made a couple of transactions and the money was right there. But some other complications occurred and I had to send the buyers' money right back to them. Now you could be right about the other people and their situations and I may not have experienced ithat yet.

   Oh, and hey listen. Red and Terese2. Would you guys please cut it out and knock off the derrogatory attacks on each other??? I see by by reading your posts that both of you guys are highly intelligent and have an excellent use & command of the English language. The three of us plus a couple of others like 7, have keen and very astute views on this subject. And if this didn't affect any of us we wouldn't be wasting time on this board.  So let's attack who needs to be attacked, huh??

[7yearseller]

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@terese2 wrote:

Well said!

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  Geesh, are you always on here? You must not be selling at all?  How is that better than not making any money from sales on eBay even if you have to wait a bit?