Although it doesn't help with my current problem, I have found the way forward for future listings from the following advice in the EBay community: "norseway53 wrote: Here's the policy:- http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html Yep and here is the important part.... Additional information Sellers who state in their listing that they accept certain payment methods must not selectively offer those payment methods to buyers or discourage buyers from using those payment methods. This means that sellers must always accept payment from buyers through the payment methods they have selected in their Payment Details section of their listing, including PayPal, and must not act in any way to discourage buyers from paying by these methods. For example, you may not insist that a buyer pay a surcharge, if paying through a certain payment method. Sellers aren't allowed to make statements like: 'Contact us for payment information.' 'Contact us for other payment methods.' 'Contact us for your preferred payment method.' 'I accept PayPal but do not accept credit card payments through PayPal' 'I only accept PayPal if the bid amount is greater than £15' 'I don't accept electronic cheques or e-cheques through PayPal' There's only one exception: Sellers who offer payment on collection may include the following statement in their listings: 'Contact me for payment methods for paying on collection.' Note that last section that I have put in blue font then have a look at the listing page, click on the Postage And Payments Tab and at the bottom of that section you will see that ebay has put: Collect in person You can contact your seller to arrange to pay for and collect your item. The upshot is that while ebay would prefer that you only accept paypal on all transactions they do allow an exception on items that are listed as Payment on collection. The 'Collect in person' section clearly says that the buyer may contact the seller to arrange to the method of payment and when and where to collect thier item. This would at the very least involve the exchange to telephone numbers using the ebay messaging system. Provided you follow these policys to the letter then there is no breach of any ebay rules".
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