@topeka_143
It's not clear from what you've written whether or not you have previously agreed to a pre-authorised payment or whether this is your first encounter with it, but you are aware that once you agree to pre-authorised payment that becomes your default method of payment for all future transactions on which the option is enabled, aren't you?
Although payment by eBay balance is not currently supported in pre-payment authorisation (it may be in the future - I have no idea) once you have agreed to it and selected a method of payment that's it for every future listing on which pre-payment is required - the payment will always be taken using the same, stored, payment method.
Although it is (apparently) possible to remove your selected payment method from the pre-payment process it's a little convoluted and not straightforward. I can't remember the steps required but there have been threads on that subject so you'd have to search for them.
Possibly the main thing you need to know, if you don't already, is that once opted in to pre-payment a number of options currently available to a buyer become unavailable. Combined postage and Click&Collect spring to mind but there are several others which have been mentioned in previous threads. Again, you'd need to search for them if you wanted more info.
If you have not already signed up for pre-payment I really would strongly suggest you find out all the pros and cons before doing so as once in not only do you lose some of the options currently available to buyers but it's also aa bit of a faff extracting yourself from the process.
Pre-payment authoriseation might be dressed up by eBay to make it look all cosy and convenient but, as with most things on eBay, you really need to have a good dig around to find out what you're actually letting yourself in for before agreeing to anything.
