13-06-2021 2:15 PM
So now ebay holds back MY payments, money paid to me for items sold. That's a good scam if you can get away with it. I am not convinced that I should allow ebay to access my bank account to the extent they require. No other individual or organisation has the level of access which ebay asks, in fact no other has ever even requested such full access.
I started using ebay many years ago as a private seller and progressed to an ebay shop, I eventually gave that up due to ebay inteference and the introduction of ever more suffocating restrictions on sellers while buyers were completely at liberty to do as they pleased.
A lot of ebayers I have spoken to are no longer going to sell on ebay and now I am afraid it may be time to use my account for the occasional purchase only (although I mostly buy off Amazon these days as the service is much better, and with less BS).
I know this will not bother ebay as they no longer care about the small volume sellers who made the site what it was . Now they are only interested in the many huge, usually Chinese warehouses who despite large numbers of monthly negative feedback are still lauded with top seller ratings on account of the positive feedback received for the many thousands of small, cheap items they sell each month.
Why would ebay care when they are raking in an even bigger percentage of each sale?
Yes @thomakin1 - that is called a variable direct debit and is not at all unusual. HMRC does that with me and takes the amount that [they calculate] I owe.
EBay will simply take its 12.8%! I think the way they do it is to remove it from your payment for anything you sell so that if you sell £10 they pay you £8.88 odd [if maths prevails].
I am afraid I do not see the underlying problem. If we like eBay and believe that they are a reputable organisation [and if we did not we would not stay??] then where's the difficulty?
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