I want to pay cash

[chilliwackuk]

If I go and pick something up and pay the seller cash (and they're happy about it) is there anything ebay can do / will know? Will I as the buyer get the 6 digit code so the seller can confirm pick up? How can ebay know that I haven't paid the seller another way, in buttons or bank transfer or whatever?

[sml192]

Ebay no longer allows payment in cash.  You have to pay through eBay in order to receive the seller's address and the collection code. 

[lucy_farmer]

I'd imagine you wouldn't be given the location of the item until you have paid through the approved ebay method.....

..nor would the seller be able to give you their details without the ebay bots jumping on him and giving him a slap.

So that leaves me wondering how that works with business sellers who *have* to have their business address and details on the sale page?  hmmmm..

Ebay must have thought up some way of 'slapping' a seller who has sold an item without ebay being able to 'see' the money going through the system somehow!   or maybe I'm just cynical........👿

[myriad*seller · Accepted solution]

eBay do not provide any way for you to get the address for collection until you have paid online

Cash on collection is now banned on eBay

[chilliwackuk]

Ok thanks. Seems unbelievable that they can prevent people from paying cash in their own country for goods!

[myriad*seller]

eBay lost out on a lot of fees when buyers paid cash

So eBay now make sure all payments go through them, so they get fees for every collection transaction as well as online ones. 

[plpmr]

Adding to the advice already given -

Break the rules and pay cash [except for a vehicle] next thing you know you end up with an unpaid strike.

[lucy_farmer]

'So eBay now make sure all payments go through them, so they get fees for every collection transaction as well as online ones. '

But ebay got their fees *before* they got rid of cash on collection..the action of 'buying' it was the only way to get the collection address, so ebay took their fees from the seller anyway. As long as ebay got their fees, how the seller actually got the money didn't matter.

And now there aren't even any fees to evade for private sellers.

All seems a bit of a pointless exercise to me that will just stop some sellers selling large collection items on ebay.

Now that the 'check it over and make sure you're happy before parting with your money' option is gone, people really don't want the aggro of a buyer collecting, *then* deciding they don't like what they've collected and the seller having to pick it up or arrange and pay for return postage; of something thats large or difficult to post... which is why it will have been for  'collection' , not postage, in the first place.

Ah.... unless this is all to do with the future possibility of the fee 'structure' landing on the *buyer* not the seller?

[iswift123]

what's to stop the buyer just asking the seller?

But i get that it's now online only.
Shame it's not more widely known, or that they don't make it clearer when you list things.

I have a buyer collecting their item and I have suggested cash or Paypal, and having preferred cash I will have to go and say sorry no eBay no longer support that.

[eastern-lights]

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@lucy_farmer wrote:

But ebay got their fees *before* they got rid of cash on collection..the action of 'buying' it was the only way to get the collection address, so ebay took their fees from the seller anyway. As long as ebay got their fees, how the seller actually got the money didn't matter.

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What used to happen was, after the buyer had collected the item and paid cash, instead of marking the transaction as paid the seller would cancel the sale as if the buyer had not collected, and thus pay no fees.

[geosacha007]

I'm not willing to risk a buyer wanting to return a large item at my cost so I'm just going to move all future collection items to other selling sites.

[lucy_farmer]

'......and thus pay no fees.'

But, from private sellers at least, there *are* now no fees to collect....

[vintique*violet]

I think it is also to do with the " want" of Government introducing CBDC's which would do away with cash. This is so everything anyone purchases online or in a store is monitored and tracked and traced. 

Does anyone other than me read on proposed " legislation" on the Government website?

CBDC's- Central Bank Digital Currency would be like having vouchers - no more , no less. It is just digits on a screen with no value ( like your pound notes -  they are called Fiat currency and not backed by gold or silver for decades - so it is just like Monopoly money and not worth even the paper they are written on  )  Read up on the history of  " money" and " currency" - they are not really the same thing. 

People are working for " legal tender" as defined by the Bank of England- we are spending our time and energy for really a piece of worthless paper with a £  sign on it... it is an exchange - Time - Currency 

If that gets your " knowledge" juices flowing - further insight can be found by researching the Bills Of Exchange. 

Bank of England, Central Banks and the Bank of international Settlements. 

As a reminder - " CASH" is "legal tender"  albeit shops, companies etc can refuse to accept it. 

The road of CBDC's  will restrict everyone in their daily life on many levels - No fivers in a birthday card or £20 for help with the garden and so forth. It  is important to keep cash flowing, so if online companies refuse , such as eBay , and of course online retailers take online debit/credit payments...It is imperative we use cash as much as possible in stores to prevent the " digital age of currency."