Hi guys ... I'm late to this party but only learned about Ebay prohibiting cash on collection today having hit the brick wall a couple of times in the past week or so.
After 25 years that probably spells the end of me doing anything on Ebay, having given up seller back when they forced the Ebay payment system on us.
I think what makes me the most sick about it is the dishonest language Ebay uses ... oh, it's all about "our safety". Is it hell, it's all about their profits but, seriously, what the problem that needed fixed? Like hell if I am going to give them permission to take whatever they want and when out of my account.
This, like so many of the changes, may work for mass consumer items but it doesn't, as other have pointed out, work for the foundations of where they started their business, i.e. on the rare, eclectic, vintage, one off, kind of items for which they've never even ever offered proper seller protection.
I think what they need to do is hive off the junk commercial sellers, i.e. the Chinese etc, onto a separate website with different rules; and operate a "classic Ebay" for the rest of we hobbyists and collectors.
The unstated downside is that it's also seeding distrusts and divisions amongst the "community" ... people afraid to touch cash as if it's blighted by the plague.
Have the scabs and scammers really spoilt it for all of us? Or is it just more gouging for penny on the pound profits?
Bottomline is ... I don't trust Ebay and its customer disservice, far more than I didn't trust other members.
And, yes, it is discrimination against individuals who, for whatever reason, have no desire to clamber onto the hamster wheel of every upgrading smart phones and IT.
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