ebay to only accept PayPal in future

inatomato

I found this while reading my news feeds this morning. It looks as if, in light of Google preparing a global payment system, ebay will now only be accepting (drum roll) - PayPal - as a "payment processor". This link takes you to the Google Rumours page, with links to ebay user forums, and to the policy itself. Just a FYI for all you Nochex users out there.

bleugh

heh, i'll be leaving ebay when this happens :-)

I WILL NOT accept paypal for large transactions, FULL STOP,
i cap 'em around £30 or so, anything else is bank transfer / cheque / nochex

if people dont like that, then dont buy from me, i'm the one with 540 excellent feedbacks, i'll negotiate the transaction how I want,

lyniced

I prefer Paypal anyway - its less messy and very quick. I know some ebayers have had difficulties with PayPal I have not found a problem with them.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Note the page where this "information" is found is the Google Rumours page. I'd take it with a pinch of salt at this stage. With Paypal fees so high, and problems recently with trying to process non-fee-paying Paypal transactions, I suspect members would defect to other auctions sites in droves if this were true. I'm sure they wouldn't attempt such a radical move without at least doing plenty of market research first.

Tojo_Ralph

Ain't never going to happen, just as there will never be a strict registration process.

mcwarre

Never assume; it makes an !!!!!! out of u and me

soolin

Last week I posted about changes to the payments methods of ebay.com which were not rumours but fact. Under those US rules no online payments apart from paypal would be allowed, however, all other forms of payment would still be acceptable.

So apart from nochex users, even if the new US rules migrated to ebay.uk no one would really notice the difference.

EDIT: There was one other payment method change and that was that US sellers will not be able to solicit for cash, but could accept cash if a buyer asked.

Soo

pin

What about online bank transfer? Is that not an online payment?

Also fair enough hardly anyone uses Nochex now, but at least the option was there.

One other question, has / does anyone use Eggpay for ebay transactions?

JoseChungsDoomsday

theres other options... nat west and yahoo have payment transfers and im sure a few others have them planned (maybe hbos?), they just need to stream line their processes to be more accessible like paypal

soolin

At the moment any form of online payments are acceptable on ebay.co.uk and there is no certainty that the US rules will ever migrate to the Uk and stop that.

The real problem is that whilst sellers try to wriggle out of their responsibility to buyers by refusing to refund for lost parcels (see some of the other threads on here) then buyers will choose to pay by paypal for the protection it offers.

Sellers can offer whatever payments they like, but buyers will always want to use the safest method.

Soo

mcwarre

soolin wrote:

buyers will choose to pay by paypal for the protection it offers.

Soo,

Sorry but that is a rather naive statement as you should know. Maybe it should have stated "buyers will choose to pay by paypal for the perceived protection it offers"

And, no, I am not overtly anti-paypal but I have had problems on at least 3 out of approx 100 transactions where I lost money (even though they found in my favour).