Seller wants payment to be cleared in bank 1st (Paypal)

leo~saphira

Marty_J wrote: »

Can you stop people who are going to collect from paying with PayPal though?

I like to know this as well - as I am going to start to sell one or two big things (collection only jobbies)

also rechecked the auction - Paypal preferred is written in the auction description!

Brooker_Dave

leo~saphira wrote: »

woah hold on - then why use as paypal as a option

Because in the interests of consumer safety (and nothing whatsoever to do with ebay being greedy and wanting more out of every sale, honest, guv) ebay the owners of paypal (see "conflicts of interest") insist that paypal is added to every auction.

Hintza

leo~saphira wrote: »

also rechecked the auction - Paypal preferred is written in the auction description!

From what you say you are dealing with a new seller. Who no doubt has read about all the scams too.

Just give them a call and discuss best way forward (which should be cash on collection after you ahve of course inspected the item).

Bromley86

Marty_J wrote: »

Can you stop people who are going to collect from paying with PayPal though?

I imagine a lot of items end up "broken" before collection if the buyer insists on using PayPal.

frivolous_fay

leo~saphira wrote: »

also rechecked the auction - Paypal preferred is written in the auction description!

It's the default setting. My listings say that too... I haven't yet committed to the epic quest which is 'Finding the Setting for Turning off 'Paypal Preferred''

Floxxie

Marty_J wrote: »

Can you stop people who are going to collect from paying with PayPal though?

I put a note on my listings offering collection or courier - if the person pays by Paypal then I state that the item must be sent by courier to satisfy Paypal rules (i.e. to protect me from buyer claiming not to have received the item on collection).

There was a thread discussing the possibility of eBay softening the rules on Paypal and collection somewhere on here...

Not too sure what the answer to the question is though? Can the seller send the item by trackable means to the OP?

Floxxie

tattycath

If you have paid by paypal and the funds aren't already in your account (as you said the credit card can take the hit), this paypal transaction will show up to the seller as an e-cheque and they can take up to 10 days to clear into the sellers paypal account. Therefore the payment will not be cleared within three days, and sometimes echeques don't clear (when there are insufficient funds etc) and if goods have been released the seller is effectively stuffed at this point.
So i think the seller is probably covering himself to make sure the e-cheque will clear.= before goods are released. When we get paid by e-cheque we wait for them to clear before goods are released.
As far as the buyer is aware they have paid by paypal and that is it-but if the funds are not already in the buyers paypal account it's an e-cheque.
hth

Floxxie

Isn't the buyer aware at all that it is an e-cheque? I had a buyer who told me that he was aware that the e-cheque would take a while to clear (and it certainly did!) but he was a new buyer so just wondered if he had had notification from Paypal?

frivolous_fay

If it's coming from a credit card, it won't be an echeque.