PayPal- removing payment option on eBay listing?

go_cat

I am just in the process of listing on eBay, and now you can remove PayPal as a payment option just leaving bankers draft or postal order.

I wasn't aware that PayPal had changed their ruling, and that you have to offer it, but you didn't used to be able de select PayPal. Does anyone have any ideas ?

jeffuk

As far as I'm aware you still have to offer PP as an option (except cars/motorcycles/property), where did you read otherwise?

alykatz

how odd,just tried to list something and it didnt give me an option to remove pp.
Probably just a glitch.

soolin

eBay have not changed the rules , it is probably a glitch or a misunderstanding on behalf of the OP.

go_cat

soolin wrote: »

eBay have not changed the rules , it is probably a glitch or a misunderstanding on behalf of the OP.

Not a misunderstanding. you can definitely untick the PayPal option, however obviously a glitch

Thanks for all the comments

porto_bello

go_cat wrote: »

Not a misunderstanding. you can definitely untick the PayPal option, however obviously a glitch

Thanks for all the comments

Sorry, I think you've misread that somewhere. As Jeff pointed out, you can only avoid offering Paypal for very specific items, notably property and vehicles. For virtually everything else, you have to offer Paypal as a form of payment.

catmiaow

Not accepting pp for my collection

theonlywayisup

porto_bello wrote: »

Sorry, I think you've misread that somewhere. As Jeff pointed out, you can only avoid offering Paypal for very specific items, notably property and vehicles. For virtually everything else, you have to offer Paypal as a form of payment.

catmiaow wrote: »

Not accepting pp for my collection

Porto said you have to offer Paypal, what is that to do with your collection?

theclonetrooper

catmiaow wrote: »

Not accepting pp for my collection

When I list on ebay the first thing on my listing is
"PAYPAL & POSTAGE OR CASH ON COLLECTION ONLY", it is then pretty self explanatory to the bidder that this is one of the terms of my auction, (I do accept PayPal by the way).
Recently I sold a Lego set and the winning bidder paid with PayPal minus the £8 odd quid postal charge then messaged me to say he would come and collect the Lego set as it was a birthday present for his 8 year old boy.

I sent the message back that I was not prepared to do this as it was not what my listing stated, I also checked how far away he lived via the RAC route finder and to "pick-up" the £40.00 Lego set was a 300 mile round trip for him, so I refunded his PayPal payment and said if he was picking up the Lego he could bring the cash as what he wanted to do was against ebay's buyer & seller protection terms i.e. he could pick up the Lego and as soon as he gets home do a PayPal charge back or open a item not received case and as I did not have any proof of delivery, I would lose my money & Lego.

I then get a message back stating how bad a seller I was, how rude I was & he would never buy anything from and I quote "someone like you", so I messaged him back and asked him to explain how I was a bad seller with over 10 years on ebay & 100% positive feedback of over 1100. Needless to say I didn't get a reply.
Sorry to go off the thread a bit & ramble on

soolin

theclonetrooper wrote: »

When I list on ebay the first thing on my listing is
"PAYPAL & POSTAGE OR CASH ON COLLECTION ONLY", it is then pretty self explanatory to the bidder that this is one of the terms of my auction, (I do accept PayPal by the way).
Recently I sold a Lego set and the winning bidder paid with PayPal minus the £8 odd quid postal charge then messaged me to say he would come and collect the Lego set as it was a birthday present for his 8 year old boy.

I sent the message back that I was not prepared to do this as it was not what my listing stated, I also checked how far away he lived via the RAC route finder and to "pick-up" the £40.00 Lego set was a 300 mile round trip for him, so I refunded his PayPal payment and said if he was picking up the Lego he could bring the cash as what he wanted to do was against ebay's buyer & seller protection terms i.e. he could pick up the Lego and as soon as he gets home do a PayPal charge back or open a item not received case and as I did not have any proof of delivery, I would lose my money & Lego.

I then get a message back stating how bad a seller I was, how rude I was & he would never buy anything from and I quote "someone like you", so I messaged him back and asked him to explain how I was a bad seller with over 10 years on ebay & 100% positive feedback of over 1100. Needless to say I didn't get a reply.
Sorry to go off the thread a bit & ramble on

Except of course the default still shows as 'paypal accepted' and any buyer going through checkout, even to get your address will see the paypal as the default payment method.

I would watch your stars and fees as well, your buyer has cost you your FVFs and can leave you whatever feedback and stars he chooses and can also make a non performing seller complaint against you.

Much better to understand the risks *and* make sure you have your invoices set to charge the postage if they pay by paypal and make surwe they cannot be changed by buyer. Obviously that doesn't work if you show only collection , but as long as you realise you can't win if buyer refuses to repay and leaves bad feedback you will be fine.

RFW

theclonetrooper wrote: »

Wh
I sent the message back that I was not prepared to do this as it was not what my listing stated, I also checked how far away he lived via the RAC route finder and to "pick-up" the £40.00 Lego set was a 300 mile round trip for him, so I refunded his PayPal payment and said if he was picking up the Lego he could bring the cash as what he wanted to do was against ebay's buyer & seller protection terms i.e. he could pick up the Lego and as soon as he gets home do a PayPal charge back or open a item not received case and as I did not have any proof of delivery, I would lose my money & Lego.

I think telling the buyer that he might turn into a conman might have put his back up. I would have told the buyer before refunding that buyer and seller protection is invalid on paying with Paypal, so he can either pay by Paypal and have delivered or bring cash on collection. As Soolin points out you do run risks doing it like that, but in my experience buyers don't mind bringing cash as long as you don't ask for it in a negative way.