IMPORTANT- managed payments

soolin

charlies_mum said:

I am ‘on the list’ but not switched on yet.     I read that only the USA and a couple of European countries have signed up, so how do buyers in other countries pay ?

That’s one of the other issues being raised, apparently once on managed payments only people from countries that are already using managed payments can pay. For a time yesterday sellers on managed payments couldn’t sell using GSP either. 

charlies_mum

Sounds like another well thought through eBay plan.    

goodfella66

I've been switched over a week ago. I can confirm that there doesn't appear to be any problems with receiving payments from countries all over the world. I saw the forum comments about international sales but I think it was just scaremongering based on assumptions due to Ebay's inability to communicate properly.
The only thing I can say, which can be a bit of a pain, is there appears to be a couple of minutes delay for a buyer's payment to clear and it shows as "pending" during that time. I've had a few buyer's asking "what's going on" etc so you have to take time out to reply because Ebay can't be bothered to put a note on the page when the customer is paying.
Apart from the depositing payments bit (and increased fees for lower priced items), there doesn't seem to be much difference. One plus is that you get all your fees back when processing a refund whereas Paypal used to withhold all the fees.

Rantband

AFAIK Ebay like PayPal keep 30p per transaction,even after a refund

goodfella66

Rantband said:

AFAIK Ebay like PayPal keep 30p per transaction,even after a refund

They keep the 36p transaction fee but all the selling fees are refunded. Paypal keep the whole lot nowadays.

Brywalker

goodfella66 said:

Rantband said:

AFAIK Ebay like PayPal keep 30p per transaction,even after a refund

They keep the 36p transaction fee but all the selling fees are refunded. Paypal keep the whole lot nowadays.

I did a refund this morning and I got all of my Paypal fees back.

soolin

Brywalker said:

goodfella66 said:

Rantband said:

AFAIK Ebay like PayPal keep 30p per transaction,even after a refund

They keep the 36p transaction fee but all the selling fees are refunded. Paypal keep the whole lot nowadays.

I did a refund this morning and I got all of my Paypal fees back.

It does show oddly and all paypal payments are now refunded net. On my last one it showed the payment, let's say £10 less 85p fees so I got £9.15, when I refunded it showed the buyer getting £10 and the £9.15 being refunded. However there was a separate transaction showing the 85 p charge as that a charge to me and nothing to do with buyer. 

goodfella66

It maybe just for commercial transactions. Since earlier in the year they have been keeping all mine.
https://tamebay.com/2020/01/paypal-to-keep-fees-from-refunds-even-for-fraudulent-transactions.html

goodfella66

frederick10WR said:

charlies_mum said:

I am ‘on the list’ but not switched on yet.     I read that only the USA and a couple of European countries have signed up, so how do buyers in other countries pay ?

And I'm curious about it as well, especially when we talk about travelling all around the world.

I think if you list on the UK website and list worldwide shipping it's not a problem (I've shipped to Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, Croatia and many more under the new managed payment system with no problems). I think the problem occurs if you list the items on the individual countries sites separately.

soolin

I know the policy statement uses the word commercial transactions which some have suggested means business accounts only, but here is what paypal consider a commercial transaction :

When you buy or sell goods or services, make any other commercial type of transaction, send or receive a charity donation or receive a payment when you “request money” using PayPal, we call that a “commercial transaction”:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees

The fees are not refunded in any paypal account , they just show the retained fees in a strange way.