Ebay dump American Express for payments

retiredbanker1

What are the chances that before the date a deal will be agreed between both sides? Not so much for UK members but I would think AMEX has a larger profile in the U.S.

steven141

NoodleDoodleMan said:

steven141 said:

I can see this happening more and more. I have an American Express Credit card but the cashback is 0.5% cashback. 

I have just not long taken out a Santander Edge Credit Card 2% cashback so I will mainly be using that and with Chase 1% on debit card spending I can’t see me using the American Express card much.

Did Chase not recently announce that they are stopping the 1% cashback on their current account in favour of better interest rates on the Saver account, effective in respect of the former from 5th August 2024 ?

https://becleverwithyourcash.com/chase-boosts-savings-to-5-1-again/

Suits me TBH - having to temporarily pay in £1500 monthly to qualify for cashback was a pain in the neck.

It’s only the interest in the current account that is stopping. The 1% cashback continues until the expiry date of the offer. 

Desmond_Hume said:

steven141 said:

I can see this happening more and more. I have an American Express Credit card but the cashback is 0.5% cashback. 

I have just not long taken out a Santander Edge Credit Card 2% cashback so I will mainly be using that and with Chase 1% on debit card spending I can’t see me using the American Express card much.

That’s a different issue though. The OP is on about Amex being ditched by eBay.  You’re talking about personally ditching Amex as you’re getting something better elsewhere. The Santander has a limit on CB, no? As does Chase?

That’s true. I was just meaning that it was another reason not to use American Express for some people.

DullGreyGuy said:

This smells like the time Amazon said it was going to stop accepting Visa and just used the PR as a negotiating as they subsequently came to an agreement 

It could be that they are negotiating. Look what happened with Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest switching from using Visa to Mastercard debit then they suddenly have brought in some Visa cards again. 

NoodleDoodleMan

"It’s only the interest in the current account that is stopping. The 1% cashback continues until the expiry date of the offer."

Well spotted.

There isn't enough money going through my Chase current account to make either benefit significant.

ripongrammargirl

EBay are so greedy- they keep adding fees to their customers’ bills because they are now getting charged for some ridiculous thing but decided that we need to pay their bills for them, so their profits increase but they give you nothing in return. They don’t follow their own policies about banning con sellers (and I’ve had a run of those in the last few weeks) and make you jump through hoops to get your money back. Now they have stopped us using AMEX directly and to further add insult to injury now nectar points can only be earned by going through nectar e- shops direct to eBay and not via a cashback site that used to pay anything up to 3% on transactions!!!
AMEX is my only method of payment as “living” on disability benefits means I can’t get any credit (although disability is not going away, unlike the potential to lose a job at any point!) so have no other means of paying for stuff. AMEX is just hardly accepted at all in the UK but is treated like good-dust in USA. It’s just crazy. So now using AMEX via PayPal only means that £100+ spend is not covered under section 75. Why is the UK such a joke and how have eBay got the nerve to charge customers to pay THEIR bills but take
away our chance of purchasing things because they threw toys out of the pram, stamped their foot, stuck out their bottom lip and said “we’re not allowing customers to use AMEX directly any more?”
This really is turning into discrimination for a lot of people and especially those that only have an AMEX card with zero chance of getting any other due to further discrimination, due to being disabled/old etc from credit scores etc.

WillPS

ripongrammargirl said:

EBay are so greedy- they keep adding fees to their customers’ bills because they are now getting charged for some ridiculous thing but decided that we need to pay their bills for them, so their profits increase but they give you nothing in return. They don’t follow their own policies about banning con sellers (and I’ve had a run of those in the last few weeks) and make you jump through hoops to get your money back. Now they have stopped us using AMEX directly and to further add insult to injury now nectar points can only be earned by going through nectar e- shops direct to eBay and not via a cashback site that used to pay anything up to 3% on transactions!!!
AMEX is my only method of payment as “living” on disability benefits means I can’t get any credit (although disability is not going away, unlike the potential to lose a job at any point!) so have no other means of paying for stuff. AMEX is just hardly accepted at all in the UK but is treated like good-dust in USA. It’s just crazy. So now using AMEX via PayPal only means that £100+ spend is not covered under section 75. Why is the UK such a joke and how have eBay got the nerve to charge customers to pay THEIR bills but take
away our chance of purchasing things because they threw toys out of the pram, stamped their foot, stuck out their bottom lip and said “we’re not allowing customers to use AMEX directly any more?”
This really is turning into discrimination for a lot of people and especially those that only have an AMEX card with zero chance of getting any other due to further discrimination, due to being disabled/old etc from credit scores etc.

Wow, real unexpected leap at the end there...

I don't really know where to start.

• You can still use your Amex on ebay, you just need to do it via PayPal.
• The change is international - Amex cannot be used on Ebay USA or any other local version (except via PayPal/Venmo).
• Amex acceptance is overall increasing in the UK as well as internationally. Ebay is going against the grain on this.

gbhxu

ripongrammargirl said:

EBay are so greedy- they keep adding fees to their customers’ bills because they are now getting charged for some ridiculous thing but decided that we need to pay their bills for them, so their profits increase but they give you nothing in return. They don’t follow their own policies about banning con sellers (and I’ve had a run of those in the last few weeks) and make you jump through hoops to get your money back. Now they have stopped us using AMEX directly and to further add insult to injury now nectar points can only be earned by going through nectar e- shops direct to eBay and not via a cashback site that used to pay anything up to 3% on transactions!!!
AMEX is my only method of payment as “living” on disability benefits means I can’t get any credit (although disability is not going away, unlike the potential to lose a job at any point!) so have no other means of paying for stuff. AMEX is just hardly accepted at all in the UK but is treated like good-dust in USA. It’s just crazy. So now using AMEX via PayPal only means that £100+ spend is not covered under section 75. Why is the UK such a joke and how have eBay got the nerve to charge customers to pay THEIR bills but take
away our chance of purchasing things because they threw toys out of the pram, stamped their foot, stuck out their bottom lip and said “we’re not allowing customers to use AMEX directly any more?”
This really is turning into discrimination for a lot of people and especially those that only have an AMEX card with zero chance of getting any other due to further discrimination, due to being disabled/old etc from credit scores etc.

I'm on ESA and PIP.

Got accepted for an Amazon Barclaycard last week and got my card today.

Previously got accepted for the old New Day Amazon Mastercard.