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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2021 11:15:56 GMT -8
Hi folks--
I've been receiving multiple messages from Ebay that effective 5/28, a seller will not be able to list new items for sale without updating one's personal account information to provide Ebay with direct access to your bank accounts.
I trusted Paypal, for whatever reason, and they never let me down.
Since I know Ebay has already been hacked in the past, I am declining to "update" my bank account information.
That means the auctions I have going live this week will be my last Ebay auctions ever. I have a local train store that will gladly sell items for me, but there's no guarantee of how long it will take, or if the items ever will sell.
That also means I'll be much more careful of anything I buy in the future. I just received an MTH Big Boy, for instance, that runs well--in a straight line--and not on even 32" radius curves. It is light in weight on the front of the rear drivers; they want to lift and derail on curves...off to the spring open house at the local train store it goes.
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Post by drsvelte on May 23, 2021 14:08:24 GMT -8
Actually, eBay initiated this practice sometime in 2020. It seems they have a rolling enforcement window - I was kicked off in January. Since I have no LHSs, that sales option is not available. I think I will eventually set up a separate bank account just for the purpose of buying/selling on eBay.
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Post by riogrande on May 23, 2021 14:55:36 GMT -8
What drsvelte said. I imagine eBay won't miss the small time sellers.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2021 17:05:45 GMT -8
Hello Jim--
I suspect that you are indeed correct, and maybe I've been somehow fortunate to skate by under the radar so far.
My lifetime Ebay sales under two different accounts (I closed the first one at a point of frustration) easily number $50k in model trains, just not much in the last couple years...
I'm not doing any separate bank accounts; I'll just keep and run whatever I'm left with.
One might have thought that a whole lot of little sellers like me would actually add up to some "real money" for Ebay, but apparently we are just too small for them to care, as they have continued to put policies in place that can be rather frustrating for the "little guy" to have to deal with.
My last auctions are up and running now and are actually discouraging in that only one item so far will sell.
Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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Post by Artur on May 29, 2021 9:26:34 GMT -8
They keep giving me new deadlines, May 30th is the next one. I’m not going to update my info with eBay.
You can continue to make purchases with PayPal.
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Post by bnsf971 on May 30, 2021 2:58:12 GMT -8
A couple of months ago, I bought an Atlas engine on Ebay. The seller hadn’t provided his banking info to Ebay, and my purchase got caught in a loop of “complete your purchase”, followed by “your payment did not go through, please complete your purchase”. After 30 times (and I still have the emails from Ebay), I finally gave up, at which time the seller opened a non-payment claim against me. I tried 5 more times to pay, then ai finally got Ebay to remove the claim against me. The seller still has the same items for sale, not one has sold.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 8:27:44 GMT -8
bnsf971--
So sorry to hear of that experience! Wow. I haven't experienced that. Most people still have Paypal, so that has not been an issue, and Paypal has been secure...
The latest nastygram said that Ebay would cancel my auctions if I don't give them my bank information. I changed all my auctions except the one with bids to be only 5 day auctions so that I could get them done. Two items sold, so I guess I'm happy with that, and I have just one final auction ending tonight that has a bid.
After that I will only buy through Ebay, not ever sell again.
I understand they want transactions to be simple for buyers, but they created Paypal, and now they want one to deal directly with ebay instead. Since ebay has been hacked in the past, I just don't want to give them that information.
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Post by dawidl on Oct 28, 2021 1:43:45 GMT -8
I understand your suspicious feeling about eBay. That's a problem because their security system isn't great and scammers can easily get access to your info. Probably you should change the platform and forget about eBay. Anyway, I don't really think that other platforms are any better today because opening a dispute at Aliexpress, for example, can be a very long journey, haha. I ordered some automatic parts from Aliexpress last month, and used the tracking china post system to follow my order. It arrived at time, no problems with it, but the seller forgot to add one more item there. I opened a dispute and trying to convince him to send this item for free. |
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Post by sd40dash2 on Oct 28, 2021 3:15:22 GMT -8
^ LOL who paid you to register here and write that? A competing platform, no doubt?  |
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Post by scl1234 on Nov 7, 2021 5:28:21 GMT -8
Latest is eBay has modified the listing catagories (there no longer is an "HO Scale" main catagory), so that every time you enter a new search string in the "Model Railroads & Trains" category, you must check the HO option on the left-hand side to see HO only. Solution: "HO" now appears in each search string...or if you're desperate (I'm not), you'll waste ~20 min. looking through a mix of scales for the item you're after.
Thanks eBay, for trying just a little harder to push my purchasing business elsewhere.
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