@kcchie_20 wrote:How come every time I try to bid on a item now a screen pops up telling me I have to put in a credit card or have to have a PayPal account I don’t have a PayPal account and i only use eBay cards instead of my credit cards it makes it impossible to bid on any auctions only do buy it how’s how many kids are going to get eBay cards for Christmas and not be able to use them it doesn’t make any sense
You still need to put in a credit card or a PayPal account @kcchie_20 for your default payment method but they won't be charged
because you will also put in that gift card with enough balance to cover your entire bid amount. If you win, eBay will automatically take the payment from your gift card, and if that's not enough then from your default payment method.
While I do consider you to be one of the more informed members on this board, your reply to this topic is way out of date. Yes ebay started out opting some buyers into the automatic payments, then opted all of us into it, but they also added two new Buyer Requirements to the existing ones
Buyer Payment Requirements
and pre-checked them opting sellers into Automatic Payments without their knowledge.
The last announcement concerning automatic payments which carefully avoids mentioning this had happened, was posted in the 6/28/23 Summer Seller Update. It was not specifically mentioned in the Spring Update announcement either even though they had already opted sellers into automatic payments prior to the Spring Update. They keep calling it; "More seller resources for resolving issues with unpaid items".
