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Automatic payment when an offer is received?
I made an offer on an item and once the offer was accepted, they charged my Paypal. WHAT?!?
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I made an offer on an item and once the offer was accepted, they charged my Paypal. WHAT?!?
rock.star
·2 years agoYes offers now require a payment source that will be charged if the offer is accepted.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoeBay had been "experimenting" with requiring pre-authorization of payment for Best Offers for over a year and a half (started prior to Halloween 2021), adding more and more users into the test group required to do so (sellers can opt their listings out of it; buyers cannot opt out). Too many users were making offers and then not paying when it was accepted, and too many of those were scammers who would try to get the seller to text or email them to get their number/email address to send fake payment messages to.
They have in Fall 2023 officially made it permanent and all buyers are now required to pre-authorize payment for Best Offers they make on listings for sellers who have not opted out of the program. You authorized the payment (and could have changed the shipping address and payment source from your defaults) on the confirmation screen when you made the offer.
They started trying it out on auction bids in Spring or early Summer 2023 but that seems to have ended. They have also started experimenting with requiring immediate payment for accepting offers or counteroffers from sellers as of Spring 2024.