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Buying issue
I have noticed that now when I try to make an offer it asks me for my credit card information before I can even make the offer. has anyone noticed this as well? Is it now eBay or the seller that has put this in place?
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woodland_gnome
·3 years agoeBay has been "experimenting" with requiring pre-authorization of payment for Best Offers for over a year and a half, 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 once they are assigned). 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.
Not sure whether or not they have officially made it permanent yet or it continues "experimentally." They have recently started trying it out on auction bids.