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Ebay won't let me bid on an item unless I give them control of my forms of payment.
I do not feel comfortable giving ebay control of my payments. I have never had an issue paying. Why do I have to give ebay the control of it?
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woodland_gnome
·3 years agoBecause if you don't give the information (which you would have to do when you go to pay anyway) and authorize eBay to pay if you win, you won't be able to bid on that item (or any listings from that seller).
eBay 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.