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I won a bid and my PayPal automatically paid , I wish to manually pay , I didn’t have to before . How do I fix that.
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I won a bid and my PayPal automatically paid , I wish to manually pay , I didn’t have to before . How do I fix that.
eburtonlab
Mentor2 years agoIf you mean that when you check out of eBay and select PayPal, you are not able to choose a specific payment method in your PayPal wallet but one is selected for you, in that case go to your eBay Payments page in your eBay account and delete the entry for PayPal that appears there.
https://ppcapp.ebay.com/myppc/wallet/list
The next time you check out on eBay and choose PayPal, you should be sent to your PayPal wallet page and given a chance to pick a specific payment method.
woodland_gnome
·2 years agoYou don't, except by not using Best Offer, or only using it on items where the seller has opted out (default is in and many sellers aren't aware of the setting) of requiring pre-authorization of automatic payment for Best Offers.
Allowing buyers to opt out of pre-authorization of automatic payment when they make an offer would defeat the purpose of the program (which is NOT to make checkout "smoother" or whatever else the PR types are trying to spin it as this week).
eBay 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 which some do who depend on attracting buyers by offering a discount for combined shipping). 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. They started trying it out on auction bids (with a smaller group of buyers that is growing) in Spring or early Summer 2023 but that seem to have been discontinued. They are also now (Spring 2024 update) experimenting with requiring immediate payment to accept an offer or counteroffer from the seller.
You can try to find a seller who opted his/her listings out of the pre-authorization requirement for offers. Unless s/he says s/he has in the item description you'd need to actually try to make an offer and if it goes through without you having to add or confirm (with links to edit) your shipping address and payment method then s/he has opted out.