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Winning bid
I won an item, and instead of me having to go through my paypal, the item got paid for automatically thru my paypal account. Came up ebay comerce. What is this?
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woodland_gnome
·1 year 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.
In Fall 2023 they made it permanent and all buyers are now required to pre-authorize automatic 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 and that is ongoing with more and more auctions and bidders becoming subject to it.
glorybells
·1 year agoeBay has enabled a setting that generally requires that buyers have a payment method set up before bidding or making an offer. This is their latest attempt to stop the huge number of non-paying “buyersâ€.