Anyone else seeing this?
Was editing before scheduling and saw this:
and then this
Something new or a test.
anybody else seeing this?
33 comments
Was editing before scheduling and saw this:
and then this
Something new or a test.
anybody else seeing this?
evry1nositswindy
·2 years ago@my-cottage-books-and-antiques I looked at the listing. Local pick up was not added. I only see the usual payment types. I put it in my cart and only saw combined shipping mentioned. I did not go to the payment page. So I'm going with glitch. Nice test!
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years agoThanks. Hopefully eBay will confirm soon
valueaddedresource
·2 years agoMay be worth noting here that eBay actually got rid of the cash on pick up option all together in Germany in September 2023 - they can still offer local pick up, but the payment has to go through the standard eBay payment processing.
The main reason provided for that change was...payments processed through eBay are more secure.
evry1nositswindy
·2 years ago@steve_stuff Also know that anything with a payment accepted outside of eBay checkout is not eligible for the 30 day MBG.
frecklesfinery88
·2 years agoBetween this new change and the constant "send offer" when listing new items, eBay is becoming pickers paradise. We love selling on eBay, we take great pride in what we do. But, this new change & the postal issues. Sellers are truly bargain hunting most of the time. This is not going to help sellers in my honest opinion. Sure would have like to known.
luckythewinner
·2 years agoBetween this new change and the constant "send offer" when listing new items, eBay is becoming pickers paradise.
IMHO eBay has always been a place for pickers and bargain hunters. I think that is what has been drawing buyers here from the very start. But that aside, I fail to see how a bug in the listing form would affect that.
rockyroadtradingpost
·2 years agoI've been seeing it over the past day or two.
I was wondering why there was no announcement.
trip98
·2 years agoInteresting allowing other payment options, but FVF will stay the same. When Ebay rolled out their own payment system (that was combined with FVF) they made a big deal about being cheaper than Paypal fees, but is was not cheaper than taking a cash payment. Why not allow more payment options when Ebay's FVF still includes the payment processing fee even when no payment processing was actually done.
stainlessenginecovers
·2 years agoI'll bet this is an 'accidental' blanket-across-the-board thing when it was ONLY supposed to be in those 'few categories'......
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@stainlessenginecovers That's my guess too. A glitch with the form. But....that's just a guess. Hopefully @devon@ebay will be able to clarify.
As a test, I chose check and money order, which automatically removed my "checked" immediate payment in the listing form. I went ahead and listed a book with these options checked. Looking at the actual live listing, there is NOTHING to indicate that I will accept checks or money orders....payment methods are the usual PayPal, GPay, credit card icons. I can't actually go to check out for my own item, so I don't know if the buyer is shown the options there.
So...like I said, I agree: glitch is my guess...
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years agoWell, OK then LOL.
I went in to the listing to revise it, and it had reverted back to immediate payment and the check/money order option was still there, but unchecked (I KNOW I checked them)
So, apparently, even if you tell the listing form you want to do this, it is apparently ignoring your choice when your item is actually listed.
I'm taking down the listing at this point.
redmodelt
·2 years agoWhich book is it?
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@redmodelt Sorry, I took it down. I had put it up just to test things.
reallynicestamps
·2 years agoOh dear Ghu, NO!
The best decision eBay ever made was to adopt BillPoint circa the turn of the millennium.
Then the somewhat smoother Paypal was brought in.
And now Managed Payments, which seems to be being used to clear out deadwood and stop scammers, in addition to being more transparent and slightly cheaper than PP.
Online payment for online purchases.
dirk12955
·2 years agoMaybe they'll bring back Pro-Pay
readabouthorses
·2 years agoOh my! BillPoint still owes me $4.00 from 2001. I was forced to sign up for it to participate in a fundraiser eBay was doing for 9-11 and we were promised we would be refunded the shipping costs. I never got it. That was the only time I ever used BillPoint again.
wilsonharborsales
·2 years agoInteresting.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@steve_stuff @devon@ebay
I saw this option to accept check, money order or cash on pickup while creating a listing for a BOOK today. So definitely not one of the previously designated categories @dhbookds was referring to. I selected "check" and a pop up advised me that "immediate payment" would be removed if I chose it. (I then unchecked it)
But @devon@ebay , can you explain what is going on here? If this is an actual policy change, it's a pretty significant one, and certainly merits an Announcement. And follow up questions: how does this impact my stated handling time? What about ebay Seller Protection and Money Back Guarantee?
evry1nositswindy
·2 years ago@my-cottage-books-and-antiques I too was listing a book. We're going backwards.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@evry1nositswindy Well, then come on down...to play another round of the fast-paced, fun-filled ebay Guessing Game---"Glitch, Test or New?" where are contestants---average , every day ebay sellers---try to guess what is going on with the platform's latest unannounced changes!
(Hmmm, now that I think of it---maybe ebay should give away ebay swag (or better yet, fee credits) to the first person to guess correctly)
I'm going with "Glitch".
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@evry1nositswindy I just relisted the "test" book (Ben and Me, Little Golden Book, overpriced so it does not sell).
I chose all three of the options (check, M/O, cash on local pickup) but I don't see any indication that my listing actually incorporated those choices into the listing when it went live (nor was there any notice before it went live that there was any problem with the listing.
If you get a chance, take a look at it...maybe others are seeing something different?
And maybe try putting it in your cart to see if ebay provides a choice of check etc once it is in the cart?
I'll probably take the listing down later tonight.
devon@ebay
Hey @my-cottage-books-and-antiques! This is something that we are looking into and we will share more insight once we hear more.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·2 years ago@devon@ebay Thanks ... I hope we hear back soon.
iamalwaysright
·2 years agoI'm seeing it too in my business policies. Too bad BidPay isn't a choice on there.
tobaccocardyahoo
·2 years agoMaybe they are testing a response to seller desires to go back to the good old days.
I'll pass, thanks Ebay.
ckimodog
·2 years ago@tobaccocardyahoo
Ditto! Nothing like getting a check that doesn't clear. Been there...done that...not a good idea.
asset_liquidators
·2 years agoYou know, in all those years of checks and money orders I never got a bad one but I only accepted money orders. I always felt there was too much risk with personal checks.
But all-in-all I agree, that's a bygone era. We are too far past that to go back to that.
reallynicestamps
·2 years ago@asset_liquidators
Cheques were pretty normal in our line so we accepted them, the biggest problem was actually money orders.
US customers could not understand that Canada is a different country and constantly sent green Domestic money orders which cannot be cashed here.
Because our B&M business sold internationally, we would sneak them into our regular cheque deposits to the US dollar account or take them with us to shows in the States and cash them at a post office.
And then of course there was the Western Union scam.... which had nothing to do with WU, but was nasty until the payment processors came up with a better idea.
@ trip98
Online checkout fees
When customers use PayPal to purchase items directly through a website’s checkout (without being redirected to PayPal’s payments page), PayPal takes 3.49% of the transaction plus a $0.49 fee.
https://www.shopify.com/ca/blog/paypal-fees#
evry1nositswindy
·2 years agoI wasn't listing in one of those categories.
bimm_corp
·2 years agoJust started doing my daily "Sell Similar" listings and saw an " Allow offline payment" button just below the "Schedule your listing" button. It's a bit hard to believe that after all the fuss when eBay forced managed payments that they would backtrack and allow sellers the freedom we used to have.
dhbookds
·2 years agoSome categories accept those payments........
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/payment-policies/payment-methods-policy?id=4269&st=3&pos=3&query=Payment%20methods%20policy&intent=buyer%20payment%20m&lucenceai=lucenceai&docId=HELP1283
evry1nositswindy
·2 years agoI just saw it too. H to the NO! We should have had a heads up on a change that big.
hartungcards
·2 years agoI saw that for the first time yesterday, and my immediate reaction was, "Do you think I'm insane?"