eBay holding payments until item is authenticated

[sneakerhistorycollection]

200+/- transactions in the sneaker category with 0 items being returned as inauthentic, my reward is to now have payments held?   eBay recently made this change over the last week or two from what I can tell.  However I never received notice of a change to their terms of service.  

 

[heckofagame]

This is not new. If you are a new seller or have not sold for a while, you will be under the rules for a new seller until you reestablish yourself.

[sneakerhistorycollection]

Let’s start again.  I have been selling on eBay for 7 years but increased about a year before eBay implemented authenticity guarantee for sneakers.  So for the last 2 years and about 200 sales I’ve not had one returned as item not described or inauthentic.  However 2 weeks ago my payments started being held until the pair I sell passes the authentication step.   So with no cause I'm being rewarded for being a decent seller with payment holds.  How does this make sense?

[kensgiftshop]

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@sneakerhistorycollection wrote:

Let’s start again.  I have been selling on eBay for 7 years but increased about a year before eBay implemented authenticity guarantee for sneakers.  So for the last 2 years and about 200 sales I’ve not had one returned as item not described or inauthentic.  However 2 weeks ago my payments started being held until the pair I sell passes the authentication step.   So with no cause I'm being rewarded for being a decent seller with payment holds.  How does this make sense?

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Since you're dropshipping and you have no idea what will be shipped, they want to make sure the money is there if they have to refund.

[teoosvinta-27]

Absolutely ridiculous. The money is paid by the buyer send the payout fools. I thought I had an excess of funds come to find out there's a hold on the funds, I've never had any items come back not authentic. I have 90 transactions from 2019 to 2023 not that many but this is no doubt due to people using proxies and bots. 

[ebooksdiva]

@teoosvinta-27 

If you haven’t sold in a while, eBay will treat you like a new or infrequent seller and hold your funds for up to 30 days. Payments on hold  

[ancresale-111]

Did u ever find out why they put your funds on hold. I'm in the same ssituation. I've only been selling since April buy I've done a good amount of sneakers. Long story short I haven't had to wait to get my money I just went t//through the regular process till today I sold some air air force one and now they said I can't get my money till they get authenticated. So I'm  confused on what I've done wrong. Let me know if you found out n e thing

[albertabrightalberta]

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