mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@missjen316 wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
@fashunu4eeuh wrote:@mam98031 Hi, i went to find where this was discussed recently. Sorry if my post was confusing. Didn't mean to suggest a buyer was marking anything Paid.
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/EBAY-SCAMMERS-PAYPAL-PAYMENT-PENDING/m-p/27470222#M1041122
It wasn't an Ebay hacked situation (that i am aware of). Over a couple of weeks i saw 2 or 3 posts from sellers saying that their ebay had said "Ok to ship" while their PayPal payment for the transaction stated "Pending". It was suggested that an echeck payment was a possible culprit and somehow played a role in the conflicting contradictory scenario.
Then it is an Ebay Glitch as I previously stated. A serious one and one we all need to be aware of.
As a matter of policy, I ALWAYS without fail verify my payments in PP before I ship anything. I have done this since the day I started selling and I will continue to do this. Over the years it has served me well and is worth the additional step in my shipping process.
I have never depended upon an Ebay page to tell me what to ship and/or when. I have always determined that myself AFTER verifying that the payment is received.
Its still a SCAM and the scammers are exploiting ebay and paypal. They are intentionally paying with bad e-checks. Its not an ebay glitch, its scammers taking advantage.
alan@ebay
mention@ebay
Ebay is NOT scamming the sellers. As for Ebay, it is a glitch, one that needs immediate attention, but a glitch nonetheless. Some buyers have discovered this glitch and are using it to their advantage. It is those buyers that are the scammers NOT Ebay.
Before this if a seller received an echeck from a buyer, the sales record in Ebay showed payment pending.
The $ is in sync and has always been from my end. I never go to paypal to verify a payment. If you point to a bolded Dollar sign ($) it will tell you it was paid with paypal and the date of payment. If you click on the bolded dollar sign it will give you details about the payment, Everything works correctly.
At this point in time it does work fine as you have described.
The problem is many users here in the forum have scared other sellers into thinking they have to go to paypal to verify the payment has been made or not.
I'm one of the sellers that has suggested verifying payments on the PP website before shipping. I used NO scare tactic in my post nor was my post ever intended to scare anyone. I simply shared my process and my opinion. I get it that you don't think it is important and you are entitled to your opinion. Mine is just different than yours. That does NOT make what I posted intended to scare anyone. It is much simpler than that. My intent was to SHARE the procedure I use that has served me well for a couple of decades. And in that time I have never shipped anything before a payment had cleared.
I respect that your process works for you and many other sellers. As does my procedure even though it is different than yours. The information was shared for others to consider or disregard as they see fit. Whatever process a seller chooses, if it works for them, it is fine. It is their choice. But to portray that something someone else posted to be a "scare" tactic is a misrepresentation of what was actually posted. So who is trying to scare whom?
I'm aware that you did not direct your posting to any one seller. I'm not worked up so there is no need for me to "calm down". I simply responded that I am one of the sellers that you posted about verifying $$ with PP. I simply clarified that my posting was not a scare tactic of any kind as you suggested. It was simply sharing my procedure. Everyone reading my posts is welcome to consider it or ignore it. It is their choice to make.
There is a separate issue that is being discussed on a couple other threads regarding the Ebay side not showing when a payment is pending when it is an echeck, but showing it as a good payment now and saying the seller needs to ship. This is apparently happening with some echeck payments.
So while for you, and many others I'm sure, checking your Ebay reports may be the best way for you to handle things. There isn't a darn thing wrong with that. For me and others, we do the extra step to verify the payment is actually in our PP accounts. And there isn't a darn thing wrong with that. We just have different procedures. Nothing more. No one is trying to "scare" anyone. We are just sharing thoughts, ideas and opinions.
I get that you claim not be trying to scare anyone but the fact is you seem to be compulsed to respond to every post as if you need to defend yourself.
I believe that I know my motives far better than you do. I'm stating a fact. You are the one that is claiming I said something or intended something that I did not. I'm Not defending myself as there is nothing I need to defend. I respect that you don't agree with me, I take no issue with that at all. Your opinion is that I and/or others were/are trying to "scare" some other sellers. I can only speak for myself and I know for my posts, that is not the case.
Saying no one is trying to scare anyone is stated as a fact on your behalf which I am sure you did not did it purposely, but then again you are not trying to scare anyone that you are aware of either?
You are again misrepresenting what I said. I did not say "no one is trying to scare anyone". My exact statement was "I'm one of the sellers that has suggested verifying payments on the PP website before shipping. I used NO scare tactic in my post nor was my post ever intended to scare anyone." That is a FACT! For whatever reason you have, you seem to want my posts seem to be something they are not. The FACT is I did not say what you are stating that I did and I did not intend what you are saying I did.
Enough please!
