@2013grotz wrote:
Indeed. People here seem to think everything happens in a vacuum, but it doesn't. This is definitely true of me. I'm going to be far less likely to be a BUYER on this site because I have to deal with Managed Payments as a seller. Like others have said, my buying dollars ARE my selling dollars and the conditions under which they are received. While it might not be sensible to most, from a psychological and planning sense, Paypal funds are a lot different than personal checking account funds to me. For me, that isolation that having the Paypal account afforded was an encouragement to buy. That simply isn't present with it all going into my checking account.
The moral of the story with all these changes Ebay is making: They need to be thinking of the moral behind the Golden Goose story.
Pure greed is the reason behind this latest boneheaded move by ebay - unfortunately for them, this is going to cost them a lot more than any profit earned from not paying sellers for their merchandise and pocketing their money. Somebody might want to explain to the ebay execs that:
(1) Their income comes from the 13% commission they snatch from each sale on ebay and
(2)If they are causing merchants to lose all their sales then they also hurt their bottom line as well: NO SALES = NO COMMISSION
