mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@simply-the-best-for-you wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:The difference is it does NOT have to be the buyer's PayPal email address. That is not required at all.
We simply need a buyer's email address that they want us to send the invoice to.
Gotcha. Yes, that is true, it can be any email they want it to be. Not sure why they'd want it to be anything other than their PP email & with my buyers, I'm going to keep phrasing it the way I do, b/c as a rule, my buyer demographic skews not very technically astute, but you're right, they could use a different email if they wanted.
Then as a buyer, you and I would have had issues because I use a different email address from my PP account. So if we were in a transaction and I refused to give you my PP email address, what would you do then. You really have no need for it, so why do you insist on having it. Some people keep that as protected information.
There were inaccuracies in your original post as has been gone over in detail by a few members. Whether you are willing to take that information get a different perspective from it is another thing all together.
In your most recent post you added the policy on "buyer or sell outside of Ebay policy". That is rather confusing and insulting to me as I don't think ANYONE on this thread has suggested or even talked about doing any such thing.
Billing a buyer for an additional cost through PayPal is NOT selling anything outside of Ebay and it has been a practice of sellers for YEARS since Ebay still does not offer us any way to do this without extra work [beyond sending an invoice], more fees and potentially causing us to hurt our own stats.
So if Ebay is going to take this left turn and now tell us it will be considered a breach of this policy if we invoice through PayPal for reshipping charges, then this needs to be announced and policies added or re-written.
There is really no need to "pass on" the problem presented in this thread as it has been done countless times over the years, some by me, and to date Ebay has not seen fit to give us a reasonable process to accomplish this on the site. Instead the threat dinging us for selling outside of Ebay is brought up as if it were going to be something used against sellers for this process if we use PayPal.
I did reach out to the OP a few days ago, he isn't really concerned about it. I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised by your post but certainly happy to read it. Earlier in the thread it was more of a joke to some about having a proper solution on the thread, so your current comments are refreshing.
Oh at my age I could easily be confused! I went back an looked and I mixed you up with someone else. I'm so sorry. I hope you can forgive me. It was MY mistake.
@henscheper2 wrote:Hi, I ask buyers to write "at" instead of @. That works for me.
It isn't necessary if you have a transaction with the buyer in the past 60 days.
@mam98031 wrote:
There were inaccuracies in your original post as has been gone over in detail by a few members. Whether you are willing to take that information get a different perspective from it is another thing all together.
In your most recent post you added the policy on "buyer or sell outside of Ebay policy". That is rather confusing and insulting to me as I don't think ANYONE on this thread has suggested or even talked about doing any such thing.
Billing a buyer for an additional cost through PayPal is NOT selling anything outside of Ebay and it has been a practice of sellers for YEARS since Ebay still does not offer us any way to do this without extra work [beyond sending an invoice], more fees and potentially causing us to hurt our own stats.
So if Ebay is going to take this left turn and now tell us it will be considered a breach of this policy if we invoice through PayPal for reshipping charges, then this needs to be announced and policies added or re-written.
There is really no need to "pass on" the problem presented in this thread as it has been done countless times over the years, some by me, and to date Ebay has not seen fit to give us a reasonable process to accomplish this on the site. Instead the threat dinging us for selling outside of Ebay is brought up as if it were going to be something used against sellers for this process if we use PayPal.
It was not my intention to insult anyone @mam98031. I wanted to let everyone know the concerns we have about sharing contact info, and also let everyone know that the policy has not changed as there was a lot of speculation around that being the case.
velvet@ebay wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
There were inaccuracies in your original post as has been gone over in detail by a few members. Whether you are willing to take that information get a different perspective from it is another thing all together.
In your most recent post you added the policy on "buyer or sell outside of Ebay policy". That is rather confusing and insulting to me as I don't think ANYONE on this thread has suggested or even talked about doing any such thing.
Billing a buyer for an additional cost through PayPal is NOT selling anything outside of Ebay and it has been a practice of sellers for YEARS since Ebay still does not offer us any way to do this without extra work [beyond sending an invoice], more fees and potentially causing us to hurt our own stats.
So if Ebay is going to take this left turn and now tell us it will be considered a breach of this policy if we invoice through PayPal for reshipping charges, then this needs to be announced and policies added or re-written.
There is really no need to "pass on" the problem presented in this thread as it has been done countless times over the years, some by me, and to date Ebay has not seen fit to give us a reasonable process to accomplish this on the site. Instead the threat dinging us for selling outside of Ebay is brought up as if it were going to be something used against sellers for this process if we use PayPal.
It was not my intention to insult anyone @mam98031. I wanted to let everyone know the concerns we have about sharing contact info, and also let everyone know that the policy has not changed as there was a lot of speculation around that being the case.
The reason that some thought the policy may have changed is because of what you said in the post that you marked as the solution, NOT speculation. It didn't come from anywhere else but your post. What you stated was incorrect and is not how it functions as my test a few posts after that proved out. So it started with what you said.
And still the policy of trying to trade off Ebay DOES NOT apply to what we have been talking about here. No one was trying to do that and it simply has NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. So why bring it up in the first place as it felt a bit threatening really. It simply has nothing to do with the discussion or what anyone is trying to accomplish.
I don't want to make you feel like I'm attacking you, that is simply NOT my intent. It is simply that the information you collected from others and then posted as a solution for this thread was incorrect for the most part. I know you are standing by what others told you, but it practice it is not correct. It is a way of doing things but not the only way and not necessarily the best way for a seller to handle this.
