How to disable Paypal as payment, for sales (not purchases)

[scrap3294]

Before the eBay new payments management (as seller), I was able to select any payment type I wanted for the sales; I typically excluded Paypal.

Now, when I sell and item, there is no option to exclude Paypal, and I can't find where I can do it.

Is it possible to disable Paypal payments for sales? If so, where can I do it?

Thanks.

[downunder-61]

AS you are on MP, you have no reason to remove Paypal as the sellers processor, that has already been done.

If you are wanting to remove Paypal from the list of ways a buyer can pay for an item, that is not possible, (at least not over here in Au).

[tdumonde2014]

Not possible on ebay.com. Ask this question on your forum, the rules on ebay.de may be different.

[dbfolks166mt]

Welcome to MP. You cannot remove PayPal as a payment option anymore than you can remove credit or debit cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Under MP eBay makes the decisions about what form of payment a buyer can use. 

[inhawaii]

You can't but why would you want to? That makes no sense. You must be misunderstanding something.

Customer pays with paypal:  Money goes in to your managed payments account.

Customer pays with google:  Money goes in to your managed payments account.

Customer pays with visa:  Money goes in to your managed payments account.

Customer pays with mastercard:  Money goes in to your managed payments account.

Customer pays with amex:  Money goes in to your managed payments account.

Customer pays with discover: Money goes in to your managed payments account.

The more options the customer has to pay, the better.

[maxine*j]

You cannot disable PayPal as a payment option, and why would you want to?  With Managed Payments, the money for any sale goes directly into your bank account regardless of how the customer paid.

If you have some some personal antagonism to PayPal, you will have to decide if it's great enough to keep you from selling on eBay.  Otherwise, it simply makes no difference to your business  if a paying customer cares to use it.

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[friskya]

If you're in (mis)Managed Payments, it doesn't matter if you're paid through PayPal™ or not. They aren't the ones who will be paying you. eBay (through their new payment processor) is who is paying you and it's doubtful that they care how they received the money to do so. 

[lacemaker3]

@scrap3294, I see that you are registered as a private seller on the eBay Italy website. I don't know which eBay website you are listing your items on, because they all use € as the currency.

It used to be possible for some private sellers in the EU (on eBay Germany for example) to not use eBay checkout (which meant that the payment was processed by PayPal). However, when payments don't go through eBay checkout that meant that buyers had no protection at all for their purchase or payments, and some scammers took advantage of this to cheat buyers, but this was required at the time because of the laws in some countries.

Now that eBay is using managed payments, it appears that this has been changed, and all payments have to go through the eBay checkout process. You can't ask your buyers to pay you outside of eBay anymore, so sending cash, wire transfers, and other unsecure payments are not allowed now, which protects the buyers from being cheated. Apparently since buyers can use instant transfer through checkout and managed payments, this is now allowed.

Here are the payment rules on eBay Germany, and also a gisted translation from Google Translate (because most people on this forum don't read German fluently).

https://www.ebay.de/help/policies/payment-policies/payment-methods-policy?id=4269

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Here are the payment rules on eBay Italy, if you want to review them. These don't appear to have changed recently, and it appears that all payments on eBay Italy had to go through eBay checkout and were processed by PayPal before the change to managed payments.

https://www.ebay.it/help/policies/payment-policies/payment-methods-policy?id=4269

[lacemaker3]

@inhawaii, @maxine*j 

For those who are wondering why OP would want to do this, it used to be possible for private sellers who posted on some EU eBay sites, to not accept a safe online payment method. Wire transfers are fairly common in the EU, and used to be allowed, but they did not provide any purchase or payment protection to buyers at all. That's how OP used to be paid; from a recent sold listing:

Apparently, with managed payments, eBay has now found a way to require all sellers on eBay Germany to accept safe, online payment methods. This way, they are covered by the eBay Money Back Guarantee, or eBay-Käuferschutz (eBay Buyer Protection) on eBay Germany.

[axiombody]

I don't no if anyone answered yet what I think you may be asking, but you must have changed recently as I did and had problems refunding people because it wanted me to use my paypal.  I could not find anywhere to change funding source for refunds.  I realized after receiving payments for a while that people who paid before I changed to MP I had to refund them through paypal, but afterward if they paid using MP I could use those funds to refund.

[scrap3294]

> You can't but why would you want to? That makes no sense. You must be misunderstanding something.

If one has no experience as seller, certainly, it makes no sense. From the seller's perspective, there are a couple of reasons:

1. at least in the past (not sure about the present), sales via Paypal were subject to the extra Paypal fee, on top of the already high eBay one

2. sellers are not the only one that can be scammers; buyers can be, too; eBay has been, at least for a long time, biased towards buyers, and with Paypal, it's very easy to cause significant headaches to buyers, which I don't want.

I'm not against Paypal, just against shoving policies down the users taking advantage of their market position. And to clear the waters about free market: when a company has more revenue than the GDP of a small country, and thousands of patents (https://patents.justia.com/assignee/ebay?page=193), there's no free market.

[nobody*s_perfect]

When a seller is in Managed Payments, they would not be charged a fee when the buyer uses their own PayPal account to make the payment.  When a seller is in MP, they would never be charged a PayPal fee..

[dbfolks166mt]

You can't but why would you want to? That makes no sense. You must be misunderstanding something.

If one has no experience as seller, certainly, it makes no sense. From the seller's perspective, there are a couple of reasons:

1. at least in the past (not sure about the present), sales via Paypal were subject to the extra Paypal fee, on top of the already high eBay one

You are correct about the PayPal fees for handling the financial transaction. However, under managed payments while there is no longer a PayPal fee for handling the financial transaction eBay has, for lack of a better word, incorporated that fee cost into their fee structure under MP. The fees you are paying as a seller under eBay managed payments are about the same as they were before when you had the separate eBay fees + PayPal fee. 

2. sellers are not the only one that can be scammers; buyers can be, too; eBay has been, at least for a long time, biased towards buyers, and with Paypal, it's very easy to cause significant headaches to buyers, which I don't want.

That bias towards the buyer still exists regardless of how the buyer paid. They can just as easily open a chargeback with their credit card company as they could/can with PayPal. That is provided they have not already gone through eBay with a claim first. 

I'm not against Paypal, just against shoving policies down the users taking advantage of their market position. And to clear the waters about free market: when a company has more revenue than the GDP of a small country, and thousands of patents (https://patents.justia.com/assignee/ebay?page=193), there's no free market.

There are a LOT of companies out there that have more revenues than a the GDP of a small country and eBay is a LONG way from being on top of that list. It is the very existence of intellectual property rights that make a free market. It has often been argued that lack of individual intellectual property rights is what inhibits economic growth in communist countries. 

[diverse_net_ventures]

Here's one reason not to use Paypal as a payment option for selling: Paypal will NOT refund the seller their fee if there is a return of the item for buyer refund.

Is this not so?

[releasethekraken_1]

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@diverse_net_ventures wrote:

Here's one reason not to use Paypal as a payment option for selling: Paypal will NOT refund the seller their fee if there is a return of the item for buyer refund.

Is this not so?

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That was true, but that is now irrelevant for sellers in Managed Payments.