@nicci-thomson wrote:
My advice for new sellers DONT! ebay will be keeping the fees and the money the buyer pays you for as long as they want but it will be at least 30 days. They will not tell you this in advance of your sale. They get to decide how long to hold your funds based on their own criteria. You will not get a warning when submitting your item for sale. You will not receive a notification before the sale. They will not release funds for shipping. They will not release the funds on the day the buyer confirms they have the goods and leave positive feedback. Ebay wants to bilk us for every cent they can. Now that includes holding your money that you need by not releasing the funds to you until they feel like it.
Payment holds are standard on eBay for new sellers, and even for established sellers with high value sales, with performance issues, and more. Nobody is a fan of them, but they're in place as a measure of fraud prevention. Anybody considering selling on eBay should read about how the payments process works before listing anything. Here's the article about payment holds:
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/getting-paid/getting-paid-items-youve-sold/payments-hold?id=4816
Some marketplaces release payments immediately, while other marketplaces release funds only once a month or once every two weeks - these holds are not exclusive to eBay.
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