eBay

ekmadonna · ‎02-18-2019

Very surprised there has been no discussion about the huge glitch to the other e-site funneling hundreds and thousands of dollars out of sellers checking accounts and charging their credit cards huge sums of money that was not owed over the weekend. Very scary when you consider they use the same Managed Payments Processor Ayden. Sorry but I do not have the link from Ecommercbytes but it is a MUST READ!

drusalina · ‎02-19-2019

One poster on Etsy wrote: "If you have an Etsy account go to your finance page and turn off Auto Billing. They cannot by law charge your account without your permission. "

Will have to remember this when eBay goes to total managed payments. I think that eBay will further shoot themselves in the foot, if they don't allow buyers to use Pay Pal.

Change the channel!

be_4101 · ‎02-19-2019

@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
They are the ones who screwed up somehow. Incompetence? Disgruntled employee? Hacked? Who knows...and I'm sure Etsy won't go into any details aside from a lame apology to those that were affected.

Actually, eTsy did say what caused the problem.

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎02-19-2019

You mean the lame "site change that went wrong" reason?

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

vintagecraze50 · ‎02-19-2019

I am thinking that such glitches can happen when the infrastructure of the company is not sufficient enough to handle the responsibility of all this. PP has had a large infrastructure, enough employees, experts, tech people probably to avoid such mishaps. I love PP.

castlemagicmemories · ‎02-19-2019

Some pretty massive errors by Etsy, though.

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎02-19-2019

Which they are still compounding this morning (and still nothing but a lame "we're sorry but this only affected a small # of sellers and we're working on it"). Sound familiar?

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

iwaroaddog · ‎02-19-2019

I only use it as an overflow and I guess I am lucky I haven't had any issues. I've made a few sales there but it is more hit and miss than here sometimes. Even though I had a real good January.

conniedecember · ‎02-19-2019

Thank you so much for this very informative information

yuzuha · ‎02-19-2019

@18704d wrote:
A good reason why I, like many others,
use a totally different bank and bank account linked to our online sales and purchases.

That way, 'mistake's can't touch your real money.

This is just basic common sense and I'm amazed at how many people don't do this.

grasshopperx · ‎02-19-2019

Go read it everyone! DO IT! It's disgusting. And after you read the 83 pages Of garbage, just remember this. They all know each other. and it's musical chairs at the top!

purplebirdiecharm-crystalsrock · ‎02-19-2019

I am letting everything expire over on Etsy. Between the forum change, the glitches and the fees; its died over there for me.

I had a healthy store that was growing there for the last year but took a dive after the fee hike and then the finally nail was the forum change.

Now when I sell something, the fees eat up all my profits that right now I'm giving away my items at this point.

I don't have a store here but once did and not sure if I'll have another store. I'm putting as much as I can on here and see what happens.

gopetersen · ‎02-19-2019

@drusalina wrote:
One poster on Etsy wrote: "If you have an Etsy account go to your finance page and turn off Auto Billing. They cannot by law charge your account without your permission. "

Will have to remember this when eBay goes to total managed payments. I think that eBay will further shoot themselves in the foot, if they don't allow buyers to use Pay Pal.

There are probably many betsy sellers who don't know this has happened yet. Many of them don't use the betsy forums. They are artisans, crafters, quietly doing their thing and looking up recent activity (money-wise) isn't all that easy on betsy. I'm sure the same thing would happen if this occurred on eBay. It would be some time before a lot of the small sellers and casual sellers would realize something was amiss.

gopetersen · ‎02-19-2019

@grasshopperx wrote:
Go read it everyone! DO IT! It's disgusting. And after you read the 83 pages Of garbage, just remember this. They all know each other. and it's musical chairs at the top!

Yes, THIS, exactly.