@oaklief wrote:
I've been a member for a long time and am connected to paypal for my transactions. I just listed a piece to sell and ebay wants my bank info. I checked with paypal and all seems to be in working order yet ebay wants me to give my bank info to tell them where to send my "payouts". Sinse paypal is owned by ebay this information should already be available to them through paypal. I need a work around fix for this Delima. The "brain child" in the lower r corner is absolutely NO help at all and I have no way to get a live body on a phone. Damned frustrating at this point and I don't want to go somewhere else to sell my porcelain if I can fix this.
@oaklief:
The only thing to "fix" is for you to get up-to-date on the changes. Obviously MANY years have gone by since you've sold here and haven't kept up with eBay's evolution.
1. No one gets paid thru PayPal anymore. eBay hasn't "owned" PayPal for about 10 years now... that divorce happened a long time ago, and PayPal can be used only for purchasing things on eBay.
2. Sellers now get paid thru eBay's Managed Payments system, which works out just fine for us after we get used to it.
3. The need to give eBay your banking/credit card, and SSN information is mostly no different than what was on file at PayPal, and is currently needed by law in order to sell on other online sites as well.
4. There is no longer ANY phone number to call to get in touch with a real eBay CS agent who has the authority to correctly answer any questions or solve any problems. When an eBay CS Rep is needed, requesting thru eBay Chat for a real Agent to phone you, or using a social media connection to actual eBay CS, is the only way to move forward with any questions or problems needing an accurate solution. Other seasoned sellers here constantly post the authentic contact URLs for the real eBay CS. Also, you can often get a question answered or an accurate solution fairly quickly from the many knowledgeable oldtimers right here on this forum.
5. Getting a phone number for eBay CS from a friend, or worse yet from the internet, is asking for circling the drain and going down a rathole. Such phone "agents" are either totally bogus, or scammers wanting your information for the dark web, or staffed by unintelligible foreign outsourced workers who will tell you anything you want to hear, quite often inaccurate, by reading from a script just to get you off the phone.
6. Perhaps most importantly, you need to read eBay's Terms of Service and other Policies, and read thru at least a few hundred posts on this forum to get familiarized and more up-to-date with the changes that have happened, since your knowledge of the mechanics of selling on eBay are way outdated.
Welcome back to selling. The water's warm, and things are essentially running quite smoothly for those of us who have accepted, adjusted, and adapted to the changes over the years. It's what makes alert and patient eBay sellers successful.
Cheers, Duffy
