Just When I Thought eBay Had Gotten The Message,,,NOT

After listening to the keynote address at the ECMTA Spring 2008 Summit in New Orleans, I was excited when Lorrie Norrington eBay’s President of Marketplace Operations said that eBay had heard us (sellers) and eBay would be paying more attention to eBay’s true customers. That would be us, the sellers. We pay the fees to eBay, not the buyers,,, but I digress. I was actually excited when Lorrie spoke. Maybe, just maybe eBay would be working with the sellers to make a better marketplace.

After the news I found on AuctionBytes.com regarding PayPal and eBay changing the payments acceptance policy I knew I had been lulled into a false hope! I went to the thread I found on AuctionBytes and lookie what I found. In this thread I learned that PayPal/eBay have taken it upon themselves to again tell sellers how they can run their business. Now, it appears that we the sellers can no longer choose how we are going to be paid. (Surprsise Surprise! Especially after the eBay Austrailia annoucement) That’s right folks, now if you accept PayPal (and trust me soon this will be a REQUIREMENT site wide) you as a seller MUST accept e-checks. Even though it takes up to 7 days to clear a check through PayPal, sellers will no longer be able to opt out of accepting this form of payment.

How eBay can rationalize forcing sellers to take checks is beyond me. eBay is taking our business decisions right out of our hands. I would remind eBay that tens of thousands of businesses will not take checks for a variety of reasons. Now according to the thread, eBay has decided we the sellers do not know what our business needs are. We sellers can not be trusted to make our own business decisions, so they are opting to allow the BUYER to make that decision for us.

 

I don’t care if it is just one e-check a year, I do not want the hassel and extra work associated with this type of payment!

So much for the “seller experience”!

Just my Final Value!