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PayPal Mulls Expanded Seller Protection for a Price By: Ina Steiner PayPal is conducting a survey to determine how much sellers would be willing to pay for a new seller protection program. PayPal exposed survey respondents to five variations of the program and asked a series of questions after each...

PayPal to Let Top Buyers Pay for Items After Delivery By: Ina Steiner Tue Dec 14 2010 21:25:51 PayPal is testing a "Pay After Delivery" program in which some members of its top-buyer program can pay for items 2 weeks after making a purchase and after they have verified receipt of their goods...

Who could imagine? Citizens mount a real effort and laws get passed? PayPal No Longer Mandatory on eBay France By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com November 25, 2010 eBay sellers in France are no longer required to offer PayPal as a payment method in their listings, effective November 16, 2010. eBay Fra...

eBay to scrap all 3rd party checkouts by Chris Dawson ebay have announced that as of the 30th June 2011 they will be closing all 3rd party checkouts and the only checkout available on eBay will be eBays own checkout. Read the rest at link... -- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 24th of August 2010 06:07:0...

PayPal Practices Driving Sellers to Seek Alternatives PayPal has established itself as the de facto method of transacting money on the Internet. It is ruffling some feathers, though, with business and dispute resolution practices that seem to be focused on making sure PayPal gets to hang onto mon...

Craigslist Drops "Adult Services"

Hilarious! from auctionbytes blog comments Uploaded with ImageShack.us Not sure how that will 'win' anything. Keep in mind that ebaY *claims* they can and do detect whether you leave all 5 one-star ratings, and whether one single ID and/or IP are repeatedly leaving negs and low DSRs as a pattern. S...

Ebayers Thanksgiving Day Olympics Nov 6, 2010 12:12 PM Report Anyone else hear about this? It's suppose to start at 12 noon EST on Thanksgiving Day. Those partaking in the event are competing for 2 gold medals, one for purchasing the most items in one weeks time, the other for purchasing the highest to...

Tips to stay safe when using PayPal Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010, 8:45 PMWhen Nicole Dunn, a television producer went to a local gas station and tried to pay for a fill up and was declined, her heart stopped. She knew she had plenty of money to cover in her account. Later, she learned that online...

PayPal increases buyer protection, West African scammers rejoice Posted on Oct 03rd, 2010 by Pedro Telles Last June, when PayPal last revised its terms & conditions, we reported that the changes appeared to have reduced buyer protection for purchases made over classified listing websites s...

To Paypal or NOT to Paypal Quite unbelievably, despite reporting a problem to Paypal on 26 August, we have STILL not received confirmation that this problem has been resolved. Heres the background StatCounter members who had upgraded in the previous few days had NOT been appropriately upgraded as...

These complaint sites are growing in number and getting full of anti-eb and anti paypal comments all over, from people who never even heard of "paypalsucks" or visited the rigged and shill-filled eb communty forums. But just how retarded is paypal? On this consumer complaint site they a...

Oh my! Quite a shocker from the finance forum. Ebay-Paypal; Terrorist Paymasters? Short the stock. They could all end up in jail I was recently the victim of fraud of $5,793.88 for gold ingots sold on Ebay-Paypal and shipped to Indonesia. Despite providing conclusive evidence of the fraud, Ebay has...

PayPal horror story: Man develops Web site for MMA fighter, who then stiffs him & threatens to sue (image and comments at link. You'll want to see it. Or not. I'm not sure if this is an anti-PayPal story or an anti-bully story, but here we go. A guy on Reddit, cerebellum of the Internet, was cont...

PayPal Takes Bite Out Of User's Funds, Calls It 'Rolling Reserve' In addition to tacking on some sneaky new fees, PayPal apparently has instituted another off-putting practice on some accounts. According to reader Melissa, the online money changer was taking 20 percent off of her monthly sales an...

eBay UK: "we want buyers to leave more negs" We've been hearing two, apparently related, things from eBay sellers for a week or two now - one, a sudden increase in negative and neutral feedback overall, and two, an increase in negative and neutral feedbacks with positive comments. More th...

eBay bows to ACCC pressure By Ben Grubb, ZDNet.com.au on May 13th, 2010 (3 hours ago) The Australian version of auction website eBay will change its website and payment policies in July, removing the rule that sellers must offer PayPal as a payment option. The decision was made following an Australi...

PayPal India Goes Back To The Dark AgesIn what is largely seen as a regressive change to PayPal India's terms and conditions, the company, starting March 1, 2011 would NOT allow its Indian users to make purchases for goods and services directly from their PayPal accounts. If that wasn't all, users...

PayPal and eBay have hung me out to dry PayPal small print leaves eBay seller without The Guardian, Saturday 29 January 2011 I sold a 46-inch Sony TV and Blu-ray player on eBay for £750. The items were paid for via PayPal, and the buyer asked if they could come and col...

Account suspended: getting the cold shoulder from eBay eBay says it has more buyer and seller phone support, but we continue to hear from people claiming difficulties getting help after their accounts have been suspended. This week we've heard from a reader about a problem with eBay. Benny had a pro...

PayPal to Close WoW Gold Seller Accounts By Jason Freeman on Feb 02, 2011 in Technology With Blizzard and Paypal in bed together, there might be a way to stop gold-selling in the blockbuster MMO World of Warcraft video game. Paypal, known for facilitating digital space payment, was asked by Blizzard...

Zombie Debt Collector Tries To Collect 11-Year-Old PayPal Balance By Laura Northrup on February 18, 2011 8:00 AM Christopher is currently being haunted my a small debt from his past. At least, it might be from his past: he's not sure. A collection agency is after him trying to collect a $315 PayPal bal...

It's long...ebaY's Secret Shill Bidding Policy and Tutorial Changes Revisited -- Edited by budnonymous on Sunday 30th of December 2012 06:21:30 PM

Is eBay Planning New Returns Policy? By: Ina Steiner Thu Feb 24 2011 10:23:37 Could eBay be planning a new returns policy? Currently the policy requires all sellers on eBay to specify a return policy, whether they accept returns or not. We learned this week that eBay is hiring a Senior Manager of eBay R...

PayPal warily eyes the Feds forthcoming debit card rule A proposed maximum debit card interchange fee could hurt its finances, PayPal says. The Federal Reserve Board accepted its final comments this week on a proposed debit card rule that could have a major impact on PayPal as well as on merchants an...

PayPal Aims for Brick and Mortar Stores, Hires New VP to Help By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com March 10, 2011 PayPal has hired a new Vice President for Retail and Prepaid Products to help bring PayPal offline and into traditional retail stores. Don Kingsborough helped launch Nintendo game consoles...

Searching ebaY for some collectible stuff, I saw what may be some search-related stray code sticking out of ebaY's pages once or twice, but not everytime. I think the other time it showed different 'finding treatments' listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us I wonder what would happen if a restauran...

Bwhahahahahaha!!! SleazebaY does it again! This time amending the fee structure to include final value fees for shipping and handling fees. Which amounts to a huge fee increase for sellers and revenue increase for ebay/paypal overall. To be fair they did decrease some fees and change some to free e...

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What's up with eBay?Daniel Leffel is CEO and founder of social retailing startup Yardsellr. A version of this post also appears on the Yardsellr blog. Ive thought for a long time about whether to post this. I finally decided that I had to do it because I would want you to tell me the truth if the shoe were o...

Looks like our fiends at PayPal may have caught some flack over Money Transmitter License issues? Hey guys, what's this message all about? Mar 20, 2011 8:15 PMReport This was tacked onto a paypal receipt I got after paying for something and I've never seen this before on ANY paypal receipt! RIGHT TO RE...

I doubt anyone needs a crystal ball to know that PP is going to have a really bad day sooner or later. Paypal freezes CryptomeCryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

EBay Persuades Judge to End Auction 'Monopoly' Suit by Sellers March 06, 2010, 12:03 AM EST By Andrew M. Harris March 6 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc., operator of the most visited U.S. e-commerce site, no longer faces a lawsuit by three sellers claiming it monopolizes the online auctions market and the me...

eBay Germany faces PayPal probe Ich nichten lichten By John Oates Posted in Small Biz, 26th February 2010 15:53 GMT eBay Germany is being investigated by competition authorities concerned that its tying of PayPal to certain eBay purchases is in breach of consumer law. eBay.de recently asked sell...

PayPals Major Flaw Bank Transfers and Bad Design I shop on eBay about once a month and normally pay with PayPal in the last 6 years making and receiving thousands of transactions, using PayPal I have had a few small issues but nothing that could not be cleared up by a phone call. But my last experience wit...

Bwhahahahaha! Another ebay scandal! roflmao! eBay Favors Select Retailers, Sellers Abuzz over Ideeli

PayPal bank funding entrapment and manipulation. I believe it can be shown that PayPal is failing to render an advertised service(Credit card funding) in good faith by manipulating default user behaviors(through software) towards a rival and exclusive service(bank funding) in such a way that i...

As we all know very well, paypal and ebay love porn. ebay's adult only section is without a doubt in the top 10 of online porn material and/or porn related suppliers in the world. We also are fairly sure that some of PP's most pesky, pernicious, and vocal supporters likely run teenie-bopper porno sites...

"Glitch" still not fixed! Ongoing since around October 25th... (at least) Paypal glitch threatens to cancel echeque payments Something Smells Bad with eBay's PayPal eCheck Glitch Paypal Holds Sellers' Funds HostageFrom ebay forums: Can't claim cleared eChecks! ...

PayPal not so friendly over return of fake goods A customer was left hanging as PayPal's dispute process generated an email advising an inappropriate course of action On eBay it looked a desirable deal: Cyberlink Suite 7 Ultra software for £24.99. So Cheryl-Anne Vass succumbed, but took the precau...

Deadbeat Buyers on eBay Can Leave Retaliatory Feedback AuctionBytes Blog Ina Steiner I was told me it's a negative experience for them and its allowed. Makes you not want to open unpaid item disputes and just eat all the money that you will lose. Do you know why this is allowed to happen on eBay? read th...

FTC Testifies on Do Not Track LegislationProposes Browser Setting So Consumers Can Make Choices About Online Tracking The Federal Trade Commission told Congress today that while the Commission recognizes that consumers may benefit in certain ways from the practice of tracking consumers onlin...

Ebay Fee Hikes, Boycott and Using the Chicken to Measure IT "Using the chicken to measure it" is a powerful dynamic metaphorical measurement standard that is commonly used when no other standard is applicable.

Paypal Is About To Get A Bruising From Facebook And Square Ohad Samet Apr 9, 2011 Editors note: Guest author Ohad Samet is an expert in managing fraud and other risks in payments systems. He is a cofounder of Signifyd, and years ago was a senior manager at PayPal and blogs at As Risky As It Gets and Twee...

eBay Adds Facebook Like Buttons to Listings By: Ina SteinerSat Apr 16 2011 016:40:58 eBay is adding Facebook Like buttons to the top of listings so users can share specific eBay items on the social networking site, and the buttons are already beginning to appear in some categories. ... ...However, t...

Oh look what the thieves at preypal are up to this time! They decide to freeze $50,000 of a sellers money over a question of a $4500 dispute. On top of that, they are trying to call it a 'reserve'. (On what is likely to be a bogus claim to begin with) Ridiculous! Fraud! Plain and simple! Uploaded with Image...

New York State Attorney General offices Fed Up with Paypal!May 3, 2011 10:55 AMReportI just registered on ebay after someone who filed a complaint with the NYS AG office sent a link to this site in their complaint. . I have been employed by the NYS atty' gen. office for 5 years and I, along with many other...

Even some of the analysts are finally catching on... From Skip McGrath:Taxes and The eBay SellerThe Online Seller's News, June 6, 2011, Volume 11, No. 11 4. Is Management Trying To Kill The "eBay Community?" Whenever I write an article like this I always worry that new and small eBay sel...

Clothing Designer Tory Burch Wins $164M In Lawsuit Against Online CounterfeitersBy TechCrunch.com, Women's clothing designer Tory Burch has been awarded $164 million in damages from online counterfeiters that have been selling copies of her shoes, bags and clothing on the web. According to Wo...

This one was lost in bookmarks for a long time. A ebay-typical scenario repeated time after time though... Gene Weingarten: After all the lies, I'm bidding eBay adieu By Gene Weingarten, Washington Post In Print: Sunday, November 21, 2010 WASHINGTON This column was written entirely while on hold w...

PayPal wants proof that 'freedom of speech' was supplied and delivered June 11th, 2011 Author: Temasek Review Dear readers We refer to our latest announcement on the freezing of our PayPal account in this thread: No more PayPal for TRE's sponsorship drive. From its correspondence with our proxy ac...

What doomed the online auction?Bidding online for everything from designer jeans to appliances was supposed to overhaul commerce as we knew it. What happened?By Kim Peterson on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 4:18 PMOnline auctions were supposed to be the next big thing. At least that's what people thought in...

June 15, 2011 Ebay and Paypal dump the EDL Posted by Antifascist (photo) No surrender to Al Qaeda, just Ebay and Paypal News has reached us that both Ebay and Paypal have closed down accounts owned by The English Defence League. Announcing the news on their Facebook page, admins tried to reassure ang...

Jun 24, 2011, 3:27 PMWhy It's Time to Move Your PayPal Balance Investors in online payment site PayPal's money market fund will soon have to find somewhere else to stash their cash. PayPal, a unit of eBay, filed forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday announcing its intention to...

June 20, 2011PayPal persists in sending phishing-friendly emailsPayPal is still sending out customer emails with embedded logon links. When will they get a clue? In the past week I've received three email messages from PayPal, and I'm ready to chew nails. The messages included multiple hot links...

More Than 100,000 People Ask eBay Classifieds to Stop Selling Animals by Stephanie Feldstein · July 18, 2011 Several years ago, eBay considered the creation of a live animals auction category. Following protests from pet lovers, eBay decided to maintain its policy against live animal listings. B...

Is this a white racist "hate" website with a paypal donation button? Well, there's absolutely no doubt about the fact it has the PP donation button there in the upper left quadrant. Regardless of your POV on whether this promotes "hate" or simply "pride", but it sho...

US embargo forces German Paypal users to forgo Cuban goods Jul 28, 2011, 15:08 GMT Berlin - German companies are being blocked from using the US online payment system Paypal if they trade in Cuban goods, due to a US embargo on trade with Cuba, a German newspaper reported Thursday. Die Welt reported tha...

Chinese Exporters to Sue PayPalCCID Net, 8/16/11A number of businesses engaged in international trade plan to launch a class action lawsuit against eBay's online payment platform PayPal for reportedly freezing accounts belonging to Chinese export traders arbitrarily and without giving any...

Who's got time for eBay?By Patrick StoutThe McDonough County VoicePosted Aug 19, 2011 @ 10:09 AMMacomb, Ill. She calls it easy because she's been at it for nine years, but Becky Parker's recent talk for the Macomb Area Chamber of Commerce on eBay sales seems to indicate the potential for a lot of work...

Auditors: IRS plan compromises security for e-payment usersBy Aliya Sternstein 08/19/2011 The Internal Revenue Service glossed over computer security in planning for a new tax return law that applies to e-payment processors, government investigators said. The law kicks in during the 2012 fi...

I do mean big, and sudden changes. Unconfirmed info received, albeit not unexpected. Major change, via unnanounced policy 'sneak attack' upon sellers very likely Keep your eyes peeled for more info. Be sure to have these links handy. You will most assuredly want to use and share them. Close Your eB...

Ebay: A Lose/Lose/Lose SituationAuthor: J. D. Redmond - TheCyberati Published: August 23, 2011 at 7:01 pm Ebay. The ingenious concept that allows anyone who wants to sell something to not only a national but an international pool of potential buyers. The Ebay success stories of sellers making six...

PayPal is becoming toxic to small business Internet giants must start treating small business owners as human beings or they will lose their juiciest revenue stream, says Milo Yiannopoulos. PayPal's enthusiasm for placing withdrawal restrictions on its customers' accounts is the stuff of lege...

August 22nd, 2011UK Paypal still deny *that* affair with HMRC, but let your details slip anyway By Sam Thewlis You probably remember us reporting on HMRC claiming they could magically tie up people's eBay usernames with their self assessment record a little while ago. We ponitifcated on the matter...

LoL Paypal involved in some heated controversy between gays and Christians. Looks like a lose/lose situation. HilariousPay Pal is at it again. Grassroots Call to Action! read those comments...

Woman accused of hacking Paypal speaks out (video at link) SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A woman facing federal charges for hacking with the group 'Anonymous' went on camera with ABC7 on Friday and denied her involvement, claiming she was wrongly accused. When you see Tracy Valenzuela, you have to wo...

eBay Begins Processing Payments on Sellers' Behalf in Europe By: Ina Steiner Tue Sept 20 2011 16:20:05 eBay is testing a new model in Germany in which it processes payments from shoppers, and then forwards the payments to the seller - a similar, though not identical, model to one Amazon.com uses for t...

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Good 'ol paypal will freeze anyone's funds... They must need the money really bad. lolCRITICAL URGENT NOTICE FROM SHERIFF MACKPosted by Stingray SFO (3% Oath Keeper) on January 13, 2012 at 9:53pm in General DiscussionView Discussions If you have an account with PayPal and/or eBay (owns PayPal) ra...

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The lawsuits are coming fast and furious!Vendor Claims eBay Plays Dirty Wednesday, February 01, 2012 LOS ANGELES (CN) - An online vendor claims eBay falsely accuses thousands of sellers of fraud and freezes accounts on a whim, in an "illicit scheme" to force sellers to p...

$675 was stolen from me on eBay. Now PayPal is trying to steal another $675 On January 18, 2012, in Herd-of-Mouth blog, by Merry Ann Moore 6 January 18, 2012 This is the nightmare story of how I was defrauded out of $675 on eBay - and then charged another $675 on my credit card by PayPal (which is owned by eBa...

bwhahaha! Trouble in Paradise?

eBay's got a PayPal problem February 24, 2012: 12:07 PM ETAs long as eBay has been struggling to right itself, Paypal has been surging. Now, it may be in jeopardy too. By Janet Morrissey, contributor FORTUNE -- Through all eBay's struggles, PayPal has alwa...

Whistleblower explains ABCs of money launderingAlleges suspicious pattern of deposits by HSBC using credit card transactions NEW YORK - A review of HSBC corporate accounts demonstrating a suspicious pattern of deposits and withdrawals illustrates how credit card transactions can be used in m...

Not that I care that much since I don't sell on sleazebay.... but Undoubtedly they've moved on and are now ingesting the Guatemalen Insanity peppers. No communication is automatic 5 stars? Hilarious! Only friggin' sleazebay would come up with something like that, even if it does 'seem' to be seller...

PayPal Strong-Arms Indie Ebook Publishers Over Erotic ContentBy Violet Blue | February 27, 2012, 3:08am PSTSummary: PayPal has forced its merchants that publish and distribute e-books to censor erotic literature. PayPals new aggressive campaign wants to stop independent e-book publishers t...

Payment optional! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ah-haha! I just can't pass up this chance. here's a great example of why ebaY sucks donkey gonads, and the mindset behind the failure. Just a snippet, but worth zooming in on. From ecommercebytes blog, town hall post: "... Charlene: there needs to be...

LoL! Another small step towards users' total ownership by sleazebay. Once they have complete control of your money, the next thing I bet will be getting paid in credits or some form of ebay e-currency. Perhaps along with advance loans on credits/ebay e-currency which need to be paid back in real cash...

The Haggler21 Days of Rage for Some EBay SellersBy DAVID SEGAL Published: March 10, 2012 The article seems to have spurred some rare Saturday announcements and blog posts. LoL! eBay Attempts to Explain PayPal Holds and Floats I saw where the shills on the paypal forum at ebay are going completely s...

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Paypal Does it Again Posted on March 12, 2012 by Helen Killer You may recall that back in December, I had a series of infuriating exchanges with PayPal. After collecting almost $20,000 to buy Christmas toys for needy children, PayPal forced me to manually refund every contribution...

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Dat's awhat I'ma tawkin abowt! Al F'n CaponePal! New paypal F'n Spokesman! Dammit! Bwhahaha! I call on anyone who sees this to spoof paypal's front page with bitter criticism and post it to as many places as possible. Target areas include Paypal & ebay facebook walls, paypal forum, PP board at e...

Humdinger! Is eBay Snatching User IDs to Give to Large Retailers? By: Ina Steiner Mon Mar 26 2012 Can eBay take away the User ID you have been using for 14 years and give it to a branded retailer? One eBay user says that appears to be what happened to his account. The seller, who opened an account on eBay.co...

Benchmark Reviews Monday, 02 April 2012How to Cheat eBay Sellers and Scam PayPalWhen eBay Buyer Protection is abused, PayPal punishes honest sellers with bad policy. Most people are familiar with eBay, the web community with an endless catalog of items ready and available for purchase from acro...

eBay Confirms Buyer Protection Changes Include Partial Refunds By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com April 05, 2012 eBay confirmed it is adding a provision to its Buyer Protection Policy in which, in some cases, eBay may refund part of the cost of the item to the buyer and receive reimbursement from th...

This just in from the land of Mondo Bizarro Beyondo! No off-topic threads on the Feedback board Apr 5, 2012 02:41 PM The Community Help Boards provide a place for members to discuss eBay policy, best practices, and get advice from other Community members on eBay related subjects. In an effort to keep...

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Debunking the eBay Myth of Free Shipping By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com April 09, 2012 If free shipping is the industry standard, as eBay states, then 21 of the top 25 ecommerce retailers have not gotten the memo. EcommerceBytes took a look at the top 25 retailers on Inter...

Just when you thought paypal couldn't get any sleazier!George Zimmerman launches website for donations via PayPal for legal, living expenses a little more here: http://wp.me/p46z9-go

A Visit to the Ebay Shop reveals sloppiness & non compliance to own guidelines. Not only do they ignore their own guidelines and gouge on shipping, they don't even have a secure checkout page.

The funny part about this is that I could not find it on news search. Even when I tried Paypal lawsuit as terms. Lol! My gawd do they have the search engines rigged too?

I hope everyone who can blogs and/or tweets this etc. Plaintiffs Work on Settlement in PayPal Holds Lawsuit By Ina Steiner...

July 11, 2012 Google Bans Shopping Search Results for Guns, Ammo, Knives With New "Family Safe" Policy Chad Love Is Google unfairly discriminating against businesses that sell firearms, ammo and knives? A recent change to Google Shopping's policies for businesses that prohibits ad...

is sleazebay trying to clean up it's horrible reputation a little bit, or is there something else at play?Ebay Witch Hunt Ebay to Ban Sales of Supernatural Items

ebaYs Latest Comedy Blunder Terms of Use to Disallow Class Action Lawsuits? Comments are open. No login required. Speak your mind. No censorship, regardless of your POV. I'm curious as to whether anyone out there actually supports or condones this policy change?

Published on Jun 29, 2012 by PickersInc11 http://PickersInc.com In yet another ridiculous move, eBay is putting limits on long time sellers for no apparent reason. Vince & Jack try to make sense of this latest move, but they just can...

This looks like some epic slithering and squirming, which didn't work the way they hoped for.Paypal President David Marcus Responds to Burned Client Theres a massive culture change happening at PayPal right now, Marcus said. If we suck at something, we now face it, and we do something about it. Pa...

Too damnd funny! sleazebay can sure move fast when their a$$ is on the line. Other than that though... eBay Begins Removing Alcohol Listings After '20/20' Report on Teen Buyer Last Call at eBay after Teens Buy Booze in Collectibles ebaY Busted For Selling Alcohol to Minors! But yeah, these kids tod...

bwhahahahahahaaaa! Coming soon to the USA, get paid/refunded with ebay credit or ebay bucks? Watch & see, as the search for 'growth' and 'wallet share' amidst evermore apparent serious decline gets more bizarre each quarter. from Tamebay (UK)eBay mull store credit instead of PayPal refu...

Looks like ebaY is finally going after the buyers. No doubt they will implement the new [secret or unannounced] policies with all the usual skill and precision they are famous for. This type of thing may backfire upon them in the upcoming Holiday season's fake ID fueled buyer bloodbath. I got my bu...

'eBay blacklisting has forced us on to doleA couple who run an online fabric retailer claim they have been "forced on to the dole" by eBay after the e-commerce giant made a "crazy and unfair" decision to freeze their account. (... ^ continues...) ^475 comments at this poin...

You just can't buy advertising like this. Note that realism. I mean, you can actually feel it, and, by golly, it feels so real! Let paypal help you get FREE STUFF!Are you a thief? Don't mind stealing so long as it cost's you nothing? Let paypal help you. On your next purchase online simply use a cred...

woweBay Relaxes Shill Bidding Provision in Major Policy Shift

Consumerist.com, Includes pollShould Sellers' Friends & Family Be Allowed To Place Bids On eBay Items?

Ebay Revises Shill Bidding Policy It has been a long standing policy with eBay that the friends and family of an eBay seller could not bid on a seller's items. The reason for this policy was that eBay had concerns that the seller's friends or family would bid on an item to increase the price, but actuall...

This is classic. LoLz! PROVEN eBay & PayPal allowed way to RIP OFF SELLERS!!! Feb 24, 2013 02:59 AM Want to rip off any seller on eBay??? Just buy an item, claim it's counterfeit, "destroy" it, sign the affidavit, receive your refund & keep the item! You don't need to submit...

LoLz! ebay pulls another ebay! A complete and undeniable reversal of prior written and vocal statements. eBay Changes to User Agreement Raise Questions from Sellers If you read this, the 'letter to the editor' link therein, and the comments, you'll learn that pointing out ebay's constantly con...

More sleazy, crooked behavior from sleazebay management? There's likely still more which could be exposed or highlighted should anyone feel the urge.ebay's Erez Yereslove Violating Ebay Policies?

eBay Launches Seller Protection Hub By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com April 30, 2013 In 2010, eBay took the unusual step of publishing a letter from CEO John Donahoe on the eBay home page during the holiday shopping season. In the letter, Donahoe explained how eBay Buyer Protection worked in order...

paypal error not in your favor PayPal Resolves Dispute In Your Favor By Draining Your Checking Account By Laura Northrup on February 22, 2011 2:00 PM When Russell contacted PayPal about what appeared to be fraud on his account, he rather naively assumed that his being proactive would pay off, and kee...

PayPal Turning Out To Be a Liability Posted by Mike Vang on September 23, 2010 It seems that the ultimate global payment solution: PayPal is turning out to be a liability. In simple words, what PayPal does is that it lures customers through flowery statement. Once they're paying members, PayPal asks...

eBay Overstates Selling Prices in Search Results By: Ina Steiner In some cases, eBay is overstating the selling prices of items that have sold on its marketplace. The problem, which affects Completed Item searches, was revealed last month by an EcommerceBytes reader, but the apparent glitch has y...

Mon Apr 22 2013 12:17:37eBay Sees Dramatic Rise in Opened Cases Against Sellers By: Ina Steiner eBay sellers are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of opened cases filed against them by buyers, thanks to a major change eBay implemented as part of the Spring Seller Release. Similarly, eBay b...

LoL! You'll want to click through to check out this guy's other claims to fame. Jeff Gelles: Yanked by eBay, a merchant fights back The way Patrick Rodgers sees it, he has two primary locations for his business, which includes promoting Gothic and neo-medieval music, and selling collectible trad...

LoLz!From a place where truth is stranger than fiction.Need I say more?

Typical ebaY news... vigilante justice used to compensate for ebaY failures...eBay Members Scam Amazing Fantasy #15 Scammer {UPDATE]

Thu Aug 15 2013 14:29:49eBay Forces Sellers into Accepting Returns, Deja Vu By: Ina Steiner eBay sellers report they are being switched into what is supposed to be an optional program called managed returns, forcing them to accept returns from buyers for any reason and going against their shop poli...

(UK)New PayPal User Agreement Updates As of today there's an amended PayPal User Agreement. The changes are pretty minor and you probably won't even notice them, so nothing to worry about. (more at link)

eBay Announces 'Proactive Fraud Reduction' Policy By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com April 11, 2007 eBay announced a "proactive fraud reduction" initiative on Monday that extends one of its current Trust & Safety policies - an anti-counterfeiting initiative launched in Novembe...

Wed Sept 25 2013 22:35:51New eBay Billing Agreement and Missing Performance Data By: Ina Steiner eBay sellers are reporting problems with their seller dashboard and are also questioning a new billing agreement they are being asked to accept. On the Seller Dashboard, sellers are encountering a me...

Tamebay blog (UK, iow ebaY's testbed.) eBay remind sellers 14 day returns now mandatory

I'm pretty sure this would be against ebaY rules, as well as possibly state and/or federal laws. In at least one state, for sure this is considered a full blown firearm, under law. There have been numerous complaints about sellers banned fore attempting to list vintage toy cap guns, even with the red/...

Yet another case where proper customer service was only received after, and as a direct result of contacting media. This time a buyer. Be prepared to go to this length if you use ebay/paypal. (ahem, Bill me later too). For as you can see / have seen, this is not the exception, but the rule. Demonstrated r...

eBay Eliminates Purchase Details from Feedback System By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com October 17, 2013 eBay is making its feedback system less transparent by removing purchase details from the feedback page in a move that has already shocked some users who noticed the change start to roll out...

rotflmao! What part of ebaY does NOT strongly resemble the very definition of a criminal racket? smh . . . Thu Oct 31 2013 09:20:50eBay Warnings Indicate It Can't Keep Track of Seller Compliance Many sellers are reporting that eBay sent emails on Wednesday telling them they are out of compliance with...

Appeal court finds in favour of brothers suing eBay over a pair of pricey shoes MONTREAL - Quebec's appeal court has ruled in favour of two brothers who were trying to sue eBay for stopping their auction of a pair of rare basketball shoes they maintain would have fetched them a tidy sum. Brothers Kevin...

How Low can a Giraffe Go? Just happened to take another look at the negative feedback received by ebaY's cherished seller, toysrus They have an excruciatingly low 97.7% feedback rating, along with (at the moment) 104 negative reviews, and 54 neutrals. Those are what's known as "Bad Buying Ex...