topic Re: Getting paid in Selling

Getting paid

spanklinda — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:18:56 GMT

Item sold, buyer happy and posted positive comment. Registered buyer and seller since 2012. EBay taken payment of fees immediately. Payment still in hold. No excuse for this. And sadly there is nothing one can do. You are at the mercy of eBay. It has soured the whole transaction sadly. I guess the message here is ‘be prepared’

Re: Getting paid

sandypebbles — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:25:29 GMT

It is what you agreed to when listing the item

Same rules for all sellers

You do not get special treatment because you registered in 2012

Yes, there is something one can do

That is really, actually read what you ticked you read and agreed to

Hopefully you have registered for Managed Payments and been verified/given the go ahead to start selling

Otherwise the money has nowhere to go

And no, I do not work for eBay

I registered in 2005 and would be subject to the same hold on funds next time I sell again

Re: Getting paid

repentatleisure1952 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:26:20 GMT

All infrequent sellers are subject to payment holds.

You can go to "Help " on any eBay page & read about Payment Holds.

Re: Getting paid

gutterpunkz05 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:29:12 GMT

I guess the message here is ‘be prepared’

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Yep, If you had read and understood the terms of listing and managed payments, then you would have been fully aware that as a new/infrequent seller, your funds would be held for 30 days, with a % possibly held for 60 days.

If you contact ebay CS and politely ask for your funds to be released early, you may be lucky, but it is solely at ebays discretion.

Re: Getting paid

imastawka — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:29:28 GMT

Payments on hold | eBay

Re: Getting paid

repentatleisure1952 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:32:36 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Payments on hold | eBay

Thank you stawks... I am aware of that.

I thought the OP could do their own legwork.

Re: Getting paid

imastawka — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:38:46 GMT

Sure, but if they could do their own legwork, they wouldn't be coming here.

I like to make sure they have no excuses.

Sorry, I should have addressed the link to the OP.

Re: Getting paid

countessalmirena — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 10:00:30 GMT

OP, are you actually registered as a new seller? As in, are you fully verified with both your photo ID and your bank account?

See https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/getting-paid/registering-seller?id=4792 for all of the details.

Re: Getting paid

sz_1984 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:59:41 GMT

Unfortunately I'm having this issue now where my funds are being illegally held for 1 - 2 months, *after* paying the $246 seller fee and completing the transaction. Received perfect feedback, it's under eBay's payment management system which I have used on a number of occasions (items higher value than this one), where the funds were released within 3 days (PayPal prior to that). When I raised the possibility about them illegally laundering my money (based on the feedback I received from Wednesday last week until now) which led me to believe that, they swept it under the rug faster than a house fly. It's just annoying that someone sat there and said 'I know, let's use HIS money to launder' lol.

Personally, I don't think I'll be getting the money for this item so I'll be going to York Street, or George Street, whichever is their head office, at some point.

Re: Getting paid

imastawka — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:04:56 GMT

Good luck going to York/George Street.

Your answer lies in the link which I already gave -

Payments on hold | eBay

Re: Getting paid

sandypebbles — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:08:01 GMT

And what will you be doing when you go to head office?

You have one recent feedback as a seller

One

Why is it the same rules/policy that apply to every other 'new seller' in eBay's eyes should'nt apply to you?

I understand that you think you are special

eBay does not

You say you have used Managed Payments, so you are well aware of the terms you agreed to when you listed the item

Re: Getting paid

sz_1984 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:16:49 GMT

It just doesn't make sense to pay someone ~$250 dollars to keep your money for 1 month, maybe I'm being too logical (Sellers with no issue and perfect history I'm referring to), I'd understand if it's a first time seller.

Re: Getting paid

imastawka — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:24:02 GMT

I guess you didn't read the link (I again posted) - in full.

Read the part about infrequent sellers - which you are.

Also included in that link -

High priced items or unusual selling patterns may lead to transaction holds for up to 30 days to help us ensure that buyers don't have any issues with the order

Re: Getting paid

sz_1984 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:28:29 GMT

I read the link, I was only going by my previous dealings. Yes, one? regardless of whether overall / previous history is taken into consideration. Like I said maybe I'm just being too logical on how transactions are made.

Re: Getting paid

sugar249 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:34:12 GMT

I guess you didnt bother to read the fine print when you listed the item.

Money laundering.. LOL

Illegal . LOL

Re: Getting paid

sandypebbles — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 05:43:40 GMT

You want to claim it is illegal and money laundering , why have you not reported it to the police

Hard to take you seriously when you just post such things on the member to member forum but you have not made an official complaint to your local police station

Why not?

Yes, the policy does apply to you

And you agreed to it when you listed

Re: Getting paid

domino-710 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:07:33 GMT

' too logical ' - guffaw.

Re: Getting paid

sz_1984 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:38:53 GMT

Because naturally, you want to gather information in order to determine if that's the case beforehand, right? I also wrote 'possibility' of it.

Your responses are as pointless as a screen door on a submarine, you need to understand there a number of reasons why I wrote what I wrote and YES, I agreed to your terms and conditions.

Re: Getting paid

countessalmirena — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:25:17 GMT

OP, sandypebbles is not (to the best of knowledge) an eBay employee, contractor, board member, executive, influencer etc.

The T&Cs referred to are eBay’s.

If you’ve not read the Help pages referring to Managed Payments - every one of them, in detail - you may have missed that unless a seller is selling regularly in quantities that eBay consider adequate, without a break of some months, without a significant change of item type, then eBay will class that seller as a “new seller” all over again. It isn’t a case of start selling the occasional item, build up to a certain level, then you’ve reached the benchmark and you can relax.

eBay are all about risk mitigation and to that extent their bots monitor and analyse continuing seller behaviour. For example, sellers who sell regularly, those with hundreds of sales each week or more, do not pose the risks of hijacked accounts which an irregular seller or long-dormant eBay member would do … while well-established sellers with a good history of selling an established inventory do not pose the risks of fraud or mismanagement which a new seller would do.

Re: Getting paid

imastawka — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:27:13 GMT

@sz_1984 wrote:
Because naturally, you want to gather information in order to determine if that's the case beforehand, right? I also wrote 'possibility' of it.

Your responses are as pointless as a screen door on a submarine, you need to understand there a number of reasons why I wrote what I wrote and YES, I agreed to your terms and conditions.

You know you're not communicating with ebay, right?

This is a member to member forum. Ebay neither reads nor responds here.

And I'm sure, if you've been fully verified for Managed Payments you've read all this?

Payments | eBay.com.au

No case to answer.