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How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:20:50 GMT

How can I list an item for sale when I don't want to accept credit card as a payment option?

Thanks for your help.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

*crikey*mate* — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:24:54 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
How can I list an item for sale when I don't want to accept credit card as a payment option?

Thanks for your help.

To list anything on eBay you must offer one of the designated safe payment methods.

If you don't want to use merchant credit card facilities, then you may also choose between PayPal or PayMate.

You can also offer other options as well.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:40:31 GMT

@crikey*mate wrote:
@this-way-up wrote:
How can I list an item for sale when I don't want to accept credit card as a payment option?

Thanks for your help.

To list anything on eBay you must offer one of the designated safe payment methods.

If you don't want to use merchant credit card facilities, then you may also choose between PayPal or PayMate.

You can also offer other options as well.

Thank you for your speedy reply.

Merchant credit card is obviously credit card. Paymate is credit card only. Paypal offers different options but includes credit card. So Paypal is the only one that offers anything other than credit card.

I have no problem with safer payment methods. So maybe if I refrase the question... Paypal is the only designated safer payment method of those offered that must be used that offers payment other than credit card. So how do I list an item for sale and accept Paypal but not accept credit card ?

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digital*ghost — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:59:07 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:

I have no problem with safer payment methods. So maybe if I refrase the question... Paypal is the only designated safer payment method of those offered that must be used that offers payment other than credit card. So how do I list an item for sale and accept Paypal but not accept credit card ?

It's not possible.

It is possible to have a PayPal account and not automatically accept credit card payments, but on eBay you have to accept however the buyer chooses to pay, so there's no way you can offer PP and decline credit card payments.

I'm surprised you want to know - I thought you requested eBay close your account in protest...I fugured that meant you weren't interested in listing on the site. o_O

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

k1ooo-slr-sales — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:01:12 GMT

You could try stating "e-cheques only" in your description, but this won't stop buyers using PayPal with Credit Card funding the purchase

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

davewil1964 — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:06:50 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
@crikey*mate wrote:
@this-way-up wrote:
How can I list an item for sale when I don't want to accept credit card as a payment option?

Thanks for your help.

To list anything on eBay you must offer one of the designated safe payment methods.

If you don't want to use merchant credit card facilities, then you may also choose between PayPal or PayMate.

You can also offer other options as well.

Thank you for your speedy reply.

Merchant credit card is obviously credit card. Paymate is credit card only. Paypal offers different options but includes credit card. So Paypal is the only one that offers anything other than credit card.

I have no problem with safer payment methods. So maybe if I refrase the question... Paypal is the only designated safer payment method of those offered that must be used that offers payment other than credit card. So how do I list an item for sale and accept Paypal but not accept credit card ?

I'm sure this was all gone through a couple of weeks ago. The answers aren't going to change.

I thought you were leaving?

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

annies_fancy_dress — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:07:16 GMT

You can only say YOU don't have a merchant facility, but PayPal wil accept C/C on your behalf at the customers discretion, if you have a business account. I don't think you can stop it altogether.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:08:17 GMT

@digital*ghost wrote:

It's not possible.

It is possible to have a PayPal account and not automatically accept credit card payments.

That only applies if you have a "personal" Paypal account....and one cannot list an item on eBay if one has a personal Paypal account !

You say "It's not possible". Are you saying that credit card is compulsory ?

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:09:56 GMT

@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:
You could try stating "e-cheques only" in your description, but this won't stop buyers using PayPal with Credit Card funding the purchase

Thanks...But that would breach eBay Policy 🙂

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

davewil1964 — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:12:46 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
@digital*ghost wrote:

It's not possible.

It is possible to have a PayPal account and not automatically accept credit card payments.

That only applies if you have a "personal" Paypal account....and one cannot list an item on eBay if one has a personal Paypal account !

You say "It's not possible". Are you saying that credit card is compulsory ?

Yes. YEs. YES.

We've been through all this.

But if you accept Paypal and use paypal-compliant postage then you will be protected by Paypal from credit card chargebacks. Of which there might be a few, given you've advertised your antipathy to accepting a payment method used by billions of businesses world-wide. Even through a third-party who will protect you from most abuses of the system.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

digital*ghost — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:14:36 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
@digital*ghost wrote:

It's not possible.

It is possible to have a PayPal account and not automatically accept credit card payments.

That only applies if you have a "personal" Paypal account....and one cannot list an item on eBay if one has a personal Paypal account !

You say "It's not possible". Are you saying that credit card is compulsory ?

Can't...or shouldn't?

I did, although admittedly that was a couple of years ago now, and I figured out pretty quick it was a lot easier just to upgrade to a premier account than go in and manually accept payments that were funded by CC.

Why don't you just make it easier on the forum and instead of posing questions designed to get you an answer that can then justify and prompt your next "plan of attack", and just come out and say what you want the forum to do / know / say / whatever.

We can argue semantics all day about whether credit cards - per se - are compulsory, but we both know already that all the safer payment options involve credit card payments in one form or another and a seller is bound to accept such a payment if the buyer pays that way, so please....save us all a bunch of time.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

*crikey*mate* — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:19:59 GMT

I don't own a credit card and i have used Paymate this year when I bought something without reading the description properly and only realized that the seller did not offer PayPal until after I had committed to buy.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:20:18 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:

But if you accept Paypal and use paypal-compliant postage then you will be protected by Paypal from credit card chargebacks.

Paypal does not say the seller "will" be protected...That is what you are saying !

But that is not the question...The question is how to list an item on eBay and not accept credit card?

The answer has been given above..."It's not possible".

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

*crikey*mate* — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:20:59 GMT

@digital*ghost wrote:
@this-way-up wrote:

I have no problem with safer payment methods. So maybe if I refrase the question... Paypal is the only designated safer payment method of those offered that must be used that offers payment other than credit card. So how do I list an item for sale and accept Paypal but not accept credit card ?
It's not possible.

It is possible to have a PayPal account and not automatically accept credit card payments, but on eBay you have to accept however the buyer chooses to pay, so there's no way you can offer PP and decline credit card payments.

I'm surprised you want to know - I thought you requested eBay close your account in protest...I fugured that meant you weren't interested in listing on the site. o_O

short protest.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

davewil1964 — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:55:10 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
@davewil1964 wrote:

But if you accept Paypal and use paypal-compliant postage then you will be protected by Paypal from credit card chargebacks.

Paypal does not say the seller "will" be protected...That is what you are saying !

But that is not the question...The question is how to list an item on eBay and not accept credit card?

The answer has been given above..."It's not possible".

Correct! Give the teroll a cigar!

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

craycrayshoelady — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:02:17 GMT

It will also prevent any credit card disputes... It all seems dodgy to me

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this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:28:23 GMT

@preloved_pretties wrote:
It will also prevent any credit card disputes... It all seems dodgy to me

I must have missed something...How excatly do you prevent a credit card dispute ?

A buyer pays with credit card. Then gets the item. Then asks for a "chargeback"...Where is the dispute ? There is nothing the seller can do. There is nothing eBay can do. There is nothing Paypal can. If the buyer files for a "chargeback" the seller loses the item, loses the money and maybe gets Neg Feedback as a reward... Where is the dispute ?

The ONLY way to prevent credit card disputes and credit card fraud is to NOT accept credit card payments !

Anyone that disputes that fact, is most likely engaged in credit card fraud themselves... !!!

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

craycrayshoelady — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:40:17 GMT

@this-way-up wrote:
@preloved_pretties wrote:
It will also prevent any credit card disputes... It all seems dodgy to me
I must have missed something...How excatly do you prevent a credit card dispute ?

A buyer pays with credit card. Then gets the item. Then asks for a "chargeback"...Where is the dispute ? There is nothing the seller can do. There is nothing eBay can do. There is nothing Paypal can. If the buyer files for a "chargeback" the seller loses the item, loses the money and maybe gets Neg Feedback as a reward... Where is the dispute ?

The ONLY way to prevent credit card disputes and credit card fraud is to NOT accept credit card payments !

Anyone that disputes that fact, is most likely engaged in credit card fraud themselves... !!!

Lol. You would prevent this by not accepting credit cards. Isn't that the topic of this discussion? Maybe I missed something.

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

this-way-up — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:58:53 GMT

@preloved_pretties wrote:

Lol. You would prevent this by not accepting credit cards. Isn't that the topic of this discussion? Maybe I missed something.

That is the topic exactly !!... So how do you do that on eBay ?

The answer was given..."It's not possible"...You cannot list an item for sale on eBay and not accept payment by credit card.

In case some one else can give another answer...the question is - How to list an item and not accept credit card as a payment option?

So far the answer is...You can not !

Re: How Can I List An Item For Sale When...

*crikey*mate* — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:03:42 GMT

why does that worry you?