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Seller Payment Email trickery?

21ladyluck — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:02:43 GMT

Got an email from eBay telling me that

" credit/debit card declined eBay's attempt to automatically deduct the amount due"

Yes, it was really from eBay. So I checked my credit card and everything was fine. No reason for it to decline anything.

So I manually went in and paid the bill via eBay's system with my credit card. Went through just fine.

Rereading the email I noticed the following

"As a reminder, past due accounts may be restricted from buying or selling until payment is received.

Say goodbye to credit card finance charges by signing up for Direct Pay, the easiest way to pay your eBay seller fees To sign up, go to www.ebay.com, click My eBay at the top of the page, sign in with your eBay User ID and password, click the "Seller Account" link (beneath My Account in the left navigation menu) and follow the instructions for updating your payment method."

So my question to all of you ...

Did you get an email like this when you paid your last seller fees? Do you suspect as I do that eBay wants us all to switch to direct deposit instead of credit card? Maybe eBay doesn't like paying the credit card fees.

It would be interesting to know how many sellers were told their credit card rejected the eBay bill.

Pam

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i-love-my-sheep — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:25:33 GMT

My fees come out of my PayPal account and if that is empty, it comes out of my linked savings account. That was how I set it up.

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clarry100 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:50:40 GMT

Same here. very easy.

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phorum_junkie* — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:43:01 GMT

Me too, I can't see the point of withdrawing funds from Paypal only to pay the money back to ebay.

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bsal6160 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:46:22 GMT

I'd be looking at the email more closely. WHy did it come from "ebay.com" and not "ebay.com.au"? May be a scam?

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i-love-my-sheep — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:03:26 GMT

@bsal6160 wrote:
I'd be looking at the email more closely. WHy did it come from "ebay.com" and not "ebay.com.au"? May be a scam?

I'd be checking the headers to see if it is real. As bsal said, it could be a scammer. DO NOT click the link!!!

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cherry*135 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:09:16 GMT

No, never seen that before. I too, have ebay fees taken out of my Paypal account. (defaults to savings, but I always leave enough in there for fees) I would think eBay prefer to take them that way.

You just made me think, though I lost my debit card and have just received new one (with different numbers & expiry date) I will have to update my payment details on a few places.. because payments will get rejected.

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cherry*135 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:16:12 GMT

My ebay ---> seller account ---> choose automatic payment method

Choice is:

Paypal

Direct Credit

Credit Card

Perhaps eBay are encouraging those who pay by CC to change to Direct Credit, although why not Auto payment by Paypal as their first choice??

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haolove13 — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:18:27 GMT

SCAM ALERT

Do not click any link in any email.

And if you are with ebay.com.au you should not click on an ebay.com link.

This could be the first wave of scams from when your account was hacked along with everyone else.

And on a practical sense why would Ebay encourage you not to add to their commisssions with paypal being taken out of the loop?

Ebay giving away money ????

come on put the glasses on.

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chezzy — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:29:46 GMT

Another questioning the ebay.com (American) link. Mine also come out of paypal. If I received an 'odd' email like that the

first thing I would do is 'mouse over' (NOT click) any links in the email - quite often it will show up a link unrelated to ebay or paypal.

If it appears suss I make sure all headers are showing (check your email as to how to show this) and then forward it off to the spoof department of ebay or paypal! They can/will investigate and the headers give them helpful information. They will probably send back a response containing some helpful advice also.

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davewil1964 — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:57:54 GMT

In a practical sense paying from Paypal to eBay for fees generates nothing for eBay. No commissions apply , and they own Paypal. Even if they didn't, no commissions are charged by eBay for fee payments.

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bbwspares — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:58:06 GMT

I also have my fees taken from Paypal, I always make sure that if i get an email, Spoof or not, from Ebay, it usually shows up in my Messages tab on Ebay aswell, thats how i know which emails are legit and which ones are Spoof.

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21ladyluck — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:29:39 GMT

This was NOT a scam email. Like you I never click on links in an email.

So I checked the mail IN my eBay account. It had the same thing so the email was real.

My point is that the email IMHO was trying to get me to pay with Direct Deposit instead of VISA. Yes, I know it's easy to do it in PayPal and I used to do that. For reasons I won't go into here, I use VISA to pay eBay.

BUT ... eBay said that my payment was rejected and they would try again in a few days. That was followed by a warning that I could lose me account, and so on. All of which I knew.

Concerned I checked my VISA and there was nothing wrong with it. I tried paying eBay again with VISA and surprise it went through in seconds.

NOW here is my original question ...

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Did anyone using VISA to pay eBay get the same "your payment was rejected" email? Is this eBay's attempt to push VISA payers into Direct Deposit payments?

Pam

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bigbrickshop — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:36:38 GMT

We pay with VISA auto payments and didn't receive any email.

Maybe there was some glitch at your bank at the time eBay tried to do the transfer.