Hi
I have been selling on ebay for 5 years or more but recently sold from an account that had only 9 sales recorded - my funds are frozen for the two items i sold after the new policy was introduced - bear with me 🙂 - so i am going to report them to ACCC or Fair Trading following the link posted above - so yeah - we shall see what happens. Funny cos i came on here after yelling long and loud at a poor ebay customer service person about ebay and paypal illegally holding my money - i asked if they would pay me interest on the money - my money - that lthey had sitting in their bank account earning interest for 21 days. I kept getting the same blurb so it was futile to argue with him. Very glad i came to this forum.
What i would like to know is - how many complaints does it take before the australian financial authorities stop them doing this? Surely they can't just keep treating it on a case by case basis.
I saw a similar outrage over the "enforcement" of Paypal as a method of payment a few years back - and look how things are now - it was ruled that they couldn't force people to pay via paypal and yet somehow now most people do - attrition methodology. I'm inclined to think there is something hidden behind all of this - some reason we haven't twigged to yet.'t
The cry always goes up - why isn't there an alternative - I am sure there could be if we all put our heads together! It was the same with Meetup and fees - where are the cluey, tech savvy but ideologically committed ppl hiding in all this?
