Slightly off topic. You may have noticed Ebay has had a header running constantly for several months about the split off of PayPal and changes to the user agreements. If you carefully read these changes you will find PayPal has authorised on your behalf (the seller) Ebay to deduct any and all payments it says it is due from your credit card thru Paypal when ever it wants without reference or direct approval from yourself.
This is not the case with other payment facilitators such as Paymate, Eway ect., This is the underlying reason why they are removing them from the Paypal platform where ever they can. However in Australia they are confined from doing this by their undertaking to the ACCC and have to allow the use of alternative providers. The catch with this is that Ebay does not have to intergrate these other companies into their system.
It is inherently unsafe for a seller to allow unfettered and free access to their accounts thru Paypal. A way to ensure this does not occur is to remove yourself from the Paypal system when operating thru Ebay. But to still qualify for the safe payments requirements by only using other facilitators such as paymate or Eway who are not bound by agreements to Ebay such as Paypal is.
The PayPal system of payment collection on behalf of its clients is clearly conflicted and does not operate to protect the seller in regards to using it to operate thru the Ebay platform. Regards to all Norm
