Paypal & their e-cheques

[peridot55555]

I just had another Paypal e-cheque bounce from a lady with 100% positive feedback - it seems to be the buyers who have to be reminded to pay.  Why can't we block e-cheques?

Every other person/company can, but we cannot block if it's a payment to eBay.

Isn't a bouncing cheque fraud - whether it's a normal cheque or an e-cheque?  Or is it more than one bounce that is fraud?

It looks like I'll might have to issue 2 unpaid strikes out of 3 sales in the last week. 

[*sparklz*]

All buyer will have 100% feedback as they can not have anything less unless they also sell and have got a neg feedback.

Sellers can not leave negs for buyers hence the 100% for all buyers.

All you can do is open the non payer dispute after 4 days and close it 4 days later and add them to your BBL and put the blocks in place for the non payers.

To put these blocks in place hover your mouse over account in your my eBay page and from the drop down click on Site Preferences then go down the list till you see Buyer requirements and to the right of that click on show then click on edit. From there you can put in place the blocks you want, to stop those you want to block from purchasing from you

[extra-keen]

Sparklz has good advice. Those blocks are very important to protect yourself and other buyers in the future who have their blocks in place.

Just aside - I have had very little trouble with e-cheques of the hundreds I have received only 2 have bounced - one buyer ended up with a strike the other was immensely appologetic, payed a direct deposit and has purchasedt from me again with no trouble.

It is very annoying though, hope it works out for you and I hope you get lots and lots of paying buyers soon!

[phorum_junkie*]

To date in well over a decade of using Paypal I have never had an echeque bounce although I have had the odd one that has taken an extra couple of days to clear. If it happens I would first contact the buyer as there have been posts claiming that Paypal have cancelled payments when there has been no reason, I don't give it any more credence than the cat bid, not me but I would give the buyer the chance to re make the payment before proceeding like any other unpaid item case.

[peridot55555]

Thank U all for your replies.

I have received 4 e-cheques over the past few months, 3 of them have bounced - 2 have paid then by Paypal without an e-cheque, one of which was quite apologetic that she'd made a mistake.

I have buyer requirememts in place - I did have a couple of buyers blocked as well, but they seemed to have dropped out at sometime.

I did write to the buyer of the miniature book, she said she'd have the money on Thursday at the latest.

That's a bit strange, as I read in a post somewhere (some weeks ago) that a buyer said that to one of the sellers on the board, when they were having trouble with someone paying.

I noticed on my sold list that this item has postage free now, but when U go into the description it definitely says there's postage extra (as it should have) - maybe another glitch?  It has only happened since the e-cheque shemozzle.