[Milsurplus] PayPal on eBay.. Maybe Making a Fuss Does Help ?

[J Forster]

From:

http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2008/8/1220053744.html

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August 29, 2008
eBay to Expand Allowed Payment Services in 2009
By: Ina Steiner
Fri Aug 29 2008 19:49:04

eBay spokesperson Usher Lieberman said eBay would allow additional
payment services on its site next year. The company had announced
earlier this month a ban on all but PayPal, credit card merchant
accounts, ProPay and payment upon pickup in most categories beginning in
late October 2008.

But in January 2009, eBay will integrate all of the approved electronic
payment methods into eBay checkout. According to eBay's current Accepted
Payments policy, here's a list of approved methods:

Payment Services permitted on eBay: Allpay.net, cash2india, CertaPay,
Checkfree.com, hyperwallet.com, Moneybookers.com, Nochex.com, Ozpay.biz,
Paymate.com.au, Propay.com, XOOM

Here's what Usher wrote: "eBay is working closely with the other payment
vendors currently included in our Accepted Payments Policy to include
them in the permitted electronic payment methods on eBay.com in early
2009. To be included, they must meet fraud, information security and
uptime standards, and complete the needed product development work to
integrate into eBay Checkout. Only ProPay was able to meet these
requirements in time for the October payment changes. We hope several
others will meet the requirements by early 2009."

eBay is banning paper payments. However, provided the seller has not
solicited paper payments, they could - upon buyer request - accept them.

With regard to seller concerns over how eBay will enforce its ban on
paper payments, Usher supplied the following information from John
McDonald, Senior Director of eBay Trust & Safety:

When the payment changes go into effect in late October, a seller cannot
in any way solicit check or money order payment from a buyer. This is
considered "abuse of the payments policy". eBay will take action against
such abuse. One way we will detect abuse is from reports from buyers. We
will also monitor checkout completion rates for sellers, and this has
generated a lot of questions from sellers. Here are some clarifications:

* eBay will not automatically take action against a seller with a low
completion rate. We realize that there are many valid reasons for low
completion rates.

* We will investigate sellers with low checkout completion rates on a
case by case basis. Specifically, we will check to see if the seller is
soliciting check or money order payment from their buyers. If we don't
find any evidence of this occurring, we won't take action against the
seller.

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Interesting, if true.

FWIW,
-John

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