Ebay putting funds 'on hold' grrrrr

streethawk

Remarkable!

Just sold a couple of pedals - the money was earmarked to pay for an item I'd won the night before. 

Both buyers have paid, but the money is 'on hold'. No idea why, paypal/ebay says it might have something to do with me proving I've sent off the items, but I always add tracking info to my ebay sales, they should know I post on time. I've got 100% feedback and sold plenty of items before.

So now I've got to scrabble around to pay for the item I won, which is a bit of a hassle. 

Not bothering with it again. 

ICBM

Yet another reason I haven't sold anything on Ebay in years and won't again.

Bogwhoppit

ICBM said:

Yet another reason I haven't sold anything on Ebay in years and won't again.

ditto

Hootsmon

must be a reason....wont be you, but the other guys

streethawk

hootsmon said:

must be a reason....wont be you, but the other guys

I dunno. I've checked their feedback and there's been no complaints.

Had a search on the net and this has happened to lots of people with lots of trades behind them, it's just plain daft.

johnnyurq

Did EBay not start doing this to users who had below a set feedback level?

It might have only applied to newbies who have joined in the last few months though.

guitarfishbay

I've bought two microphones via paypal/ebay in the past two weeks and both times I've been asked if I want to use some 'pay later' thing which automatically holds funds for a set period/possibly until I confirm I've received the item.

Personally I think it is BS and I've not used it, but I'm almost certain it got used against me once recently because the funds showed as received, but held until a specific date, but that the item was ok to ship.  There was an issue with it that time and I had to complain to paypal to get the funds released as they did not automatically release from the hold.  Luckily I was in no rush for the funds otherwise I probably would have said something to the seller.

I have recently seen ebay listings with 'I do not accept withheld paypal payments' disclaimers at the bottom so it is definitely a problem.

streethawk

Well that's just great, GFB.

Why can't we just have nice things!

axisus

guitarfishbay said:

I've bought two microphones via paypal/ebay in the past two weeks and both times I've been asked if I want to use some 'pay later' thing which automatically holds funds for a set period/possibly until I confirm I've received the item.

I get no choice on that!?!? Everything I've bought for the past 6 weeks or so is on that and I can't seem to change it.