I recently sold a video card on EBay, to my surprise, I get a notification:
"Your payment is being held, and will be held up to 21 days. Ship this merchandise immediately, a positive feedback from the buyer could hasten release of funds" or something to that effect.
So I look into it and Ebay has enacted a set of 4-5 rules wherein they can hold your money up to 21 days. Included are things like "Under 100 positive feedback" (I have 94-0-0 spanning 9 years- LOL) and "Risky category" (computer parts is one).
Here's what I think is going on:
They say "It's to make Ebay safer!".
I say "LOTS of transactions could fall into their criteria, and they want to use the money for short term investments to profit off of it"
I don't know if this is now random, or every transaction falls into this if it is filtered by their software.
I do know that when a guy robbed me, and admitted it to PayPal, last year PayPal wouldn't cancel his account. They said I need to work it out with him, so I know they don't give a rat's ass about anyone's safety.
Beware.
"Your payment is being held, and will be held up to 21 days. Ship this merchandise immediately, a positive feedback from the buyer could hasten release of funds" or something to that effect.
So I look into it and Ebay has enacted a set of 4-5 rules wherein they can hold your money up to 21 days. Included are things like "Under 100 positive feedback" (I have 94-0-0 spanning 9 years- LOL) and "Risky category" (computer parts is one).
Here's what I think is going on:
They say "It's to make Ebay safer!".
I say "LOTS of transactions could fall into their criteria, and they want to use the money for short term investments to profit off of it"
I don't know if this is now random, or every transaction falls into this if it is filtered by their software.
I do know that when a guy robbed me, and admitted it to PayPal, last year PayPal wouldn't cancel his account. They said I need to work it out with him, so I know they don't give a rat's ass about anyone's safety.
Beware.