A little help with eBay's new payment system | Members help members

asce01 · 2025-12-02T23:27:12.921000Z

Hello everyone, since I’ve already read quite a bit here about the new payment system, but couldn’t reply in the respective article because I don’t have/had no reply field, I wanted to summarize everything I’ve figured out so far in this article to help others and to give eBay tips, in order to prevent unnecessary support requests. Additions from others are very welcome, and to the admins: please don’t delete or archive this, so everyone can see it here. Exception: if it gets out of hand, in terms of insults and the like! 1 : Processing time of the balance It is very easy to misunderstand what the information says. I haven’t tried monthly or weekly yet, but daily definitely does not work like that! With daily, you assume the money arrives, is processed briefly, and then paid out directly. So everything in one day. In reality, however, it takes three days in total! One day to arrive at eBay and be processed. One day to become visible to us, and then on the third day the money is transferred. eBay urgently needs to revise this, otherwise many tickets will come in with the subject “My money was not transferred”. 2 : Fees are hidden I had already wondered last time why I wasn’t transferred the full amount, since I never touch the balance for anything. I always pay postage that way. This time I was again not transferred everything, and when I did the math, exactly the same amount was missing as last time. After that I was about to write a ticket myself, until I got the idea to look at the last statement, and it said that the amount was a fee. But what this fee was/is for and how it is made up is not stated anywhere. At least I couldn’t find anything. This could be seen as a lack of transparency and lead to legal proceedings! Therefore eBay should act as quickly as possible and make this visible there, showing where and how these fees arise, as well as label them accordingly on the respective statements. 3 : The balance “discount” In my opinion, this discount is a farce! If I already have balance and want to buy something with it, I want to be able to pay for the item completely with it, as long as I have enough balance, and not just a maximum of 5%! Then it hardly makes any sense to have balance here at all. So this should also be changed as quickly as possible! And furthermore, it should be disabled so that when paying, the balance is selected by default and you first have to deactivate it. Otherwise, fast clickers may click and lose money, which could then also lead to tickets or, in extreme cases, legal proceedings. That’s my experience with the new system so far :). As mentioned before, additions are welcome.

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