eBay Adds Check as Payment Option to Seller's Surprise

by: The End

There you go.
Now add Postal Money Order.
And bring the take rate back down to 3%.
THEN I will come back.

by: BatmanOfOz

Oh, look....Another 'glitch!'  This confirms my decision to let my 600+ listings end and Not relist them.  After 20+ years, it is no longer Fun, and not worth the time and effort. I only wish I Hadn't ordered the box of 100 album mailing boxes Before I made the decision to quit!
And I doubt that I will have Any desire to even bother as a Buyer, once I am gone.
I noticed way too many 'glitches' with checked or unchecked boxes that were Not my doing, over the years.  There was No Way that I could Trust ebay with MY listings, and I was forced to list and relist Each and Every Item Individually, to Make Sure that it was the way that I wanted it.
No more.
Bye.

by: pace306

Please leave GLITCHbay alone!

They are busy cooking up Q4 numbers and can’t be bothered with trivial things like accuracy!

by: The End

this one move is proof Someone at Ebay really cares.
Now BRING IT HOME the rest of the way.
You'll be Really glad you did.
I mean, Cheering and a Ride on Shoulders, glad.

by: iheartjacksparrow

Would I take checks for the items I sell? No, and only because of the delay in mailing. You make a sale, then have to wait for the check to arrive, have to deposit it in the bank, wait for the check to clear, and then mail. If I sell something I want it out of the house and on its way as soon as possible. Then you have the problem that the buyer might "forget" to mail the check, so you have to chase the buyer for payment. And since I can only make deposits on Saturdays, if I would get a check on Monday, I'd have to wait almost a week to deposit. So much easier with electronic payments.

by: The End

Add Postal Money Order,
and bring the take rate back down to 3%.

by: The End

Electronic payments NEEDLESSLY takes OUR money.
Laziness costs.
I prefer to do the leg work and recapture MY MONEY from "Made for Lazy Sellers"
electronic middlemen.
Make the lazy middlemen HOMELESS. They deserve it.

by: Shanna

While Amazon has hundred of on staff IT professionals, making 6 figure salaries, to keep its platform working 24/7/365, eBay pays overseas contractors $2/day.

You get what you pay for.

by: ThebigR

When ebay went to paypal only no more checks cash or MOs that was a almost instant overnight 35% sales loss,but that was 16 years ago and those old schoolers are for the most part in the ground and the few survivors could care less about adding to their collection. It was nice to time it so 3 or 4 grand was in your mailbox on Friday and made for some fun weekends...  

by: ThebigR

and just a side note in the 7 or 8 years checks cash and MOs were allowed I never lost one red cent and its mind boggling to think of how many 1000s I lost with paypal...  

by: zeek6228

Checks are the most secure payment method for buyer and seller. If seller is a theif buyer possibly has some recourse. If buyer is a scumbag with a history of cheating people, they most likely don't have a checking account. Win-win.

Also check forgery is a serious crime. My 12 year old used my credit card without my permission is an innocent mistake.

by: johnny

For the Love of God.......eBay needs to go out of business. The FTC should investigate eBay.  

by: Eagle

Never forget the ole saying, "Checks in the Mail!"

by: The End

Never forget the ole saying ,"PayPal is holding my money".

by: ChristyM

This is not a glitch,  you have to set it up in your payment preferences.
eBay requires us to accept what they offer under managed payments.
We can offer Cash On Pickup, Check & Money Orders. I have attached a link to an images so you can view what is says

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yiRALhQcxBfyY4Tp7

by: Gumball

I would not take checks. Even when they allowed checks, I did not take checks because if they bounce, the bank charges a fee that is often several times more than the item sold for. I would take US Postal money orders.  

by: Mazdaman

We'd NEVER take checks; bounced checks cost us dearly, and that's not what we're in business for!  We will take USPS MOs through our website only for those who don't have credit/debit cards, but they must contact us first to have the "Payee" and other info explained to them.

The issues in eBay don't surprise us; eBay has been "losing" listings for decades now.  Worse, in our opinion, is that they "lose" photos, always seeming to end up with only TWO photos remaining when they REQUIRE three photos minimum!  But the problem is you never know where or when they've lost some of your listing photos, as they have no automatic check on this.  Oh, they'll tell you if you happen to stumble upon THAT PARTICULAR LISTING, but otherwise you're left in the dark as a seller.

IMO, eBay has laid off so many staffers that they don't have the minimum needed to run their business, fix the bugs (overseas IT) and more, so problems and bugs last forever.

The slide started in 2008 with Donahoe handing over the keys to buyers as he botched up the feedback system.  Buyers now know they run the place.

We have a guy currently who peeled off the label from his Priority Mail box, so cleanly that he pulled the red ink from the box's printing.  He then claimed he got nothing but the label - in his P.O. Box!  Then he stuck it on another box with had a DIFFERENT label on it, and tried to claim non-receipt...and he even tried ANOTHER, DIFFERENT box to claim it was on THAT box!  He's running a scam, it seems, but eBay doesn't have enough people to actually "investigate" - or even ANSWER THE CUSTOMER SERVICE CALLBACKS!

by: NYSteve

...and can anyone figure out why after getting deposits in my bank account thru MP for the last 6 months, i have to confirm my account with two microdeposits?
does that make any sense?

wouldnt you know they mangled that up? after 5 days waiting for EBAY to verify that , they say i have to do that again....

maybe i do have 50 minutes to fill out a survey (that would be ignored anyway)

by: The End

Paper payments are a welcome American Option here in America.
Anti paper payments is anti American.
This is a war.

by: The End

I see Ebay stock is Crrrrrashing so,
THEY BETTER GET ON THOSE ROLLBACKS.