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Originally Posted by aspkin They're meant for the initial setup. After that with eBay, you're able to pay your balance from your Paypal account via the "One Time Payment" option. |
Just an FYI... you may want to reconsider using Paypal for paying ebay fees in light of PayPal sharing ALL their information w ebay.
But this is more worrisome:
I recently tried to open a FedEx account with a prepaid card (2 different ones, actually). Although the prepaids worked everywhere, including ebay, Fedex claimed the card could not be authorized. Using a real credit card worked fine for the FedEx acct. These were $100 gift cards, so I don't think FedEx was doing a trial authorization for more than $100, to fail them.
This begs the question:
Does a credit card provider communicate an extra bit (literally, a binary bit) of information when veryfing a card, which says this is a prepaid card, or a card with certain limitations?
The ramifications are serious.
If the majority of all new account registrations are done with a real credit card, and folks generally accept eBay's urge to use the bank account for seller fees, than only 1% or less of registrations may show a "limited type" card, combined with an insistence on using the CARD for future eBay fees.
If that's not a flag, then I don't know what is.
And ebay knows this is a methodology suspendees are forced to use...
And eBay has a T&S team currently bent on using statistics like
"1% of all sellers cause 35% of all mischief", and
"2% of sellers provide such a poor experience for the rest, they need to be cleaned out"
I'm afraid that if you register with the scenario above (your only choice, really), you will forever be under the microscope and scrutinized by T&S thugs.
Just food for thought.