Ebay starting holding funds, old seller

[slyvukai]

Hi, been selling on Ebay account more than 10 years, feedback 1000+, power seller. did not enroll into managed payments, maxed out quantities before deadline, now receiving payments to Paypal until now no problems so far.
Lately when receiving payments I started to receive message: PAYMENT FROM THIS SALE IS EBAY HOLD. Money will be held for 21 days and automatically will move to my balance then. Paypal showing almost all sales on hold. This never happened, no open cases. Anyone has any experience on this why this is happening?

[agent006140]

why not ask Ebay?
are you selling on Ebay USA?

[murdered_by_ebay]

switching to MP is the best way to go , I am sure they will stop all sellers from accepting paypal soon

[slyvukai]

US Ebay, I think I cannot contact Ebay because first thing they will say is to register for MP which I dont want yet. So just checking here if anyone has similar situation. I dont have problem with temporarily holding funds, just worried that they might not release them later.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by murdered_by_ebay

switching to MP is the best way to go , I am sure they will stop all sellers from accepting paypal soon

MP is being rolled out hard so quite likely

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by slyvukai

Hi, been selling on Ebay account more than 10 years, feedback 1000+, power seller. did not enroll into managed payments, maxed out quantities before deadline, now receiving payments to Paypal until now no problems so far.
Lately when receiving payments I started to receive message: PAYMENT FROM THIS SALE IS EBAY HOLD. Money will be held for 21 days and automatically will move to my balance then. Paypal showing almost all sales on hold. This never happened, no open cases. Anyone has any experience on this why this is happening?

Yes, this happened to me as well. Just out of the blue nonsense.

It'll usually go away and back to normal eventually. So don't fret it.

[PepsiCoin]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

Yes, this happened to me as well. Just out of the blue nonsense.

It'll usually go away and back to normal eventually. So don't fret it.

you can still use paypal? wow how lucky

[slyvukai]

Thanks SaiJin, good to know.
PepsiCoin yes, still lucky, dont know how for long

[rsot]

Originally Posted by slyvukai

Thanks SaiJin, good to know.
PepsiCoin yes, still lucky, dont know how for long

All the best - hopefully for quite a bit longer

[phaz0rz]

I discovered this morning that Paypal has starting holding my payments from eBay as well on an account with about a 3yr selling history. Perhaps Paypal assumes only shady people haven't switched to MP at this point. :/

[murdered_by_ebay]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

I discovered this morning that Paypal has starting holding my payments from eBay as well on an account with about a 3yr selling history. Perhaps Paypal assumes only shady people haven't switched to MP at this point. :/

it is ebay causing the holds not paypal

[phaz0rz]

No, it's Paypal holding the payments. It's a standard Paypal payment hold as seen on new accounts or accounts Paypal deems risky.

[murdered_by_ebay]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

No, it's Paypal holding the payments. It's a standard Paypal payment hold as seen on new accounts or accounts Paypal deems risky.

my various paypal accounts used to show on a regular basis that the 21 day hold was caused by ebay and executed by paypal

they specifically wrote that ebay let them know that the funds needed to be held.

[dune]

It's in the new PayPal agreement contract. They have stopped the "funds now" and say are going to change it (don't know if for the better). More info from PayPal official soon ...