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eBay fees, paying or not?
 

Hi,
If your eBay account is dead and you can "run away" with your money,
Do you still pay your eBay fees?

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Pay your fees

You used their services you need to pay their fees

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Pay the fees. You used their service to gain some profit, so you should award them.

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lol so if ebay or paypal owes people money, do they go out of their way to reimburse you?

I'm not condoning either way :) just throwing that out there.

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You would have paid the fees if they didn't limit you, so just pay the fees as if it never happened.

I owed around $500 on my last account. I even called PayPal to give them transaction numbers so I could refund the buyers who I couldn't send to after the account was limited. (because my shipping was going through pp at the time, so I couldn't create labels)

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If they limit my account there is no chance I'm paying my fees.

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maybe we should at it this way... If ebay bans us, then they clearly don't want our money.

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Here's an analogy:

If I'm a Mechanic and I fix your car, and I then tell you that I refuse to do any future work on your car.....does that mean you don't owe me for the current work I did?

Think about it.

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If you're a mechanic that is in the process of doing work on my car, and out of nowhere, you decide that I'm not worthy of your work, and you toss my car out on the street in the middle of that work, while throwing out ALL the work that I also put into that car, without a single care of how important that car is to my life, and STILL require me to pay you for your work.....

Now THAT would be a more accurate analogy. Considering that a good chunk of what I'd owe are listing fees, and you've just deleted my listings, maybe they can only charge me final value fees.

Oh and lets not forget, that a lot of times, ebay sends an email to all your customers, who then proceed to ask for refunds because ebay told them there is an issue with my account.

I'm sorry, but your analogy doesn't even come close to the reality of what ebay does to people.

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I'm Just curious, I've had ebay suspend a couple accounts in the past, I may have not shipped everything I sold yet or buyers see my account is gone & they freak out So I just refund them through Paypal Resulting in ebay now owing ME money, Never a lot $5.00-$80.00 that I can remember, But I've never had them refund me.

Has anyone had any luck or is there anyway to get eBay to pay back fees to you after a suspension??

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LOL at all the pretend do-gooders here.....

I guarantee not a single person here would pay their eBay fees if a stealth account they have got suspended tomorrow....

If your info is ⊗⊗⊗⊗, there's no reason to pay fee's on a suspended eBay account. There's no moral obligation to do so. If you want to pay it, fine, but no one is going to pat you on the back.

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Pay my fees because I used their service? Screw that @#$!.
I had my real eb/pp account restricted indefinitely and I had over 5 grand in my PP account.
They said I can withdraw after 180 days. (Is this even legal)
It was my main source of income so I was pretty much screwed. I didn't know anything about stealth that time.
I owed fees about $500. I would've happily paid the fees if they didn't take my money.
My credit is already fked up so I didn't really care lol.

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I suggest you read paypals TOA. Yes it is legal.

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I think people tend to forget that it's their own choice to sell on eBay using PayPal.

Pay fees.

PayPal could use that exact same excuse saying people leave accounts negative all the time so why can't we hold people's money?

It doesn't make sense is my point.

Your no better than them if you do exactly what you dislike about them.

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You know that for an absolute fact do you?

I have lost eBay accounts and I have always paid the balance and I would bet that a lot of other people do the exact same thing

Use their services, pay their fees. Its really simple.

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Apologies, James, I wasn't intending to call anyone here a liar. I should have said "No one here has any REASON to pay their fees".

Anyways, my point is, you can pay them or not. There's no consequence, good or bad, for doing so.

Personally, if they want to suspend me, the fees they lose is just part of the deal. Too bad, so sad.

If you pay your fees, great! I don't see why, but hey, it's a free world.

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Nuff said.

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If all stealthers decided not to pay thier ebay fee's it would make our jobs much hard.

Just pay the fees and be happy that you have the ability to open a new account.

Don't make it harder on your fellow members.

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Uh, how?

I'm pretty sure most people probably DON'T pay suspended account fees. I didn't even on my REAL account once it was suspended.

eBay isn't going to tank anytime soon. They may need to quit wasting money and start treating sellers better (we are the ones who pay the fees, afterall) but you won't see eBay going bankrupt anytime soon.

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If paypal and ebay are nice to me then I'll be nice to them. They **** me then i **** them back and then some.

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i only ever pay fees if the account is still good. if ebay suspends me then its their loss. once suspended you dont owe them anything.

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Pay them or donate them for a better cause.

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wouldn't pay if paypal was holding my money, not a chance. Not sure I'd even pay if they banned me to be fair as I wouldn't be happy with their service lol

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I think not paying fee's is probably why so many here get their PP limited. I've never had pp limit my accounts.
Think about it. If you don't pay fees then all your info on your account (ip,name,address, phone, photos ) is going to be blacklisted. Meaning anything you do that they can connect you to will be linked. Poor customer service ratings is one thing but if you're costing them a bunch of money that's another they're going to do everything they can to stop the person who's not paying their fees. So if you make a mistake, somehow linked accounts, it's going down. Plus in the long run not paying fees will make it much harder for the rest of us.

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That makes no sense.

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maybe you don't think it does but you can go ahead and keep listening to people who don't pay their fees and get their PayPal limited keeping their money for 6 months. it's never happened to me and I always pay my fees.

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Limited paypal is usually about the volume and/or the items you sell.

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Have to agree with Yankee here. I've NEVER had a PayPal limited AFTER an eBay account has gone done.

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Now that they separated its even more unlikely jojo
Point taken though.

jojo.. If you get suspended from ebay and have a dozen people screaming refund, cancel transaction and paypal disputes start because of ebay scaring everyone that you're now gone from ebay the last thing i care about is paying those ****s their $250 in fees.

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your arguement is practically the same as the arguement that stealing forces stores to raise prices when it isn't. because they have something called shrink. im certain paypal and ebay have a similar plan that saves them money in these situations.

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of course they have plans in place,
I'd still rather eBay be on the lookout for me because I have multiple accounts & not because I owe them money.

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They will find the accounts when you mess up not because they are looking for you or not looking for you. They are looking for EVERYBODY.

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That makes absolutely no sense.

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thats not how this works jojo.....thats not how any of this works...lol

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Standard operating procedure

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lol....Yankee and I don't see eye to eye on most things....but again, going to have to agree.

eBay isn't looking for you because you stiffed them on a hundred dollars of fees....LOL! Especially not on a stealth account. They write it off on their taxes and move along. They have WAY to many powersellers to give a crap about us not paying our fee's. Trust me, they aren't hurting for your pocket change. :FF:

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Fine guys, why do you think they give new accounts a 5/500 limit? Why do you think they are working so hard on identificaton with public records? Your making it harder on all of us.

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It's a combination of A LOT of things. A tiny part of that, might be people leaving ebay fees unpaid. But ebay has already suspended those people, and deemed them unworthy of selling on ebay. Do you at all think, that perhaps the reason for them being suspended , is THE reason why new accounts are giving 5/500 limit and they work so hard on identifying you in public records?

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You are all right. Me & other more experienced stealthers are all wrong.

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And i am not pretending to be a do gooder. I always pay my fees, i always make sure my pay pal straight. I always take care of my customers. Screwing the system just makes ebay & Pp more suspicions, more cautious, more stringent & overall harder to sell on.