How to avoid EBAY fees, also how not to pay them after suspension

[cp2120]

Hi, well this is my first new thread as I just became a member today. I have been selling on ebay for over 5 years and was a power seller. I wanted a new account so I was selling some items on my boyfriends account until my new one was up and running. I wanted to sell items with buy it now and needed 5 positive feedbacks before I could list items as buy it now on my new account. So everything was fine and up and running with my new account and I got suspended. My old power seller account, my boyfriend's account and my new account have all been suspended. On my boyfriends seller account the fees are about $600.00 and unfortunatly his credit card is stored on his account. I tried to sign into his account and go to his seller's information and change it, but because I am no longer a registered user it won't let me change it. I just don't want them to charge his credit card $600. Any advice or ideas would greatly be appreciated!:o

[mantisinc]

Your best option is to file a chargeback on the payment when ebay bill the card. Other than that, you can close down your CC account which would be far to much hastle.

[cp2120]

Thanks for the information. I just feel bad as it is my boyfriends credit card, his bank debit card actually! ugh...

[cp2120]

when they give you the option to send a check or money order for ebay fees, if you chose that option will it give you some time to get the money and pay the fees?

[Lisa B]

You should mail them a money order ASAP before they try to charge your BF's card.

OR

Your BF needs to cancel his card or report it as stolen or do a chargeback as AMC suggested.

[cp2120]

thanks. what happens when ebay goes to charge the fees and the card is not active? do they send you a bill or report you to credit bureaus

[Lisa B]

eBay will just send you emails requesting payment. They never reported me to the credt bureau but PayPal (same difference) sent me a bill demanding money.

I never paid them though.

[jscan]

i admire anyone who get away with not paying eBay and paypal

[suspended2008]

If your paypal account is not suspended, or use any valid paypal account, you can make payment for the ebay fees. As long as there's zero fee owed, ebay doesn't make any charge to the credit card, so pay all the fees before they make a card charge.

Under My Summary, click on 'My Account', then click on 'Pay', it lets you know the amount of ebay fee owed if any.

[suspended2008]

Have many units of same product? Then use Dutch Auction. Don't list each unit in seperate listings, that costs more fees. Charge as much shipping as possible without causing complaints, ebay doesn't charge Final Value Fee on shipping. Set the starting bid price or Buy It Now price as low as possible. Do not use features, unless the items are high priced and profitable to do so, otherwise keep away from most features. No subtitle. No second category. Run 5 days or more. Sometimes it's better and cheaper to pay little extra to run for 10 days than 5 days twice which doubles the fee.

Can't decrease PayPal fee because it is based on the total payment amount.

[gotcats]

Last year my first 5 year long Ebay account was suspended and Pay[pal froze my account w/800.00 in it. They said when all my recent transactions had cleared, they would release my $. Never happened.
The next Ebay acc was suspended and Paypal froze over 1000.00!
Now I am getting Collection agancy letters for 1800.00!!! The amount they stole from ME!
And of course I cannot get into the account records to prove anything.
And yes-this showed up when I pulled my credit history.
Nazis!!

[beus]

Originally Posted by yoshis

ok so i got booted from e-bay again!! I have a bank account on my paypal account and e-bay is trying to charge it for my fees. How many times do they do this? Bank says I can't block it. I still have cash in my paypal account but not enough to pay the fees (but why would I). I just want to get the cash out an scoot!! any ideas? Anyone else had this happen?

Go to your PayPal account>Profile>Pay List and check it if you see anything active from eBay. If you do just click on it and cancel the agreement. After that they shouldn't be able to get any money from you.

[dollybaby]

ive had letters of debt collectors for paypal, i owe them £500 but they can go and swing for it, ive got no intention of paying them what so ever.

[Cleo]

Maybe this is a stupid question - but since this my first suspended account you guys can let this one slide.

I was just wondering since my account is now suspended are eb going to automatically deduct my previous months fees from my credit card or will they just leave the fees until I 'choose' to pay for them?

C

[ebayaintstupid]

On my first account I reported my credit card stolen the day they sent me the suspension notice.

They charged it days later for 3 times what I owed them and it was rejected.

Jerks.

[GreenBean]

Oh, ebay will so take the owing fees! No, they do not really want to 'wait until you are ready'. Nice if they did. 'Jerks' is a nice word there.

So what you must do is cancel any direct debt arrangement and remove credit
card. Speak to your bank and ensure that the bank know you want ebay to
have no access to any of your accounts.

[Lisa B]

Yep, what GreenBean said, eGay will take the funds in the blink of an eye.

Why the heck would they WAIT for you to decide to pay them when they have all your banking/credit/PayPal info to get their money.

In my case, eBay did something to my account thus preventing me from removing ANY of my bank accounts and credit cards. I was screwed.

I had no money to be had so they kept trying repeatedly to remove the money from my bank account and I kept getting hit with those $25 NSF fees so I ended up gouing to my bank and explained what was going on and my bank had me fill out some form blocking eBay/PayPal from removing money from my bank accounts and cards.

I had to pay a small fee like $15 but it was well worth it because now my bank was on alert and stopped any and all attempts at those crooks from trying to withdraw funds from my accounts.

It’s a small and yet sooooo sweet victory for me

[411guru]

Say, one of my accounts is suspended. Had been for 1 week now. It was setup for auto pay via paypal. They have yet to take seller fees from paypal. Why?

[Lisa B]

ePay sends an invoice notification at the end of the month then I believe there is an additional 7 days before that will try to deduct the money from your account.

Have you received the invoice from eBay yet?

If so, then they will try to deduce it within 7 days frm the date of sending you that email.

If you don't want to pay them at all and your account was suspended, then remove your banking/credit card information from your eBay account ASAP, if eBay prevents you from removing them then go directly to your bank and do what I said in my post above.

Cut em off at the knee caps and they get nada!

[411guru]

I tried on ebay but the option to disconnect paypal from auto deduct but its gone. I remember it was there last december.

[Cleo]

It won't let me view anything on ebay until I "resolve any issues". Pfft Why the hell would I resolve any issues if my account is suspended indefinitely. Stupid ebay!

[oscar_98]

Originally Posted by Modee

I've never authorized EBAY to collect fees from my PayPal.

Question: those who have, is there a way to stop them from doing so? (Short of draining the PayPal account itself and cutting off all sources of PP funding.)

Log into paypal click on profile - in the financial information section click on Pay List (if your ebay account is set up for auto payments it will be listed here) click on the link for the ebay account and then click cancel.

I have also seen the ebay auto pay listed under the recurring payments link so make sure you check both places and cancel both if needed.

My ebay account was set-up for auto pay, after suspension I canceled the agreement in my paypal profile and so far ebay has not even tried to take anything from the paypal account. (not that I left anything there for them to take)