Re: Can ebay "Steal" the money?
Some people here are providing misleading and incorrect advice about payments being eventually released.
THIS IS NOT HOW EBAY OR AMAZON OR MOST COMPANIES OPERATE ANYMORE!
Despite there being laws, legalities, and their own platform policies stating funds will eventually be released no matter what, or that funds will be sent off to your local government through an escheatment process, this is mostly false advice now days.
Platform like eBay and Amazon are trained to outright lie to you, break laws, and their own policies. How do I know this? from several years of experience/experiments.
Unless you file a complaint through your local financial complaints agency/department/bureau/ombudsman and go through the legal ways to document, dispute, and raise a valid claim through a 3rd party then in 80-90% of cases you will not see your funds released for failure to ID (but you generally will for account closures due to breaking seller policies).
This is because they consider you a fraudulent seller and will not release your funds until you validate and prove your ID to their satisfaction in most cases, because they know that in 99% of cases you will not take it further since your a BS seller or under a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ alias.
My advice, play the game smarter, don't keep your eggs in one basket, and try to be ahead of them every step of the way.
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