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That's what I do; I register an account... and start listing right away. It asks for my seller information after my auction is ready to go, and that's it. Very weird. I used Gmail I think. I'll try another account in a bit.

thats exacly how it used to be for me untill yesterday.

Well, I just created a new account a few minutes ago and I got the same warning you got leonid5000.

It doesn't seem to affect accounts created before yesterday.

Have you tried faxing receipts leonid5000?

eBay is being evil... geez

ok here we go im not crazy after all. Aspkin please contact me in privet.

What can we do next?

We're working on it. :)

I knew this was coming soon..I told everyone this was going to happen soon. They are gonna want SS#'s next by the new year watch.. You all betta not depend on Ebay

****ing soothsayer Chris, you're killing eBay! :p

coudlnt you then create a ⊗⊗⊗⊗ account in like canada then?
register a business (to forward your mail) in a canadian city
register a phone number in same canadian city

hmmm oh yeah.. bank account / credit card...that i dont know.....

Its time for google or someone to bring some competition to ebay.

You guys better open an account at a different site or get your own ecommerce site and pay for Ad words or something like I do.

Or only accept money orders until 10 feedback and then offer Bidpay. Or pray someone sues ebay to allow more types of payment options.

You can make a Canadian account with a US virtual card, no problem. I've done it before..

See the thing is, Ebay doesnt care if they get sued, because the money they will make from breaking the law will out do the cost of lawsuit. So say ebay makes 100 million from breaking the law in past 6 months and gets sued for 40 million, they will pay that with no problem becuase they will will make 60 million profit..

What happens if you offer both Paypal and Creditcards on a new account? Will the message still appear?

This is what does not make sense to me. I would think a merchant account number is as confidential as a CC#. Why would eBay have you enter you CC number digitally so a human could not get this information easily but have people fax the merchant information. This does not sound right. Wouldn't you think they would have people fill out a secure online for for this sensitive information. I think eBay is all wet on this one and will get screwed for this. Are you all actually going to trust your merchant account information to a perfect stranger. I see scams happening from this. I do not doubt this is happening but can't believe this faxing will continue....I just hope most new ebayers tell ebay to screw off. This will hurt eBay in the end.

they are not asking to send them merchant account number in the note.. They just say send us
recent merchant processing statement. On most of this statements it dont say the number. Not on the ones i have seen. And then they say While we confirm your merchant credit card account.. Iven if you give them real merchant number there is no way legally they can confirm it.


To confirm that you can support this process, please fax a copy of your most recent merchant processing statement to (866) 309-6493.
Please include your eBay user ID, phone number and email address in the fax so that we can contact you.
While we confirm your merchant credit card account, you can continue listing items on eBay with PayPal as the payment method. PayPal is convenient to use and offers buyers and sellers protection against fraud, chargebacks, and theft of financial data.

If you don't have a merchant account, you wouldn't even have a statement to begin with, but you can probably find one to copy on the internet.

What if we use google checkout as are merchant im sure ebay will be thrilled that we use there number 1 emeny and surely they will let use sale after they see we use google :rolleyes:


Some one needs to post a img of what ebay is asking use to send

you can find sample of this paper on internet. There are many different ones out there.. Also aspkin send me one sample. Idont know if we want to post samples on this forum as some one from ebay may be watching us

Hey- OK, something must of changed this morning- think they are Gearing up fo the Volume.
(I for one have over 15 accts loaded with auctiva pics + descripts- just need to go to the library + hit send)-
They limited 2 of my ppal accts today.
> Faxed info- called on 1 acct- said would have to wait till friday as with holiday.
>> GO around on this merch stuff--- Tick box for PPAL- then put in like (if your user name is Homer1234, use Homer1234@paypal.com, the listing will go through. then place note at bottom of checkout , we will send invoice at end of auction.
> end of auction- send your own invoice from wherever- only maybe 2 out of 100 transactions in last couple weeks did folks send the funds to the @paypal address- i simply explained- server error.
> I asked them to please CANCEL your pyt- as i will never receive it. They did, and i then got the funds.

Jonas, if you look on page 5 you will see that their is already screenshots

Once again Leonid already posted screenshots on page 4 or 5