Seller Account - CC Not Needed and other tips

[zymo]

There appears to be some confusion on email addresses, I will attempt to clarify. When you create a listing, Ebay requires you to enter an email address to receive the paypal payment. This email address must be the same as the email address you used as the confirmed email address for the ebay account. This email address does not have to be linked to any paypal account. Ebay does not attempt a link to a paypal account. This allows you to do a "sweep" at a later time.

Lets say you create 5 Buy it Now items. After 3 of the items sell, you decide you want your money and you add the email address to a paypal account and do a sweep to get the money out. You now have 2 live auctions, the paypal payment address in the remaining two auctions are now linked to a paypal account. You will want to modify those auctions and change the paypal payment email address to another email address that is not yet linked to a paypal account. The ebay system requires you to use the registered email address when you create a listing but will allow you to change the PP payment email using the modify auction. This allows you to sweep when you want and prevents the 21 day hold. If you don't change the email addy in the auction any paypal payment will go to the now linked paypal account with a 21 day hold.

If you create new auctions using the same USERID, when you create the auction, you will have to use the original linked email address, then you can immediately modify the auction with the new email address.

To easily create email address, I own several domain names. As an example, lets say I own domain zymo.com (I don't really own it) It is registered through godaddy.

I create a single email address for the domain called jeff@zymo.com I designate this email address as a "catchall" email address so all email to the domain will be forwarded to that one email address. When I am on ebay or paypal or wherever, when I need a new email address I just "create" a new email address lets call it bill@zymo.com Any email sent to that email address will end up in the catchall account. You do not have to go to the domain and create an email address whenever you need one, you can just invent email addresses at will.

[noel123ie]

This is a brill thread

Zymo will this work for paypal uk as well I wonder?

Noel

[sunnylhy]

What happened if i already put the same email address for registered seller account and paypal. If I change it right now, it will trigger paypal to limit my account???

[Exeneva]

No, it shouldn't. But any already listed items will not be able to change, as far as payment address is concerned.

[zymo]

Exeneva

You can change the PP payment address at any time as long as no bids and more than 24 hours left. I do it all the time. Just do a "revise" item and change the paypal payment email addy. I did several this morning. I still use unregistered email addys and then just add the email address to an existing PP account. Never gotten a PP hold yet doing this.

[brokebackebay]

You don't think continually transferring funds from catchall email addresses into the same pp acct on a regular basis won't draw some attention? Or that your selling id changes the payment email address almost every time they list something, after it is listed?