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Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

This is, without doubt, the biggest pile of factually incorrect horse poo I have ever seen on this forum. Considering Stevebills has made over 2,000 posts, that is saying something. :shocked:

Last stealthi just made was 0/0 allowance and while bidding will only let me bid on 2 items at a time but says if I get out bidded on one of the other 2 items I bidded on I will be allowed to bid on this item I tyres this on few different auctions and all said the same about bidding this was only a few days old account my other 4 stealth a are working perfect

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

When did you make this stealth?

The last one I made was last week and that was standard 10/650

Will maybe make a couple today to see if there has been a seismic shift in policy.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

i got a 0 allowance, spoke to ebay then increased it, listed item and got banned lol

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

0/0 has become a lot more frequent recently as well.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

EBAY REP:
Please be informed that this is process is being applied to all newly registered and I do apologise for the inconvenience it has cause you on your end.
EBAY REP:
I will provide you the steps on how you will be able to request for your selling allowance.
EBAY REP:
However, if the steps will not work. You will have to go through a phone verification with our Selling Allowance Team, xxxxx.

This balls keeps being put into live chat conversations as well

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Hi,

Does anybody know what is involved in this 'phone verification'?

Thank you

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Sometimes it's a few questions on what you're selling and where it's from, sometimes it's a case of sending in docs.

This may be sensitive info or may be common knowledge, but I was chatting to a customer service rep and when they say 'give me two minutes to review your account', they forward your details, item you're selling and question answers to a 'policy expert' (their words) and they decide manually if you need to send in documents or if you can have a selling allowance.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Probably they start checking credit score via credit check agencies like experian ,equifax etc ..
Btw -if you open PP and ebay with real person with good credit score your money on paypal are not hold for 21 days .

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Oh really....and you heard that where or is that another load of speculation.

Yes, definately a load of bull.

Also, you've just admitted to identity theft. That is not what this forum is about!

This is a very odd and concerning post.

Would you care to cite your sources on these two subjects?

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

I used my own real details! That why I know they don't hold the money this is not speculation Callidus this is real experience .
One question,why do you attacking me ? I am trying to help here . :argue:

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Not attacking anyone - it is very concerning when you're making a post about using real info. Using 1 set of your own real details does NOT mean that this happens, you probably got lucky!

eBay are NOT using equifax or any credit agencies.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

maybe I was lucky but I don't think PP or ebay work on Luck .

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Just because you got ''lucky'' on your account does not make your statement true.

99% of accounts always have the holds. Paypal does not trust you more than the next person.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Bummer
I have not got one of those in a while I have been getting alot of 50 item and a few 1000 item a few 5 and 10 items

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

you are in the USA... we are in the UK. Different rules.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Do you have a source you can provide that backs up eBay and PayPal using credit reference agencies?

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

I am waiting to see this source as well..

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

Got more chance of Obama showing his 'real' birth certificate. :pop2:

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

PayPal clearly say they do this in their Privacy Policy, since eBay and PayPal share information, eBay will use PayPals assessment to establish seller limits, I believe that is how it works:
https://cms.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?c.../Privacy_print

Information about You from Third Parties
In order to protect all our customers against potential fraud, we verify the information you provide with the "Payment Processors" and/or "Credit Reference and Fraud Agencies" listed in the table under the section "Disclosure to Third Parties other than PayPal Customers" below. In the course of such verification, we receive personally identifiable information about you from such services. In particular, if you register a credit card or debit card or bank account with PayPal, we will use card authorisation and fraud screening services to verify that your bank or card information and address match the information you supplied to PayPal, and that the card has not been reported as lost or stolen.

If you send or receive high overall payment volumes through the PayPal Services, or if as a merchant have limited selling history, in some circumstances we will conduct a background check on your business by obtaining information about you and your business, and potentially (if legally permitted) also about your directors, shareholders and partners, from a credit reference or fraud agency such as Dun & Bradstreet, as listed in the table under the section entitled, "Disclosure to Third Parties other than PayPal Customers" below. If you owe us money, we may conduct a credit check on you by obtaining additional information about you from a credit reference or fraud agency, to the extent permitted by law. PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to periodically retrieve and review a business and/or consumer credit report supplied by such credit reference or fraud agency for any account, and reserves the right to close an account based on information obtained during this credit review process.

If you use your PayPal account to sell items, we may also collect public information about your business and your behaviour on social media platforms (such as the e-mail address and the number of “likes” and “followers”), to the extent relevant to confirm an assessment of your transactions and/or your business, including its size and the size of its customer base.

We may also collect information from members of the eBay Inc. corporate family or other companies (subject to their privacy policies). If you are sending transaction related communication on PayPal’s or eBay’s conflict resolution platforms to your buyer or seller, we may collect such information in order to assess your transactions and any risk associated with your activities, as well as for fraud detection, prevention, and or remediation of fraud, or other illegal actions or to detect, prevent or remediate violations of policies or the applicable user agreements.

Re: What's with the 0 Allowance ??
 

We've all read the ts and cs, and every change is pored over on the forum

The fact is that PayPal don't run the details through the credit and fraud agencies at account creation - I've created several accounts in my real details and have never seen searches in my credit files.

PayPal and eBay may well use the agencies when they are chasing bad debts etc, but we aren't talking about that here.