posted on June 18, 2001 05:46:35 PM new
Ebay is now offering us the option of giving them our bank account # to pay sellers fees. How much longer before this is mandatory? I can see where this is going. Someone completes a trasnaction, ebay determines it to be illegal with ebay listing or content rules, and takes money out of sellers bank account!
posted on June 18, 2001 06:24:21 PM new
OK since you bumped it I will ask what I wondered the first time.
Exactly what sort of fee would eBay want to charge after a transaction is closed and done due to a rule violation? Are they going to make a list of fines or what? They already have their listing fee and final value fee.
It would take some pretty strange rule changes. Do you think they will refund a customer?
posted on June 18, 2001 06:27:43 PM new
Ok, here's a hypothetical situation for ya!
Someone somehow evades ebays veros for a 3 day auction, or pulls off listing some nazi memoribillia. Or, perhaps they sell an entertainment ticket that doesnt comply with ebays ticket selling rules, but hte auction closes succesfuly. We can take this a step further and say it was paid via billpay. If its illegal, ebay can go into your bank account! Well they cant now, but thats where this is heading!
Even with your scenario, what are they going to take out of your Bank account and why? You've already paid the fees, and besides, if you have Billpoint, they already have your bank info for deposits.
posted on June 18, 2001 07:00:44 PM new
Im thinking taking the money out and giving to bidder...anyway, can billpoint do this, even if theres no fraud? Do they have the power to do this on an auction that is illegal by ebays terms? REverse the payment...?
posted on June 18, 2001 07:12:14 PM new
Can you say paranoid!!!
How come people automatically think the worst.
Ebay offers a way to pay Ebay fees and someone jumps up with wild assumptions that Ebay will be raiding our checking accounts. Relax Take A Breath It's Not That Bad
JB
posted on June 18, 2001 11:56:19 PM new
I think a more pressing concern is whether or not eBay has the proper Security Measures to ensure no-one get's your Account #'s, both Bank and CC.
Judging by recent eevents, I would ask for a full audit of eBay's capabilities before I'd hand over my Bank Account #'s.
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