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> For a seller, I guess you either have to accept the risk, or get some kind of insurance. Or eBay pays the insurance cost out of the fees they charge.
by MarkMc 10y ago
> For a seller, I guess you either have to accept the risk, or get some kind of insurance.
Or eBay pays the insurance cost out of the fees they charge.
- seanp2k2 10y agoIt's hard to prove anything without some type of escrow service. It'd be cool if eBay offered such a service for an additional fee.
- 1_2__3 10y ago...are you joking or serious?
- Freak_NL 10y agoWhat's wrong with the notion of an escrow service? For high value items the extra protection may be worth it.
- Leynos 10y agoeBay are partnered with escrow.com to offer this service (which, I admit is different from offering it themselves, but it's there in that form).
- Qwertious 10y agoAIUI you just described Paypal, which they not only provide, but also make mandatory, and part of their mandatory fee pays for insurance.
- palunon 10y agoPayPal doesn't put the item in escrow.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoHardly. An escrow service would be a neutral company that would intercept items and returns to make sure they were the correct item and in the correct condition.
- 1_2__3 10y agoEbay offered escrow services for years prior to purchasing and integrating PayPal. I wasn't trying to be rude, I was trying to figure out if you were doing the old "if only <such and such> existed" when it actually does/did exist.