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Product had been listed on eBay: Yes Was stored in an eBay warehouse: No, eBay does not have warehouses. Had facilitated payment: Maybe, but eBay typically ju

by ROFISH 6y ago

Product had been listed on eBay: Yes Was stored in an eBay warehouse: No, eBay does not have warehouses. Had facilitated payment: Maybe, but eBay typically just links one Paypal account to another Paypal account. eBay does not actually touch the funds. (Paypal has been it's own separate company for awhile now.) Shipped it out in eBay packaging: Unless they're using a service, typically shipping is up to the eBay seller. So I doubt this ruling affects eBay.

cordite 6y ago
PayPal isn’t as much of a thing these days for ebay transactions
- 51Cards 6y ago
  It's not? I use PayPal for all my eBay transactions and what few items I sell (abeit rarely) also seem to be paid for via PayPal.
  - irrational 6y ago
    Yesterday I purchased the first thing in a long time from eBay. I was surprised that I could just use my credit card and no longer needed to use PayPal.
    - user5994461 6y ago
      It's going through Paypal. When the listing has Paypal, it allows to pay with a card without opening a paypal account. It's been a thing for more than 10 years, it's very well integrated, it's not necessarily transparent that the payment goes through Paypal.
thaumasiotes 6y ago
> Was stored in an eBay warehouse: No, eBay does not have warehouses. eBay used to have a service where you could take any random junk to their mall kiosk or a FedEx store and eBay would sell it on your behalf. That would pretty much require them to have warehouses. Is that service dead?
- rtkwe 6y ago
  They have a Consignment Center [0] but that only really seems to hook you up with on the the various "I'll sell your crap on eBay" that exist instead of doing it themselves. [0] https://pages.ebay.com/rcp/consignmentcenter/#/ https://pages.ebay.com/rcp/consignmentcenter/#/
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    Well, I wasn't just hallucinating: https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-drop-off-locations-coming-to-1600-fedex-office-stores/ https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-drop-off-locations-coming-to-... But the program does seem to be dead. I found some interesting forum discussion taking the opinion that eBay strangled consignment businesses by choosing to heavily discourage auction sales (as opposed to fixed-price listing). They did that because customers on average strongly prefer fixed-price sales, but I'd be open to the idea that this could be a case where giving the customers what they want turned out to be a mistake for the business. eBay saw themselves as competing with Amazon in the "buy things over the internet" space.[1] But by emphasizing fixed-price sales so much, they arguably made themselves much less distinct from Amazon. [1] I was surprised to learn this, as I had always thought of Amazon as being for buying things new and eBay for buying things used.
    - rtkwe 6y ago
      I think a lot of people didn't understand or know about how the eBay auctions worked [0]. I only learned about eBay being a second price auction, effectively, ages after eBay was a thing. Without knowing how the proxy system works doing an auction would be pretty frustrating because it'd look like you were usually instantly outbid. [0] At least the later version I don't know if they used a different scheme earlier. They must have because the sniping services that existed in early eBay don't really make sense with proxy bids.
- ek750 6y ago
  i hope this is available. i need a way to get rid of all my unused stuff
- 6y ago
pgrote 6y ago
> eBay does not actually touch the funds. They do now. They are in the middle of moving most of their sellers to a program called Managed Payments. eBay handles the payment processing through the program. Sellers do not receive money via paypal, but their own bank accounts. eBay batches the proceeds of the sales and ACHs the money daily M-F. The transition is ongoing, but the goal is all sellers with stores will move to it eventually. https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/managed-payments-on-ebay.html https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/ma...

by ROFISH 6y ago

cordite 6y ago

PayPal isn’t as much of a thing these days for ebay transactions

51Cards 6y ago
It's not? I use PayPal for all my eBay transactions and what few items I sell (abeit rarely) also seem to be paid for via PayPal.
- irrational 6y ago
  Yesterday I purchased the first thing in a long time from eBay. I was surprised that I could just use my credit card and no longer needed to use PayPal.
  - user5994461 6y ago
    It's going through Paypal. When the listing has Paypal, it allows to pay with a card without opening a paypal account. It's been a thing for more than 10 years, it's very well integrated, it's not necessarily transparent that the payment goes through Paypal.

thaumasiotes 6y ago

> Was stored in an eBay warehouse: No, eBay does not have warehouses. eBay used to have a service where you could take any random junk to their mall kiosk or a FedEx store and eBay would sell it on your behalf. That would pretty much require them to have warehouses. Is that service dead?

rtkwe 6y ago
They have a Consignment Center [0] but that only really seems to hook you up with on the the various "I'll sell your crap on eBay" that exist instead of doing it themselves. [0] https://pages.ebay.com/rcp/consignmentcenter/#/ https://pages.ebay.com/rcp/consignmentcenter/#/
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Well, I wasn't just hallucinating: https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-drop-off-locations-coming-to-1600-fedex-office-stores/ https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-drop-off-locations-coming-to-... But the program does seem to be dead. I found some interesting forum discussion taking the opinion that eBay strangled consignment businesses by choosing to heavily discourage auction sales (as opposed to fixed-price listing). They did that because customers on average strongly prefer fixed-price sales, but I'd be open to the idea that this could be a case where giving the customers what they want turned out to be a mistake for the business. eBay saw themselves as competing with Amazon in the "buy things over the internet" space.[1] But by emphasizing fixed-price sales so much, they arguably made themselves much less distinct from Amazon. [1] I was surprised to learn this, as I had always thought of Amazon as being for buying things new and eBay for buying things used.
  - rtkwe 6y ago
    I think a lot of people didn't understand or know about how the eBay auctions worked [0]. I only learned about eBay being a second price auction, effectively, ages after eBay was a thing. Without knowing how the proxy system works doing an auction would be pretty frustrating because it'd look like you were usually instantly outbid. [0] At least the later version I don't know if they used a different scheme earlier. They must have because the sniping services that existed in early eBay don't really make sense with proxy bids.
ek750 6y ago
i hope this is available. i need a way to get rid of all my unused stuff
6y ago

pgrote 6y ago

> eBay does not actually touch the funds. They do now. They are in the middle of moving most of their sellers to a program called Managed Payments. eBay handles the payment processing through the program. Sellers do not receive money via paypal, but their own bank accounts. eBay batches the proceeds of the sales and ACHs the money daily M-F. The transition is ongoing, but the goal is all sellers with stores will move to it eventually. https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/managed-payments-on-ebay.html https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/ma...