Originally posted by: ctcsoft
Originally posted by: JujuFish
Originally posted by: ctcsoft
Originally posted by: mugs
What does the buyer being from Puerto Rico have to do with eBay holding the payment? If you weren't OK with eBay holding the payment in escrow, you shouldn't have sold on eBay at all.
Ebay just started holding payments on certain transactions not too long ago. They used to never hold your payments in limbo. Now they can whenever they want.
It bothers me more because I'm shipping to Puerto Rico which is REALLY far away and I'm risking being out my new laptop and not even having my money in hand.
If some problem arises, then if my laptop is in Puerto Rico and I'm fighting with ebay/paypal I'm running the risk of being screwed badly.
Not willing to take that risk.
That doesn't answer mugs' question at all.
Because if I knew ahead of time ebay would allow people from Puerto Rico to bid and win my auction then I wouldn't have sold it.
Even though I don't like ebay holding my payments, I'm atleast more accepted of them doing so when I'm shipping within the US to decent ebayers with feedback.
Now when I have more feedback than someone on ebay and they win my auction, you expect me to ship 1st and wait for my payment to be release.
Sorry but F-That. What stops a scammer from saying I shipped him/her a bogus laptop, returning a bogus laptop and me never getting any $$$$.
Ebay is all about the buyer.