Anyone else realise ebay / paypal only give you buyer protection for 45 days?

[Yosh]

***27th January to 31st March: 25% off your Final Value Fee when you offer free P&P on DVDs***

23 January, 2009 | 10:00AM GMT

From 27th January until 31st March 2009, when you offer free domestic P&P* in the DVD sub-category of the DVD, Film and TV category, we'll reduce your Final Value Fee by 25% for each item.

* Terms and conditions apply

Regards,

The eBay Team

Its not forced on you.

[joshwa]

Its not forced on you.

Then why wouldn't it let me put in my postage costs as £1.20? - it said P&P can no be more than 0.0p - it was forced on me, I know, I listed two DVDs last night, and could not specify any postage costs over 0.0p.

[Yosh]

Then why wouldn't it let me put in my postage costs as £1.20? - it said P&P can no be more than 0.0p - it was forced on me, I know, I listed two DVDs last night, and could not specify any postage costs over 0.0p.

I think you should contact Ebay, according to their above statement its not worded as if its forced.

Edit: [Insert swear word at Ebay] I think should definately mail them

[Zak33]

Its not forced on you.

it is.

Sair has two of DVD's for sale, and the option for postage cost was not there... so we've been forced

[Zak33]

here

As part of our efforts to allow members to trade on the most dynamic marketplace, we’ll be introducing some limits to P&P charges in select categories. All DVD listings are to offer Free P&P for domestic deliveries.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/maximumPP_FAQ.html

[Stoo]

I simply don't use ebay or paypal any more - problem solved

[NightOwl]

I've never had any trouble with PayPal (touch wood!) - I've used it to sell a few things via my website for quite a few years now and it's been a good system for attracting overseas customers. But I consider myself lucky that I have always had honest customers - I know it can be an utter nightmare when things go wrong.

As for Ebay, words cannot describe my utter contempt for that site. Buyer Protection? Don't make me laugh. I won't bore you with the details, it was more a question of principal than a big financial loss, but it was enough to open my eyes to the fact that the only thing Ebay cares about is making money, they pay lip service to their own T&Cs and don't give a fig about people getting ripped off, probably in their thousands, every day. A shame, really, because it was once a good site.

[Yosh]

it is.

Sair has two of DVD's for sale, and the option for postage cost was not there... so we've been forced

I think you should contact Ebay, according to their above statement its not worded as if its forced.

Edit: [Insert swear word at Ebay] I think should definately mail them

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