Ebay ban western union transfer and sending cash

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Permitted on eBay
Sellers may offer to accept PayPal, credit cards including Mastercard/Visa /Amex/Discover, debit cards and bank electronic payments online for eBay purchases. Sellers may also offer to accept bank-to-bank transfers, often known as bank wire transfers or bank cash transfers, and the online money order service BidPay. Sellers may accept COD (cash on delivery) or cash for in person transactions. Sellers may offer to accept personal cheques, postal orders (including BidPay), Banker’s drafts, certified cheques and other negotiable instruments.

Not permitted on eBay
Sellers may not solicit buyers to mail cash. Sellers may not ask buyers to send cash through instant money transfer services (non-bank, point-to-point cash transfers) such as Western Union or Moneygram. Finally, sellers may not request payment through online payment methods not specifically permitted in this policy.

[directhex]

hm. no nochex.

[TeePee]

Because ebay own paypal, and woul like everyone to pay the huge fees involved.

[autopilot]

Yeah, but to be fair so many scams involve western union. I think its a good thing personally and about time.

[XA04]

Well if I ever buy a car on ebay, I'll be sure to pay them with COD's..

[Stringent]

Many a scam has been done with Western Union. I sold my car on eBay!

[Twigman]

This policy does not affect any payment method commonly offered on eBay today.

So it doesnt affect Western Union then??
COntradiction imo.
Western Union really isnt that bad. I have used it with no problems.

[jon bda]

Well if I ever buy a car on ebay, I'll be sure to pay them with COD's..

[MD]

I wish they would ban paypal - they still havent given me my moneh back lol.

No but the whole western union, whilst they ban it, its not REALLY going to mak a difference, all they are really doing is saying 'if you file a complaint and the words western union appear in the complaint then we will file it and ignore you'

LOL, they never have officially accepted Western Union so there really isnt a change.

At the same time, they are unlikely to approve NoChex, seeing as thats a paypal competitor

[TeePee]

Under the guise of protecting people from fraud, ebay removes their competition from nochex, who offer a better, safer and cheaper method than paypal.