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lacey:
has anyone seen this?

http://my.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyMessagesDetails&messageId=m26929981238&View=MyMessageDetails&CurrentPage=MyeBayMyMessageDetails&FolderID=0&SourcePage=MyeBayMyMessages&MyMessages2.Filter=&itemid=0&SortOrder=ASCEND&SessionId=0&GotoPage=1&MyMessages2.Period=Last122Days&Column=Received&SubmitAction.Show=x

*Brum6y*:
If that's in your 'My Messages' folder under your eBay ID - then no-one can see it but you (unless you give them your logon details... :devil: )

As for the subject to which I believe you are referring, then you will find this of interest... http://www.ozroundtable.com/index.php?topic=2363.0 ... in the 'Round Table'.

*wheels*:
Lacey, here's the link from Inside Selling

New accepted safer payment options for sellers

http://pages2.ebay.com.au/Hub/InsideSelling/Safer_Payment_Options

From 14 July 2010, eBay’s Accepted Payments policy will be revised to include two new accepted safer payment options, giving you an increased range of payment methods to choose from.

The revised policy will require sellers to offer one or more of the following three safer payment methods to buyers:

   1. PayPal
   2. Paymate
   3. Merchant credit card

surf-inside:
I haven't read the policy other than the marketing material.  How are these new methods supposedly safer?  A buyer can still chargeback on his credit card.  and we know credit card companies usually favor the buyer, if not always.

Not sure about Playmate but it sounds pornographic.  Or maybe its Paymate? Either way it conjures up images of the stacks of magazines in my bathroom.

Figures that Ebay would accept other forms of payment just as I am ready to nail down the Paypal security gaps and give users the ability to find out what their protections is and how they need to ship and who to use in order to stay compliant with loophole-ridden Paypal.

But, what do you expect from a company that bought its fraud software from a chinese company for 169 million. 

I will have to look at these policies and their pros and cons before making an informed judgement about risk and reward.  Its obvious that Ebay is trying to increase sagging sales. 

Surf

*Brum6y*:
The thing I noticed about the three alternatives is that they ALL provide for buyer 'charge-back' claims - and I can understand that insisting there be at least one of those allows any buyer to be able to pay via a means that facilitates that.

It doesn't mean a seller can rest easy, because there is always the possibility of a scammer trying it on, but the difference with Paymate and merchant cards is that they have demonstrated a more ethical and diligent approach in reviewing such claims.

That will certainly put off a lot of potential scammers - because PayPal make it far too easy.

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