posted on February 5, 2001 11:27:51 AM new
I have 2 id's on eBay... One is my bidding account and the other is my selling account. I also have a PayPal account, but my default e-mail address under PayPal matches my seller e-mail account on eBay. So when I buy something on ebay and I pay using my Paypal account my payment from Paypal shows up that it is from my seller e-mail account. So when I buy something I always have to warn the seller that I will be paying by PayPal but the PayPal payment will show up from my seller e-mail address. In my PayPal payment I always remind the seller that this payment is from my bidder name. Every seller I buy from has never had a problem with this as I always personally e-mail the seller after I win the auction and give them my name and address, so when they do get my PayPal payment which has my seller e-mail address attached to it, they always know it is me and verify that my PayPal address matches the address I give them in my private e-mail to them.
Now... the problem! (I should have known this would happen) I placed a bid for some goods with my ebay bidder account, the seller was trying to charge me $26.55 to mail an item that cost $4.80 to ship. It was a dutch auction and the seller had hidden handling fees and secretly planned to charge this fee no matter if one person won all the items in the auction or just one. I reported them to safe harbor for having excessive handling fees (ebay sees this as a seller trying to avoid paying ebay their higher commissions on the end price of the item.) After they were reported to safe harbor... Safe Harbor found that that the seller was charging excess handling fees and voted in my favor on the matter. They warned the seller and informed him he cannot do this. They also told me if he files a NPB on me to contest it and they will omit it. eBay has sided with me and the seller refused to lower his handling fee, so they agreed with me about not paying this seller.
Now all of sudden since I have made this seller mad since he feels he can charge $26.55 for S&H on a $4.80 S&H item and I reported him. I now all of a sudden get a newbie bidder on my eBay auctions under my seller name. This person is new (just signed up a few days ago) I think it is him... so I was wondering if I could do a user address request on him before the auction ends tonight (if I can find the link, as I cannot find it in eBay site map anymore) If this bidder is from the same state as the nightmare seller I had problems with... I would bet that it is the same guy trying to get back at me.
Should I do an address check on this new eBay bidder? and where is the link for requesting this? I can't find it these days on the eBay website...
I planned to e-mail the bidder with a small explanation if it does not match up or does not seem to be the nightmare seller I just had problems with.
Please give me your thoughts on if you think I should request the bidders personal information from ebay before the auction closes. Just to give myself some insurance that it not my nightmare seller I just got done dealing with.
Thank you!
BTW... I am not brigette on Ebay (not my seller name or my bidding name)
[ edited by brigette on Feb 5, 2001 11:30 AM ]
posted on February 5, 2001 12:00:54 PM new
reddear...
Thanks... They sure make it hard to find this place on the eBay site.
While I was waiting for thoughts from other AW users... I did check out if the person has made other bids. Sure enough they have been, so my guess is that I was being paranoid. I am glad I did not do it. The person has won some bids and actually bidded on things before contact was made before my nightmare seller and I. So I doubt it is him and nothing more than a new person on eBay that happened to bid on my auction right after all this mess happened.
I wish there was a way to get around having to have 2 Paypal accounts when you have 2 eBay accounts (one for bidding and selling). I guess I could keep changing my default e-mail address in PayPal. As some of you know PayPal lets you register several e-mail addresses but when you send payment it always sends it out from you default e-mail address (which is my seller e-mail account and I never bid with my Seller eBay name anymore) When you have several e-mail addresses listed with Paypal you can recieve money under any of these names.
Does anyone have any advise on how to set this up so that it will work best for me? I don't want to have to open a second Paypal account.
posted on February 5, 2001 12:02:14 PM new
I'd email safeharbor that you don't want this person bidding on your auctions, and copy the seller. Then if they do bid you can have them suspended (you can note that in the mail you send so that the seller is sure to understand that).
Asking for contact info for someone "from the same state" isn't suspicious enough (in my mind) to justify potentially ticking them off and/or having them report YOU to safeharbor for inappropriate behavior (not likely, but still possible). Statistically they are unlikely to be the same seller, and even if they are they may get outbid as well, and either case ends your problem.
posted on February 5, 2001 12:03:20 PM new
why don't you just have two Paypal accounts---as long as one is a business account (selling) and one is a personal account (buying)...Paypal has no problem with that
posted on February 5, 2001 12:23:36 PM new
Zazzie...
I have considered that, but the problem is I would continuely have switch funds back in forth. I don't think PayPal would like that as someone could easily send themselves a credit card cash advantage and then cash it out. Not that I would do this, but if there was a lot active transfers between 2 accounts all the time, they might get suspicious, freeze my account and then take their time investigating... in the meantime I would be screwed.
It seems what I earn off my sales, I end up spending on eBay. So if one of my bidders pays me through PayPal, that money sits (normally it is burning up in my Paypal account) and I end up using it to pay my own bids for sellers who accept Paypal.
Talk about passing the buck... what I earn I usually spend. Get rid of widgets and get MORE widgets!
I wish Paypal would just offer and option on which registered e-mail address you want to attach to your payment.
posted on February 5, 2001 12:52:09 PM new
Hi brigette
You can change your primary e-mail address in PayPay as often as you like. If you want to use your buying address to send payments, just make that address your primary address until the payment is sent. Your buying address will show up on the PayPal "You've Got Cash" e-mail.
After your payment is sent, switch your primary address back to your selling address.
I hope I explained that well enough. It's been a long day.
posted on February 5, 2001 01:05:58 PM new
Vargas...
Thanks... This seems to be the only answer. I just didn't know if PayPal would wonder why I am changing my default e-mail address so much. They really should try to give us an option without a default and make users that have more than one e-mail address have to choose, like they do when it comes to what type of funding you plan to use (bank transfer, Paypal sitting funds, or CC)
Well I am off of here for a while this evening... Thanks again everyone!
I do believe engineering is trying to set it so that the payment reflects the email address you send it from and not just the primary email address. This has not happened yet, but it is in the works. At this time, the only way around it is to let your user know that the payment is coming from an email address they may not recognize (but your name, the amount, the auction # (as long as it is put in) will reflect which auction it is for.
posted on February 5, 2001 04:26:23 PM new
You can keep two PayPal accounts. I have a business account for selling that is linked to a bank account that I keep at $5.00 so I can't have any problems with them getting into it and a personal account that is never used for selling just my purchases and I transfer from my business to the personal to fund it. The personal is linked to my real accounts but it is never used for selling so I don't have to worry about a fraud transaction or charge back.
