PayPal now compulsory on eBay UK

June 3, 2008

eBay UK have just announced that as of today, all listings on the site must offer PayPal as a payment method. Sellers may continue to offer other payment methods as well, subject to the accepted payments policy. Sellers running good til cancelled Shop listings will need to amend these before they are auto-relisted.

Rather strangely, eBay don’t seem to have added anything about this policy to the SYI form; I was just able to list an item with personal cheque as the only listed method of payment, with no errors thrown up by eBay whatsoever. This kind of policy change needs to be communicated to sellers before they breach it; having a new “safe payments” policy and then relying on community reporting to enforce it is, quite honestly, a waste of time. Yet again, the policy and the implementation are worlds apart on eBay.

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Site Changes, eBay.co.uk | 7 Comments