Ebay Is Dead To Me

[njee20]

With eBay's Simple Postage now the seller often isn't specifying the actual cost. Buying one small item will often be inefficient, just how it is.

No spurious PayPal charges for me!

[msr]

The £1 charge from PayPal on an eBay purchase or linked card is a temporary verification fee used to confirm the card is valid. You can check your PayPal account to confirm that the payment has been refunded. I get the same treatment from Rails too.

[thebrighton]

Have noticed that some of the pricing on ebay is optimistic, from one point the starting price and the selling price grow wider apart and some sellers still think putting £ 5 post on a £10 wagon isnt going to put people off...

But if it is a wagon you need you have the choice of paying the postage, which at £5 is realistic, or visit a model shop to buy it if they even have it in stock. If I were to do that it would cost over £10 in petrol and my time.

[ntpntpntp]

The £1 charge from PayPal on an eBay purchase or linked card is a temporary verification fee used to confirm the card is valid. You can check your PayPal account to confirm that the payment has been refunded. I get the same treatment from Rails too.

As a one-time verification the first time you use the payment method then yes that does happen, but not every time you make a purchase as @class8mikado is reporting?

[NewbieNovice]

PayPal does seem to be using it as a 'authorisation fee' on a lot of transactions to me, it is instantly refunded back to my PayPal account once payment has completed. Perhaps it's a anti-fraud measure to do with the buyer protection, I don't really know