Not happy with money being held. Since Dec. 2011 I have been a Top rated seller selling over  $7000.00 of merchandise,and now I find out that my DRS has drop below standard. Because A buyer purchased and item from me, gave me positive feedback, while also dinging my stars. Now e-bay has several hundred dollars of mine being held because DRS below standard. I have had nothing but positive feedback from day one,  I am so pissed off because I talked to a e-bay representative, and All they could do was talk in circles. And after reading this forum, I have come to understand more clearly that this is nothing but a scam on e-bays part. I'm  ending all my listings and closing my account e-bay and paypal the evil sister comp .And will be looking for Class action suite against e-bay and paypal.The ceo for e-bay is the ceo for evil paypal. And strongly advise everyone to do the same. I just hope we are all not to late.

We won! We won!

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m05/i07/s02

BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller.... SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute

I just read Hondamedic's link: Hardly a win for the rest of us. According to that article, here's what Ebay/PayPal have come up with now:

"While terms of the settlement are as yet undisclosed, the litigation has not stopped PayPal from expanding its holds policy. PayPal sent an email last week sharing its plans to update its "Funds Availability program" to add additional circumstances in which it could hold seller funds, including "Sellers who sell an item that has a sales price that is significantly higher than the average sales price of items previously sold by that seller."

I wrote to my states' banking regulator regarding the holding of funds by PayPal and their answer, in essence, was, "As long as you use Ebay/PayPal, you have to play by their rules". In other words, they aren't governed by anybody.

Ebay has made it nearly impossible to be a top rated seller for one reason and that is greed.They will keep coming up with more and more gestapo rules to avoid giving sellers the 20 percent discount.I would be the first in line to sign a class action law suit against these good for nothing ignorant losers.Ebay is one of the most poorly run companies I have ever dealt with.If I didn't know any better I would think the company is run by the North Korean Goverment.They go against everything America stands for.I also know thousands of Ebayers that have been screwed by Ebay that will also sign a class action law suite.Just let us know and we'll be there.

Ebay is BEGGING for a competitor.  Serve.com rips Paypal to pieces, with no transfer fees and they only charge when doing actions that I normally never do.

Reach out to AmEx and Serve, stating your desire for an AmEx/Serve backed auction site.  They would be an immediate competitor and would pull a ton of traffic from FeeBay.

When you stop taking care of what matters most, your customers, you begin to fail as a company.  eBay is failing and now VERY far below a Company Performance Standard.

Good lord, imagine if they needed to meet the same requirements they put on us.

The hold dosn't bother me as I understand the pricible involved. Once you have a decent record that goes away.

not sure if anything has or ever will be started but i'm in. i do enjoy how e-bay is quick to charge their fees. but it takes them 21 days for me to get paid. like everyone else i have been with ebay for a very long time probably 8+ years and i don't sell much, but i shouldn't be punished for that. i guess my biggest gripe is we should earn interest on the money they hold or we shouldn't be charged a fee until several days after our money is released.

paypal and ebay needs to be sued paypal stold my money money that was pending and they think they will get away with this on top of that ebay and paypal needs to be shut down

I'm furious and definately in! Been selling over 10 years and have recently sold quite a bit....well over 100 items in the past year. Feedback is 100% with no issues, yet a few people gave me low stars because they felt I overcharged for shipping? How can you hold my money because of a few people's "OPINIONS"??? I can easily say that ebay overcharges on fees, especially having the balls to now charge a final value fee based on the shipping cost! And what does one have to do with the other??? I have 100% feedback, but a couple people didn't like the shipping charge so now my funds are held for up to 21 days??? WTF??? Makes zero sense and I depend on those funds to cover the shipping costs with my paypal debit card. Now I'm supposed to go out of my own pocket to pay all the shipping charges and keep track of and wait for them to release the funds?? Get outta here!!!

This just makes no sense at all...I'm done with ebay unless a LOT changes! Count me in if anything happens!

Ditto that ! You have my vote plus the numerous people I know selling in eBaY. About time we the sellers voice our opinion and stop taking crap from eBaY. Problem is these idiots are just a bunch of young punks.

Hello ebay Members,

Ebay has once again fallen on their own Sword, they are always fixing things that aren't broke.

The economy is in the dump headed to even worse times. I'm quite sure ebay (management) is not aware of it. Ebay is shrinking everyday and management, who is unaware of the true facts about the slump in the economy, thinks this new "holding funds policy' will attract more buyers. Well, you can have all the buyers in the world, which they have, but they forgot that sellers need to be there also.

Yes, they have a hold on my paypal account. All my listings have the shipping costs stated in the description, yet the cowardly buyers leave a postive feedback and a bad strike in shipping costs.

I called ebay upset not knowing this could be done (June 22). Ebay says I should offer free shipping and add onto the price the shipping costs to avoid the bad strike.

Well, here's the flaw: Shipping items larger than what a Flat Rate box will hold varies quite a bit if you ship from say Mule Creek to El Paso verses Mule Creek to New York. So, by doing the free shipping thing that ebay suggested, I would be ripping off the local closeby buyers. (The added on shipping costs to the fixed price would be estimated according to what it costs to ship to NY, not to Silver City which is in the same county as Mule Creek.)

Well, all I can say is ebay (management) must be in another world, high on drugs, laughing at us peons.

Ebay tells me on the phone that they want to partner up with me. I told ebay I don't care to have you as a partner only as a service. I think ebay is trying to get into everybodies pocket a bit deeper.

There is nothing I can do about this matter except end most of my listings and sell elsewhere.

Regards,

Ron Callies

I buy alot in ebay .... so now just to get these complacent sellers to wake up I am going to give 1 star to every seller that I buy from.

The sellers will never know who down graded them. Things need to change for the better for sellers. Time to do something NOW !

BOYCOTT EBAY !