I knew I could not be the only one. I am going through the same with them now.. Been running on 4 months with them fooling around on holding funds. One thing after another.. Seem to make up the rules as they go along.

I'm in too !

The way they calculate "BELOW STANDARD" is wrong. Cannot wait to be able to join a class action lawsuit against eBay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been selling on eBay since 2000.

Have loved selling on eBay until now.

Never had any serious issues with buyers.

I received 2 negative feedbacks in 1 month. One from a customer who complained it took too long to get his order, which ended up being his fault since he never answered his phone or the numerous messages left by the freight company trying to schedule an appointment. Second negative feedback was from someone unhappy that I ran out of stock.

Apparently this makes me a risk and they decided to hold my funds.

I sucked it up and decided to wait for my next evaluation which occurs on the 20th of each month. At the next evaluation my scores should have put me to Above Average Performance, yet they didn't change my status. I called them and they informed me that due to the type of "penalty" imposed that the penalty had to remain in effect for at least 30 days after they implement it.

See, what they did was they evaluated my account on the 20th of May, then they waited about a week before they changed my status to Below Average Performance. So on June 20th the "penalty" they imposed hadn't been in effect for a full 30 days. I now have to wait until July 20th for my next evaluation. This was pretty infuriating.

I've been an extremely loyal and good seller on eBay for years. I've always tried my best to be a good seller and have done a really good job at that. To have eBay now treat me like this is just insulting.

On top of all this, eBay has made it extremely difficult to contact anybody of importance.  You can call eBay and talk to a peon whose basic job is saying, "I'll pass along your comments." You can't respond to any emails left by eBay. You can't email eBay(if you have any email address to contact them please let me know).

At this point I would leave eBay in a heartbeat if there was a viable alternative. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be, at least not for me. 

I would be 100% behind a lawsuit just to get them to remove this ridiculous policy of holding funds.

I am currently seeking to participate in a class action regarding this also. I have also been a member sice 2005 as Famcostores. I I am a 20 with 100% positive feedback and they are holding my latest sale for 21 days via pay pal. They claim I need to establish a sales record with them and they will remove the 21 day hold. Establish a sales record ? I have been selling with no complaints since 2005. Now they say they are also holding funds if you have not sold x number of items in the last 90 days. My buyer has the phone I sold, I have all the paper work from the post office and eBay will not acknowledge my physical receipts , phone call from buyer or email the buyer "it's against eBay policy for them to email the buyer". Maybe 249.00 isn't that much to everyone and maybe 21 days doesnt sound that bad to everyone ... but do you understand that eBay and Paypal get to PROFIT for the listing, for the commission, for the paypal processing and get to profit thru MILLIONS held until the decide to give the money back. No escrow fund as Florida clearly requires with interest paid to the seller. Just so you know, they also have asked for payment .. so they want me to PAY THEIR FEES BEFORE I CAN EVEN GET THE FUNDS! If an Attorney has already started a class action for this, please let me know so I can reach out to them.

Wanted to provide an update. The buyer has confirmed receipt via 100% positive feedback so I am a 21 now and 100% positive. Regardless, funds will not be released for 21 days because eBay will not accept this as confirmation because the cannot be sure it is really the buyer providing the feedback. No electronic tracking.. you can forget it .. you will never see your funds before 21 days. The policy around this clearly shows that eBay is forcing us to choose more expensive shipping while offering reduced or free shipping to the buyer. My biggest complaint is still the same. This policy is a strong arm tactic to force the seller to use specific shipping methods and allows eBay to hold millions? of dollars daily thus profiting more from each and every sale. eBay - hold my funds for 21 days .. fine .. put it in escrow and pay me the gained interest !

Not until you ship, until they can verify via electronic submission to USPS, Fedx , UPS etc .. I have 2 commercial tanning beds that I was going to list @ 3400.00 each... Of course, this is freight as well so there will be no tracking method GOD can use to confirm delivery. So they have already been listed elsewhere. Believe me, I wouldn't let my mom keep 3500.00 for no other reason that to deprive me of it. This class action will come .. but we will still be the losers .. Ebay and Paypal will pay the government fines and the attorneys will get the balance of the settlement while they send us a few cents.. so fight back the only way you can, don't support companies that abuse you. We are the customer right ..they are what they are because of us .. right?

I'm on board too.  This is smiliar to extortion by a landlord who is highjacking your mail and turning off your utilites for no reason..  I can't see how it is legal.  I just listed item for the first time in 2 years and did not realize this policy until after the sale.  I do not recall seeing anything to alert me of this before I completed the listing.  It was probably there somewhere in the fine print, but very misleading.  Now I am left holding the bag for 21 days... a form of extortion.

We are an NPO (Not for profit organization) We have recently started to trial use eBay and PayPal and will not be staying long unless both eBay and PayPal make some fundamental customer service changes and operate a solid policy that has coherence and transparency.

PayPal in particular has behaved in such a way that the only course of action should be thorough investigation, to include collection of verifiable data that demonstrates banking malpractice, any material that demonstrates abuse of position and then the courts.

The best solution is an alternative. We are currently investigating the possibility of creating an alternative and will post on our main website more details in due course. (omfinity.org)

In the meantime, very briefly, yes, we would certainly fully support action that cleans up the act of both companies..

How fast can we get this started? Ebay just put me in your "Special Program" because of a low communication score and is withholding my money. The poor communication came from my being out of town longer than expected then got severely sick upon my return. I told them this but they don't care, just read to me what is in their response booklets. Even with proof of tracking, the buyer received the item and left glowing feedback, they say I still have to wait 3 days after buyer gets item to have money released. This is my only means of income and I had to use my birthday money to mail items because they are withholding the postage money as well. They say if I show perfect score rating and basically behave myself, I can come off the "Special Program" on the 20th of August. They said every sale will be this way until the 20th. If my new review is not up their new standards then I will continue to be punished. I don't like them holding my money and using it for interest to generate more money for themselves. When can you get rolling with this suit?

YESTERDAY FEE-BAY REMOVED ALL MY POSTINGS AND SUSPENDED MY ACCOUNT.... WHAT FOR..YOU ASK?

FOR QUOTE: HIGH RISK SELLING BEHAVIORS...!!!!!?

THEN WHEN I ASKED THEM WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT....

THEY SAY YOUR SHIPPING TIME WAS SLOW... YOU CAN NEVER SELL ON FEE-BAY AGAIN..!!

THAT IS SUCH B.S...!!

I HAVE 98%+ FEEDBACK AND FREE SHIPPING... ALWAYS THE CUSTOMER GOT THERE ITEM.

THEN FEE-BAY SAY'S AFTER 10 YEARS MAKING THM MONEY... I AM OUT..!!

PEOPLE BOY-COTT FEE-BAY AND NO-PAL NOW..!!

SELLERS RUN FROM FEE-BAY AND MAKE A DENT IN THERE EARNINGS.... MAKE THERE STOCK TUMBLE.

WE ALL NEED TO STAND UP AND SUE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING..!!

PLEASE CONTACT ME ANY LAWYERS AT:

760-408-8544

ANYTIME..!!

GO TO "H" FEE-BAY AND NO-PAL

Remember when AOL was number one???  IBM?? Motorola??? Like every number one company a competitor with better rates, better service and pricing comes along .  How many of us use aol for internet, own a ibm computer or have a motorola phone.  I believe Ebay's and Paypal's won't be so dominate in the future, competition is always around the corner and I believe the only one to challenge Ebay and Paypal is Google.  Who knows google may open it's store without clicks.... Just a thought..

At the start of my ebay store, my funds were held for Ebay claimed I was growing too fast and needed to ensure that I would be around so they held my funds for 21 days just as my business exploded and the only way I could get the funds released was with customer feedback and I need to upload the tracking number onto Paypal's website (hmmm doesn't paypal get the tracking numbers from Ebay).  It was 21 very hard days...But I played the game and got the funds released in 3 days... by providing tracking, proving delivery and gettng customer feedback.

Ebay's new policy is aimed to save them the 20% that they were paying to the seller each month.  This is just a cost savings approach and they have made it so hard for the sellers due to unrealistic expectations from Ebay and some devious buyers who know to how manipulate the not as described rule that more sellers are choosing to not take returns and not hurry to ship items out.  So Ebay is saving millions at the expense of the seller, it is really worth to bite the hand that feeds you.

Very sad for I understand from my friends who sold on Ebay for years that the Meg W. era was the best..... .