eBay just announced in a new announcement in late October, that they will be removing sellers with a detailed seller rating (DSR) of less than 4.1 in any category. So basically if you get burned by a buyer who wants to be a jerk and rate you bad without giving you a chance to resolve the issue, and your DSR falls below a 4.1, you can forget about listing any products for sale! Crazy!
I don’t know what exactly eBay hopes to achieve with all of these policies. If their goal is to upset sellers, and make them leave the site, then I would say they are doing very well at achieving this goal.
Plus, telling sellers which payment methods they can accept seems a bit harsh. Don’t get me wrong- I use paypal almost exclusively on eBay. I tend to get annoyed when people ask to send a money order, because 9 times out of 10, they never do! You wait for weeks, email them, and then finally they say, “Can you just cancel the order.” It is very frustrating. That is why I accept only paypal.
But at the same time, it doesn’t seem fair to other sellers who may want to accept other payment methods other than Paypal or one of eBay’s accepted methods. Oh well.
I guess as the saying goes…We sellers gotta roll with the punches. The only problem is, eBay is punching so hard that I am afraid one day we are not going to be able to get back up!