This is a great question I recently received:
I’m buying on eBay and I want to buy an item using a money order. How do I easily find items that accept money orders?
Unfortunately, you can’t. I know that sounds crazy, but eBay announced a new policy in November regarding “paper payments.” Sellers now can no longer advertise paper payments in their listings.
In summary, sellers can no longer accept paper payments (cash/money orders) on eBay. It is against their rules. Sellers can only accept paypal, and other credit card/electronic payments only. I suppose eBay is doing this to prevent fraud from sellers getting payments and then never shipping the merchandise. But it seems a little to big-brotherish to me!
I know, dumb move on eBay’s part, huh? I guess because a few bad sellers were ripping off buyers and never sending the merchandise after receiving payment does hurt buyer confidence. But they shouldn’t punish the honest sellers for the dishonest seller scams. Maybe they will eventually remove this policy restriction, when they are about to go out of business!