. These are effective 13th August for existing members.
User Agreement
The two main changes are that
- if your eBay seller fees are more than 180 days overdue, eBay may take them from your PayPal account, and
- sellers are explicitly made responsible for checking the accuracy of pre-filled item information, stock photography and other catalogue services supplied by eBay.
Privacy Policy
- eBay can share your information within the eBay group, e.g. with PayPal or Skype, and
- with law enforcement agencies in the case of suspected fraudulent and malicious activity.
- A new “” section explicitly forbids the adding of “other eBay users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (email or physical mail) without their express consent”.
- A new “” section gives users the ability to opt out of targetted marketing on the site. As eBay were running user tests last month which included looking at reactions to adverts and paid-for services, the more cynical among us might wonder if this heralds yet more third-party ads on the site.
If you’re happy with the new agreements, you need do nothing; if you’re not, you’re invited to .
4 Responses
# eBay can share your information within the eBay group, e.g. with PayPal or
Skype.
That’s naughty, I use those services anyway, but I think eBay are taking
liberties with that one.
# with law enforcement agencies in the case of suspected fraudulent and malicious activity.
No problem at all with that one, but people with something to hide will complain about it.
ebay knows nowt,
that most of the planet dont already know .
so its no big deal
If sellers are responsible for the accuracy of the prefilled information why is it not editable? I sold a camera where all the items listed on the prefilled info were present except for a 16 mb memory card. Anyone with any experience of digital photography will know how useless that is! I have no idea what became of it and was putting a 256 mb card in with it. As I couldn’t change the size of the card I had to type in the spec myself in the description box. What concerns me is if the prefilled info is used in the new best match search engine, this could lead to honest sellers being penalised.
if your eBay seller fees are more than 180 days overdue, eBay may take them from your PayPal account’
Dear eBay if there isn’t enough money in my Paypal Account, please help your self to a pound of flesh.
Do you think this is an answer to a problem of sellers going out of business recently and owing them money? I wonder how that happened? 🙄