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on debit card use.
Sign up bonus's being done away with, except something about still having merchant referral bonus's.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Dear name removed,
You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of PayPal policy updates. Please read below to learn about PayPal's most recent policy updates.
New Account and Referral Bonus Expiration
Notice Date: August 21, 2003
Effective Date: September 26, 2003
PayPal's New Account Bonus and Refer-A-Friend Bonus Programs will expire on September 26, 2003. PayPal Members can continue to earn a bonus up to September 26, 2003, as long as all bonus requirements are fulfilled by the expiration date. No New Account or Refer-A-Friend bonuses will be paid after September 26, 2003. PayPal will continue to offer bonuses under the Merchant Referral Bonus Program. For more information about PayPal's bonus programs, please review the Bonus Policy.
PayPal Preferred Rewards / 1.5% Cashback Change
Notice Date: August 21, 2003
Effective Date: September 26, 2003
Starting on September 26, 2003, there will be two new requirements to receive 1.5% cashback on PayPal ATM / Debit Card purchases. The new requirements are as follows:
Maintain an active PayPal Premier or Business account
Have the PayPal Preferred on eBay preference turned on.
PayPal Preferred on eBay is a new feature that will be available to eBay Sellers at the end of September. This feature gives eBay sellers the ability to indicate to their buyers that they prefer PayPal. Buyers will see through participating sellers' listings that the sellers prefer PayPal.
Once the PayPal Preferred feature on eBay is available at the end of September, you will be able to turn it on from the PayPal website (click on the Auctions Link within the Profile tab) or from your Payment Preferences within My eBay.
These new requirements are in addition to the existing requirements to receive 1.5% cashback:
Obtain and activate a PayPal MasterCard ATM/Debit Card.
Have a valid eBay user ID and password registered with PayPal.
List on eBay at the rate of at least one item every three weeks.
Show PayPal in all of your eBay listings as the only online payment option that you advertise.
Sellers who do not meet these new and existing requirements will be disqualified from receiving 1.5% cashback on purchases. Disqualified users will have the opportunity to re-qualify by meeting all of the listed requirements.
PayPal Shops Discontinued Outside U.S. and Canada
Notice Date: August 21, 2003
Effective Date: September 26, 2003
Effective September 26, 2003, registration for the PayPal Shops directory will no longer be available to merchants outside of the United States and Canada. Merchants outside of Canada and the U.S. who are already registered for the directory will continue to be listed in the PayPal Shops directory, but will be able to modify their Shops' business information only by contacting Customer Service.
User Agreement Update
Notice Date: August 21, 2003
Effective Date: August 21, 2003
Updated Bonus Policy to open Merchant Referral Bonus to all PayPal members and clarify some Merchant Referral Bonus Terms. Added end date for New Account and Referral Bonus programs.
User Agreement Update
Notice Date: August 15, 2003
Effective Date: August 15, 2003
Added section 4.ix, Volume Composition, to the Merchant Referral Bonus section of the Bonus Policy.
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Not sure if you care about the disclosure of your PayPal email id. If you do, you might want to edit the above post.
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Thank you Commentary just caught it.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>List on eBay at the rate of at least one item every three weeks.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I didn't even realize that one was in there....call me slow http://community.here.com/infopop/em.../icon_wink.gif
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>PayPal Preferred on eBay is a new feature that will be available to eBay Sellers at the end of September. This feature gives eBay sellers the ability to indicate to their buyers that they prefer PayPal. Buyers will see through participating sellers' listings that the sellers prefer PayPal.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Wonder how much extra $$$ Ebay is going to have coming in with this option...and how big the icon is advertising it.
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Must be slow at ebay and Pay Pal for this to happen.
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Is that considered an online payment or a money order company?
I thought they did this before and then stopped it when they got rid of billpoint. Maybe the others are cutting into their profits.
My auctions this week!!!
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from the email:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Buyers will see through participating sellers' listings that the sellers prefer PayPal. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
this just doesn't read well. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif
probably cause i've been up too long....zzzzzzzz
night all
gilda
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Starting on September 26, 2003, there will be two new requirements to receive 1.5% cashback on PayPal ATM / Debit Card purchases. The new requirements are as follows:
Maintain an active PayPal Premier or Business account
Have the PayPal Preferred on eBay preference turned on.
PayPal Preferred on eBay is a new feature that will be available to eBay Sellers at the end of September. This feature gives eBay sellers the ability to indicate to their buyers that they prefer PayPal. Buyers will see through participating sellers' listings that the sellers prefer PayPal.
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These new requirements are in addition to the existing requirements to receive 1.5% cashback:
Obtain and activate a PayPal MasterCard ATM/Debit Card.
Have a valid eBay user ID and password registered with PayPal.
List on eBay at the rate of at least one item every three weeks.
Show PayPal in all of your eBay listings as the only online payment option that you advertise.
Sellers who do not meet these new and existing requirements will be disqualified from receiving 1.5% cashback on purchases. Disqualified users will have the opportunity to re-qualify by meeting all of the listed requirements. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Question One: Has it always been a requirement that you hold an Ebay account to get the 1.5% cashback for using the PayPal card?
Question Two:
"Show PayPal in all of your eBay listings as the only online payment option that you advertise."
Does this mean that you can not mention in any way in your auctions that you accept BidPay (if you choose to accept BidPay)?
Question Three:
"Show PayPal in all of your eBay listings as the only online payment option that you advertise."
Does this mean that if you list a $10,000.00 plus item (say a car or rare antique) that you must list that you will accept PayPal?
Question Four:
"Buyers will see through participating sellers' listings that the sellers prefer PayPal."
How many sellers here are comfortable listing PayPal specifically as their preferred form of payment, as opposed to simply being one of their payment options?
Question Five:
Of those sellers here who currently get the 1.5% cash back on their PayPal card, will any of you relinquish this rather than pushing PayPal as your preferred payment option (and I do appreciate that some of you probably prefer PayPal payments).
Question Six:
Those buyers here that do not use PayPal - will you feel uncomfortable about buying and paying with a different form of payment, if PayPal is stated as being the preferred payment.
This is the only one of these questions that I can give an answer to. Subject to how this is "formatted" - I would probably write to the seller and see if they were happy with me bidding and sending payment - but that would be because I am aware of what this promotion is. Currently if an auction states that it prefers/encourages PayPal payment (or direct bank deposit - a uniquely Australian phenomenom), I don't bid.
Question Seven:
Will the "PayPal Preferred on eBay" have a seperate search engine or anything else to encourage bidders to use this feature, and discourage bidders from looking at auctions which do not accept PayPal?
Question Eight:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>PayPal Shops Discontinued Outside U.S. and Canada
Notice Date: August 21, 2003
Effective Date: September 26, 2003
Effective September 26, 2003, registration for the PayPal Shops directory will no longer be available to merchants outside of the United States and Canada. Merchants outside of Canada and the U.S. who are already registered for the directory will continue to be listed in the PayPal Shops directory, but will be able to modify their Shops' business information only by contacting Customer Service. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Is this further discouragement of International trade on Ebay?
Kevin
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It has always been a requirement that you do not advertise any other payment service in your listings. I settled for only listing PayPal but my EOA has all the methods I accept.
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The new American Express Blue has a better cash back program than the Paypal Debit card and they don't decline 50% of my transactions so I've switched over part of my spending to them. Unfortunately, they top out at $50k per year and they pay out only once per year but I think it's a good alternative.
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