Hey everyone. Recently had a high end item sell for full price on buy it now. It struck me as very odd as almost 100% of the time I have something listed with best offer on my items never sell full price. On top of this the buyer has been inactive since 2015. Just in the past six months I have had two instances of listings selling for full price to a mostly inactive eBay account where the buyer makes false claims about item condition on delivery in an attempt to scam. I really don’t feel like going through this with a high end item as the headache of it all would just be too much to handle 
. I am going to go ahead and cancel the order because of this and just wanted to know if Paypal will charge me for the processing/purchase fees that go along with the purchase.
i believe you will lose out on the paypal fee if you cancel
Every single PayPal fee penny is lost
Well I’m going to stop selling on eBay after reading this. What a **** policy! Gonna try and call them to see if anything can be done, not expecting much… but $100’s on fees because of a scammer is ridiculous.
I had a buyer purchase, pay for, and immediately request cancellation on a $1,500 item. I was livid when I lost the PayPal fee, but nothing I can really do about it. It’s clear in their ToS and I can’t wait to move to eBay managed payments because of it.
You haven’t been switched to managed payments? Because with managed payments you’d only lose a 30 cent fee (rather than the 2.9% + 30 cent fee that PayPal will withhold).
Never heard of managed payments. How do you enable them? Is this something you put in when creating a listing?
Buyer came back and is claiming this is a “Sorry my nephew purchased this item” situation
Sucks when someones “nephew” costs you $100’s in fees!
It’s something that eBay enrolls you in – if you don’t know what it is, then you’re not enrolled in it.
I did this like two months ago and never heard back. Trying again. I have a high sales volume account so I figured they’d be keen…
How high is your sales volume? Because, AFAIK, they’ve been forcing the vast majority of accounts with a store subscription and regular sales into Managed Payments. I was forced into it back in July, IIRC.
Over $40K in the last 3 months and still nothing. Maybe the problem is that I don’t have a store subscription. I’ll look into that soon.
If it’s a couple hundred is fees it might be worth it to try and give PayPal a call. You never know, they might waive the fee if you explain the situation.