Ebay Managed Payments For Coin Sellers Anyone Enrolled ? Thoughts ?

Oh my! This is going to get messy.

I have managed payments with ebay. I was forced to switch to managed payments or not sell on ebay any longer. It is nice not having to deal with Pay Pal on coin sales. ebay can make deposits and withdraws from your checking account, and the withdraws do not need to be approved by the checking account holder. Once ebay is linked to the account, the only way to get ebay off the account is to close the checking account. I opened a separate checking account with debit card and checks that I only use for buying and selling of coins. I have only been using ebay managed payment for about 3 weeks and so far there have been no issues.

I am using Managed Payments. But then again I only sell one coin a week.
The overview page is a bit chaotic, payments and invoices seem not to be in-sync. In short, I have no idea if ebay shortchanges me or not. But other than that, it works...

Yup , five hours of valuable time you can never get back !

I quit being an ebay seller back in the early 00s when they started to police people involved on ebay getting in touch with each other. They grew to giant status with the mindset of being the "the world's largest online garage sale," and kept expanding...until incorporation and greed set in. It was their right to start, then, dipping into seller profits, but the practice of wanting more and more kept alienating more sellers, but ebay never seemed to care. People who were not around on ebay back then have no concept how great ebay once was for sellers and buyers alike.

I switched to managed payments a month ago. It was OK, but I don't like the fee structure at all. Before it was only the 12.9%, and they said we would save money by using managed payments. As others noted, it is only a bit lower so not much savings. And now ebay also charges a flat $0.30 final value fee on every sale. I had to raise my min price or lose money. So sales dropped.

From what I read, having a store would avoid this $0.3 fee and have a lower % value fee for coins, so I signed up. This is not the case once all the stores were put on managed payment, and now there is no difference in final value fees between the basic store and not. They did let me drop my store without penalty when I pointed out the inconsistent messaging.

I do like the new ebay Standard envelopes with printed $0.51 "stamp" for 1 oz of coins with tracking. It can be tough to print on No. 10 envelopes though, so go with the more square sized ones. And DON'T put a cardboard flip in it or the automated machines at USPS won't engage the tracking (to stiff to go through). That counts as a defect, even if coin arrives. And don't ask the local post office to scan it, their scanners only do bar codes, not the 3d ones this prints for the stamp. I use the plastic pocket slips now and works fine after I shrink the pdf to print on No. 10 envelopes (I ordered a full box and need to use it up).