There's a major problem at Ebay and Paypal about linking accounts but they've got their heads in the sands and are trying to ignore it

I wrote earlier about the problems with Ebay. It appears I am not alone and that this problem has been ongoing for about two weeks, but Ebay it appears have put their heads in the sand and are hoping it will go away.

There are issues however with the ethics of what Ebay is doing.

Technically, they are locking tens of thousands of people out of making purchases, but worse, tens of thousands of people are listing items for sale but a large chunck of their market is excluded from bidding. in effect, Ebay prices are being deflated because there are less bidders around who can actually bid for the items.

How do I know this, just look on Ebay's own forums. The number of people who are writing to complain about these problems are numerous, but seemingly nobody at Ebay cares.

How about Ebay

1) Putting an alert on everyone's "My Ebay" page telling them that this fault exists.
2) Telling all Ebay customers what they are doing about it
3) Refunding people part of their sellers fees as people are not getting the true value of their goods.
4) Having another "Half Price Listings Day" (which Ebay have today), so that those who are currently excluded from Ebay through no fault of their own can take part in this "Sale".

Otherwise, this seems like Ebay are simply scamming customers and nobody there seems to give a damn.

Update : Ebay are assuring people that there is no problem and that it has been sorted but there are several hundred messages on Ebay's own Forums HERE with people asking the same question as to why this problme is occurring.

Bloody Useless Ebay

I am sick to death of Ebay at the moment.

If I go to purchase anything using PayPal, Ebay's own credit system, Ebay tells me that I have no PayPal account (I've had one for many, many years). So then I "link" my accounts, as it asks, and it then still refuses to admit I have a PayPal account, even though within Ebay's own settings I can see that it lists my PayPal account.

And to top it off, promises that it will be dealt with as soon as possible by Ebay have turned out to be utter rubbish.

Why on earth do companies have to start messing with things that are not broken until they actually break them ? I had no problem with Ebay for several years, and now this, completely out of the blue.

Update : Apparently, searching the web, it is a known bug that has occurred in the last few days except Ebay has not bothered to flag this up and tell customers. Absolute Shite. Perhaps they are trying to out do the Student Loans Company for bad service ?

And yes, I am having one of those days and just needed to have a rant !

Just when I'd made up my mind to put a bid in on Ebay, this suddenly turned up

I was all set to bid for THIS on ebay, but then I saw that could have been bidding for THIS instead. Now I've got a dilemma. Can I afford both ? Perhaps I need to get elected as a UKIP MEP or a Tory MP then I might be able to bid for them on expenses.

Have the government looked on Ebay for cheap ministerial red boxes ?

The astonishing figure of £50,000 has been spent by the government on ministerial red boxes in the last few years, as has been revealed by answers to questions asked by Lib Dem MP John Hemming.

Some red boxes cost up to £750, although others costs less than half this.

It seems to me that if the government want to pick up a bargain then they should do what millions of others do and do a search on ebay.

You never know what you will get on Ebay

Why doesn't THIS happen to me !