Deadline for Paper Payments on eBay

The deadline for removing references to paper payments from your eBay listings is in around a week. 15 Jan 09 is that deadline. For a calendar of other deadlines and events, visit the events page on RocketPlace Community.

What do you need to do to be compliant?

1. Remove anything in templates or listings that says you take checks, money orders, or cash. This includes cashier's checks and international money orders. You can't take them, and you can't say you take them.
2. I am under the impression that eBay is going to be watching the content of listings (which includes templates) as you or your software tries to list your items to eBay. They may be looking for words like "check" and possibly even "cheque." If eBay sees a listing it thinks is still offering checks, that listing could FAIL, as in not be allowed to even go up on eBay.
3. The example eBay gave me was that even if you have a sentence like, "We don't take personal checks," the listing might fail because they are not parsing the context of the mention of checks. So rather than being a dolphin caught in tuna nets, I'm just suggesting that any use of "check" be removed. And I'm suggesting that you NOT write negative sentences like, "We don't take money orders."

If you have a template that needs changing, we can change it for you, even if we didn't do your template.

Just fill out our contact form to let us know what changes your template needs and what software you're using. We'll get to you as soon as we can!

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