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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1375531, member: 13650&quot;]FWIW, ebay owns paypal.&nbsp;&nbsp; So it&#039;s not like two separate entities getting fees.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next, I have never had this happen to me (been a long time since I sold anything on there).&nbsp; But it did happen to somebody I know.&nbsp; I talked to an ebay representative about this policy.&nbsp; They said it is completely random, amongst the targeted people.&nbsp; So it&#039;s random, but not everybody is targeted.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;For example a company that sells coins on ebay every day is not going to get harrassed with it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Somebody who hasn&#039;t sold anything in a long time is eligible to be targeted.&nbsp; Other factors they look at is your selling history.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;ve always sold coins and now all of a sudden you&#039;re selling an expensive purse, that auction may be flagged for funds to be held back until the buyer posts&nbsp; positive feedback.&nbsp;&nbsp; Value of your auctions is also taken into consideration.&nbsp; If you suddenly try to sell a higher dollar item than you have in teh past, you may get flagged.&nbsp; It&#039;s not guranteed to happen but you will be in the target group.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Supposed to keep people honest I guess.&nbsp; It seems more of a way to harass the majority over a minority that this system probably rarely catches.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So that&#039;s it.&nbsp; There is no science to it.&nbsp; There&#039;s no point in comparing individual results.&nbsp; If you get flagged, you were just unlucky.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Saw a special on ebay one time.&nbsp; The FBI could take notes on how much ebay tracks you and your dealings with their site.&nbsp; Nobody would believe how much info they compile on you and your habits.&nbsp; They save everything to be used in their database.&nbsp; &nbsp; The money they rake in is beyond obscene.&nbsp; But that tends to happen when you&#039;re worldwide and you have that many people using your product.&nbsp;&nbsp; Point is, selling fees are all of 12%.&nbsp; They could get by on half that very easily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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