eBay’s ID Verify Broken | Posted at 10:43 AM
I was on eBay yesterday trying to sell my two video cards, and of course for Buy It Now you have to have more than 5 feedback. I have 4. So, I looked at eBay’s help pages and there’s a little known application called ID Verify, you pay $5 at the end and you can get all the seller perks. So naturally I wanted to because I wanted to sell my stuff tonight (Sundays at 7pm PST seem to work the best).
Naturally, it didn’t work. I fill out the information, most of which is pre-filled, and try to submit it. It says I have to fill in my address information. Great except you know what? It’s already filled in. Big help, eBay.
I emailed support because why would they have a Seller Support Line like Amazon, that’d make too much sense (which is, by the way, available 24/7). So now they won’t get back to me ‘til tomorrow, after the best time to sell passes.
I did buy something to get the extra feedback but I don’t think they’ll leave it until Monday. Grrr.
I guess I’ll have to make due selling Monday night.
Update: For future reference, it isn’t necessarily the address you registered with eBay, rather more like the USPS address. Since I live in a suburb, I had to use “Minneapolis� as the city instead and then it worked. By that time I had my 5 feedback, though.
Comments
I had to smile at this because I know that it's so true. It was good to read a humorous slant of the story. God bless eBay and all who sale her ;-)
Posted by: Michael Sherriff
On July 4, 2008 7:23 PM
Thanks for the tip!!! I could have checked my address 100 more times but had to ask google if anyone else had this issue. I had to put cleveland instead of the suburb bedford.
Posted by: Markyb
On August 26, 2008 8:18 PM
Interesting because of the fact eBay started out as a black market selling hard to find items such as cable descramblers ultralux fx , smoking tools, firearms etc...Those are a few of the things that made ebay successful
Posted by: Ultralux fx
On November 5, 2008 3:33 AM
I find that eBay's latest round of rules make it very difficult for frequent sellers. For every one good rule they implement, there seems to be five bad ones.
Posted by: Tom
On March 19, 2009 7:19 AM