@mrdutch1001 wrote:
eBay has proven over & over that it is NOT trustworthy...but that's a whole other story...
and the whole approach to the MP system has been shrouded in secrecy. Sellers had to sign up/register before they could even get adequate info or answers to their many questions...
The way I view it is that the set-up for Managed Payments has been pretty tightly managed for security and that's why information about it has been coming out in dribs and drabs. For example, much of the information that board moderators used to have on user accounts is no longer available to them. Also, given that sellers won't be able to use eBay if they don't register for Managed Payments, I suspect the attitude from "on high" was that it made more sense for sellers to switch over first and try to figure out how things worked before asking questions. Some people can work with that sort of arrangement, some people can't. Such is the nature of being human.
@mrdutch1001 wrote:
Nearly 4 years ago when Etsy moved its sellers into Etsy Payments(and removed PayPal as a payment processor for sellers), the move was en masse/global... it was a transition over a short period of time ..not 3+ years and counting...Etsy Payments didn't take years to implement and it wasn't a disasterous charade like what eBay has dealt its sellers.
After 3+ years, eBay is "stlll working at it" MP is still a "work in progress" and still a total mess.
I am not walking into this mess created by eBay with its incompetence, lack of professionalism, and totally useless tech personnel...
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A crew of 5th graders could handle this better, would do a better job as they'd be up to the challenge, willing to show the world they could do this, they'd be focused on the job at hand, get it done and be damned proud of it!
Apples and oranges. Etsy is a newer platform with more up to date coding and a smaller userbase, so it's more easily able to turn on a dime than eBay, which is like a network of fifty-year old warehouses with a lot of deferred maintenance but with a much larger clientele. Etsy only has the one website; the "international" sites are actually just customized pages within the Etsy website, whereas eBay has a lot of individual national sites.
Etsy only had to introduce one Etsy Payments system that could be tweaked with for non-US users. eBay's Managed Payments has to be different for every national eBay site to reflect banking regulations and systems, taxes, and so forth.
I'm not really surprised by these growing pains. The latest eBay CEOs have expressed a desire to bring the eBay platforms into the 21st century and when you're dealing with a lot of old computer code, it's going to be a messy transition, particularly when you bring a lot of "new blood" in to renovate the old warehouses.
Besides, name a time when the eBay sites worked absolutely perfectly. I still remember a plethora of "outage" announcements from back in the day.
