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Weird - Friday Payout. Anyone else?

Summary: byto253 reported an unexpected "Scheduled Payout" from eBay on a Friday, which deviates from their usual weekly Tuesday schedule. Other participants, including ultrasushi27, edubb101, and hold.your.own.media, also received similar unscheduled payouts, indicating this issue isn't isolated. lotzofuniquegoodies and others discussed this anomaly and noted that eBay might have overridden seller settings, affecting both Canadian and U.S. sellers. devon@ebay confirmed an open ticket (ALERT16072) addressing the issue. By the following Tuesday, regular payouts resumed, suggesting a resolution, yet sellers expressed frustration over the lack of control over payout schedules and the inconvenience of unexpected payouts and ongoing issues with monthly store fees.

I got a "Scheduled Payout" sent today on Friday. My schedule is weekly on Tuesdays so this is weird and random.

Anyone else have his happen?

byto253

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Posted 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago

19 comments

reallynicestamps

·1 year ago

It's the monthly store fees that annoy me.

I have a credit card dedicated to such fees when they are not covered by MP balances, but it is annoying.

easoss

·1 year ago

considering how dead sales are on eBay, what's a payout lol.

lotzofuniquegoodies

·1 year ago

@easoss wrote:
considering how dead sales are on eBay, what's a payout lol.

@easoss

I just wish eBay would finish it's catch up with postage charges so I could force a payout and start the process over to cover store fees in a week. Ever notice you can set your watch for store charges and promoted fees getting removed?

reallynicestamps

·1 year ago

Got my usual payouts today.

I guess the glitch is fixed?

I would still prefer to be able to hold payments in my Managed Payments fund and do my own transfers, but not very much.

lotzofuniquegoodies

·1 year ago

@reallynicestamps wrote:
Got my usual payouts today.
I guess the glitch is fixed?

I would still prefer to be able to hold payments in my Managed Payments fund and do my own transfers, but not very much.

@reallynicestamps

There is a setting to lock payouts as being scheduled or releasing. Not perfect but all we have.

Sounds like the recent surprise payout was caused by a missed US payout. Canadians were just innocent bystanders if they weren't expecting one on that day.

soti

·1 year ago

Same deal here. Got a normal payout notice last Tuesday (7/15) then a additional payout notice on Friday (7/18). I wondered at that time if my payout date changed, but today Tuesday (7/22) I got my normal payout notice. So, let's see what Friday brings this week.

byto253

OP1 year ago

Received the regular Tuesday payout notice this morning.

yoneath

·1 year ago

Same thing happened to me after a few old shipping label funds were credited from my account. One was a double charge on an expedited lite shipping label order. If you're using expedited lite, always double check your funds to make sure Canada Post isn't double dipping! It's a nightmare to get your money back and I've now found 3 eBay expedited lite shipping orders that canpost overcharged.

femmefan1946

·1 year ago

Me too, but only on this account.

hold.your.own.media

·1 year ago

Same here, payout sent today (usually Tuesdays). Not a big deal, so long as I get my $ any which way.

byto253

OP1 year ago

Same here. No big deal but random.

devon@ebay

eBay Staff

Admin1 year ago

Community AdvisorView listings

@byto253 wrote:

I got a "Scheduled Payout" sent today on Friday. My schedule is weekly on Tuesdays so this is weird and random.

Anyone else have his happen?

Hi @byto253! Thank you for sharing this. There is an open sitewide ticket open under ALERT16072 for sellers having scheduled for weekly payouts, but received two payouts in this week. The Product team is working on resolving this issue as soon as possible.

wheelersndealers

·1 year ago

I also got a Friday payout today. I have weekly Tuesday payouts selected probably some sort of a glitch.

ericsells75

·1 year ago

Same here. Payout today with weekly tuesday payouts normally

lotzofuniquegoodies

·1 year ago

@byto253 wrote:
I got a "Scheduled Payout" sent today on Friday. My schedule is weekly on Tuesdays so this is weird and random.

Anyone else have his happen?

@byto253

@vintagenorth

@edubb101

@ultrasushi27

I recently spotted a discussion on the dot com forum on the subject. US sellers having the same thing happen to them. (Unable to relocate.) I've had it happen to me the past 2 months. My settings are turned off for scheduled payouts. I turn them back on once any planned charges are covered. The payouts were forced by eBay causing me either to not have funds for postage or cover store fees. As per the discussion eBay is overriding seller settings.

lotzofuniquegoodies

·1 year ago

On the US forum there are a number of started discussions about sellers getting unscheduled payouts this morning. In those cases it seems to have something to do with sellers missing previously scheduled payouts for some unknown reason. Maybe during an eBay fix something happened to Canadian sellers settings to over ride whatever they had in place causing a mysterious unexpected payout.

vintagenorth

·1 year ago

Got mine this morning as well.

edubb101

·1 year ago

Hello,

I also got the same notification. My payout schedule is normally Tuesday but one was issued for today. I thought maybe they have changed the weekly scheduled payout day from Tuesday to Friday?

ultrasushi27

·1 year ago

Same thing here! Also haven't been charged for Canada Post labels in forever, but there's already a post about that issue that many people seem to be having...