While there are differences in standards for eBay Motors and all other parts of eBay, generally sellers are not allowed to demand any kind of payment that cannot be electronically tracked.
This is a basic Buyer Protection.
Could we step back a moment?
Have you seen the car?
Have you test driven the car?
Have you or your own mechanic given it a mechanical fitness inspection?
One situation where non-PP payments are allowed is on pickup. Because if the car is not as described when you actually see it, you just don't pay and walk away.
But all too often we hear of buyers told that eBay will be approving the sale of a vehicle from another site, like Craigslist or AutoTrader.ca (they don't) or that the widowed marine biologist has been called away from her ship in the North Atlantic to serve in Afghanistan and wants to sell a cheating boyfriend's car to pay for cancer treatments for his grandmother's dog before she passes away.
