Paypal caution?

I have positive feed back on all my sales, pay my invoices and have a verified account. The items on the list, 3 at the moment, are buy it now.

Why am I getting this warning?

Does everybody get it?

Comments please.

Are they high value items?

Can we have the link to have a look at the listings? Perhaps we can see something relevant then.

I haven't put them up yet John.

The items are a spotmatic 500 with non asahi lenses(£35), aMES and miranda lens (£20) and ink cartridge (£4).

Not high value or obscure items. The warning appeared when I started the process to list and calculated fees, I stopped at this point.

Have you check Paypal it's self and see if any info on your account about this:

When I visit paypal everything seems OK.

The account isn't in dispute, the account type is a premier.

I can't see anything wrong, unless it's picking on the fact that I have 3 buy it now items to list!

I know they have been doing this for some months now but as I have not listed anything for ages I have never come across it.

Thanks Mike, that's usefull, it's a while since I used buy it now.

The last sales were auctions and I didn't get this warning, maybe I should just ignore it and place the items for sale.

Incidentaly the listing fees are 40p regardless of price asked, that seems a lot since I last used this format.

I get the warning every so often but they've never *actually* withheld any money. It seems to come up when there's a trigger word somewhere in the description so check your listings for things like:

Flashgun
Pentax shooter
etc

A friend who was selling a pair of indicators for her old MX5 got one for the word repeater in the title, so they're not always obvious.

You'll find these listings don't appear immediately in searches (only in My eBay) as they have to be checked by human eyes before eBay unleash them on the general public - normally this is within a couple of hours after the listing is made but once I had to wait nearly 24 hours for an item to show up in the listings - not a happy bunny!

I suppose with so many items appearing and such dire legal consequences when things go wrong (for eBay, PayPal or any similar company that tends to get held responsible for everything bad out there) they have in place lots of automatic filters that create alerts.

I would just put the items up for auction and leave it at that. They might do better than BIN. If you have fixed prices, why not list those on this forum first to see if there are any takers - the Pentax stuff anyway.....

They put a 'hold' on money I rcieved for a DVD (hardley high value) and I can't work out why, my situation didn't fit the described factors. It's not a real problem unless your buyer doesn't give you prompt positive feedback, mone did then I could get at the money.

I wouldn't take it personally or concern yourself too much, probably just some 'bug' in the software that governs these things.

Be careful of anything that is sent by email. Hover over the link that the email suggests you click on and check that it starts with www.paypal.co.uk and not www.xxxx.paypal or www.paypal.xxxxx there are plenty of spams out there at the moment. The page you go to is created by a fraudster it looks like ebay or a bank or paypal and asks for your password and user name.

I suspect you have received a fake email. Do not click any link in the email. Delete the email and login to your PayPal account in the normal way to see if there are any problems. I bet there are not.

I did think of offering them here,I might just to see if there's any interest.

Just put the SP500 up for anyone interested, it's here

I had a fake paypal email a couple of weeks ago and reported it to Paypal and indeed it was if you suspect it's fake do not open any of the links on it report it and delete it.