Originally Posted by
Cornelius
I was just reading the seller protection policy earlier, and I think the coverage is much broader now. A confirmed address isn't required for ebay purchases to qualify, and apparently partial protection is even offered for unconfirmed addresses outside of ebay. They also now spell out what shipping methods qualify you for protection better than they used to, so that's nice.
I imagine they must have been getting tons of denied payments because of unconfirmed addresses. I know personally out of every batch of 5-10 auctions I'd do ~weekly I'd have about 1 transaction from an unconfirmed address that I had to walk the buyer through. Very frustrating since they all really seem to be genuine, and just didn't understand why it mattered.
Unless there is a catch I'm not seeing, I welcome these changes.