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This rule has actually been around for quite awhile. It used to be only on certain electronic items that had a high fraud report issue. Used Cell phones was one. I sold one of my G1 Android phone on ebay and they did that hold thing. I contacted the buyer and he gave me a positive rating and the money was released.
On a similar recent situation I had something on ebay on a buy it now with a multiple items.
I logged into my paypal and there was this banner saying from now on your funds will be held till item is shipped and received and feedback was left. I was like huh what?
First thing I did was go to ebay and cancel any auctions I had. I had sold this last summer and not had any of this shit and I am known for shipping pretty damn quickly. I have a 100% positiver user rating on ebay.
So I called up paypal and asked them what gives. They were like this is a new policy we are doing with everyone and we will look at your account on the 26th of November and if everything is good we will remove the hold rule.
Oh and they did say it was a direct ebay policy. I was like ya but most of the stuff I sell is not sold on ebay and I ship directly from paypal whenever possible.
I also told them this was crazy as I have had paypal for like 11 years.
I have since seen that these limits are strictly on ebay sales. It is strictly an ebay policy.
This is actually an anti small non business seller policy on ebay's part. If you check out the whole hold rule they have a clause that says if you have over like 150 sold with 100% user positive rating the hold will not apply.
Ebay is now geared strictly towards people running commercial business's rather than the single person or small guy.
There seller fees are such that unless you have a decent sized business its costly.
Ebay sucks these days. It's turned in a last resort status for selling.
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