A few of the best deals for the holiday weekend

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In 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, axis it into the way you'd buy as well as get paid for items you sell on the ginormous auction site. But the once-happy couple has been breaking up for years -- as well as on Valentine's Day, some sellers may no picked be sturdy to sell items on eBay at all without connecting an old-school embankment commemoration instead.

This morning, I received a final warning that I would need to add a embankment commemoration by February 14th or abroad "your handiness to revise or relist explicit listings, or create new listings will be disabled."

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eBay tells The Verge this isn't the tangential for every seller -- it's rolling out in phases, as well as a quick scan of the web shows it's been hoopla on for at microcosmic a couple years. This isn't the final phase either, as eBay tells us the rollout won't be inborn until 2022. But I doubtable it's propelling fast: I got this message despite rarely anytime affairs items on eBay, as well as congregation tells me the "majority of sellers" will have eBay-managed payments by the end of this year.

Digging up a embankment commemoration as well as plugging it into your profile may not be the only causticness here, by the way. You could be waiting a lot picked for your money, as eBay's managed payments site credibility out:

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Three to six business canicule is simply a long time to theoretically wait for money that could have instantly popped into your PayPal. (That said, my meanest eBay auction didn't instantaneously release my funds to PayPal, either. Unbind emoji.)

On the plus side, eBay says picked sellers should admittedly pay lower fees than before, as well as provides a variety of casing studies at this page -- but it's not like eBay's smack-dab passing furthermore the savings. Previously, eBay would well-nigh take a 10 percent cut as well as PayPal would take a 2.9 percent cut for a total of 12.9 percent of your take; now, eBay will take a 12.35 percent cut in the same situations.

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While eBay's graphic (above) might attending like you're saving a big cotter of money when you axe the middleman, you can see (if you attending carefully) that the sizes of these flattened are misleading. The new middleman is eBay.

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