Ebay settings "confirm address" ?

[rlmillerjr]

a buyer replied to me with this message, did I do something to make people have to enter a credit card? looking into it more, will check back later..

Hi, when I go to pay for this coin, Paypal tells me: "The merchant requires you to provide a confirmed address for delivery. To confirm your address, please link a card associated with that address". I've never seen this before when buying an item, but after some research on this problem, I believe you have the setting turned on to only ship to a confirmed address. My shipping address is different than my debit card address. I've made over 30 purchases in the last two months and have 100% positive feedback as a buyer... but I've never come across this before. If you can figure out a way to change that setting, I will pay you, but if not, you'll have to cancel this transaction because I can't pay you otherwise. Message me back, thanks.

Well it seems my paypal account was set to:

Block Payments for the items not sold on eBay from U.S. users who do not provide a confirmed address...

never seen that before, I wonder if I accidentally changed the settings or if it has always required folks to enter Credit Card info?
anyone seen this before? Thanks

[GrumpyEd]

In the past you were not covered by "sellers protection" if you shipped to anything other than a confirmed address but they changed/eliminated that rule a few years ago.

Now Paypal says:
"When you do ship to an unconfirmed address, PayPal encourages you to be alert and minimize risk by following our Security Tips for Sellers."

[jcuve]

Good grief. Your silly buyer should just associate a card and stop making excuses. Some sellers will not sell without a confirmed address.

[seal006]

I won't. Way too much credit card fraud to not be diligent.

[rlmillerjr]

Okay, then I probably will go and switch that back, thanks a bunch, I didn't even think about the fraud thing..