eBay doesn’t trust International Paypal payments?

Yesterday I decided that I would definitely go to the eBay Live jamboree being held in Boston between 14th-16th June. I booked my flight and hotel through lastminute.com and then thought I had better order my eBay Live tickets.

There was no real problem, just about 4 or 5 pages of information that had to be completed, all pretty straightforward. Then I got to the payment page. There was two choices of payment either Paypal or credit cards. As I have a surplus in my Paypal account at the moment I thought I would take this option and clicked to select it.

I was then amazed to get a message on the screen saying that this seller does not accept this form of payment for buyers outside of the USA and Canada. Now have I got it wrong or is this the same company that is urging us all to use Paypal as our payment method of choice on every occasion.

It would be interesting to know why eBay do not feel it is safe to accept International payments through its own payment service. Has any other readers had problems getting eBay to accept Paypal payments.

The good news is that I shall still be going to eBay Live as I paid by debit card in the end.