Payment option on ebay

[Karenthevampire]

Hi all, I am a newbie to ebay. Appreciate if you can help!

Recently I have been doing some search for Birkin. I notice that some of the sellers request deposit via Paypal and then the rest by wire transfer. Why would that so? Is it because they are afraid someone will request a charge back once they got the bag? so as a buyer, will I be protected by the eBay buyer protection? Or I can only get back the deposit if anything bad happened?
Also from my limited buying experience on eBay, it seems like when I settle the payment I have to do that in full. How can I make a partial deposit?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Chestnutty]

Uhm I think you should open a thread in the eBay sub-forum. I'm sure a lot of people there have experience in buying luxury bags on that sub-forum.
http://forum.purseblog.com/ebay-forum/

PayPal charges a fee of 3% on the purchase, and 3% of a Birkin purchase is like half a grand, compared to less than $50 flat fee by wire transfer.
eBay Protection has a cap of $300 I believe.

 

[Karenthevampire]

Uhm I think you should open a thread in the eBay sub-forum. I'm sure a lot of people there have experience in buying luxury bags on that sub-forum.
http://forum.purseblog.com/ebay-forum/

PayPal charges a fee of 3% on the purchase, and 3% of a Birkin purchase is like half a grand, compared to less than $50 flat fee by wire transfer.
eBay Protection has a cap of $300 I believe.

Thanks very much I will start a thread there instead! Cheers