KYC is going crazy these days

It was never a nice thing to begin with, but today on eBay I got my first "shotgun KYC" which means they wait until they have your money and then say they are holding your funds until you produce documents.

Hell fucking no.

They can keep the 60 bucks, but that's fucking rude to wait until a sale comes through then hold your money with an automated email. I haven't made a sale in 5 months until now, they could have asked my for this at ANY point before now.

Even then, I was willing to do it this time since they have my delivery address already anyway, but all the documents I uploaded they couldn't accept (I don't drive so I don't have a drivers license or passport either). I've had a big row with them on their chat help and they don't accept my documents and they're basically keeping my money, citing "by law" thinking that means they're behaving any better. I can do nothing about getting my money now. Shotgun KYC is sickening behavior.

I see it this way:

The KYC is to find you a partner, or so that everyone knows each other because I don't understand why so much personal data, it can't be possible that for the vast majority of sites it is necessary to do KYC so I guess it is most likely that in a few years the "perfect couple" will arrive at our house

JoBlow said:

They can keep the 60 bucks, but that's fucking rude to wait until a sale comes through then hold your money with an automated email. I haven't made a sale in 5 months until now, they could have asked my for this at ANY point before now.

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If they had to do the KYC to every single account, many bots, considering that it is most of the time a manual process, it will be very costly.
So they have probably chosen the short route: asking just to the real sellers. But definitely still very annoying, just consider that boting is going wild nowadays

I must agree with you...these guys are creating more and more barries to scammers, it's annoying how they are harming my job

Isn't KYC something people should be resisting, like Ulez?

KYC takes my #1 spot for being the most annoying thing today. Followed by either QR codes to order your food(you can't ask anyone these days) or shops that don't accept cash