eBay announced today a new checkout flow for Paypal payments. The response from the community has not been positive as it apparently leaves their Paypal account open at the end, among other glitches. There are also reports of the order showing the shipping for each item, rather than one shipping charge for the entire order.
You can read the official eBay announcement here.
Reviewing the screenshots posted by Paypal on the Checkout Forum I am happy to see on the checkout page an explanation of what an echeck is, with an estimated clearing date, and a note that it may delay shipping. However, there have been problems reported with trying to use other funding methods and being automatically moved to an echeck instead.
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