I've long been suggesting a change and lately have been putting it in all the digital places I can.
It would be a simple and in my opion 'very workable' solution to change the buying/selling billing process.
Instead of registering the final selling value and chargng the seller then make the seller have to jump through hoops to get it back when the buyer won't go through or just refuses to answer at all.
Why doesn't Ebay charge the buyer the listing fee on winning the bidding. Hear me out here.
Its simple. [ignore the maths % its just an example of process change]
Say item Z sells for $100 and the fee is $10.
Normally Ebay charges me $10 immediately [on the next invoice]
And hopefully the buyer completes and pays me my $100, thus $90 profit for me.
But increasingly, buyers and being aresholes and not paying or ignoring etc.
So my suggestion.
Same item sells at final value $100.
on final value, Ebay charges the buyer $10 listing fee immediately
The final fee minus the listing fee is then calculated and the buyers purchase fee automatically
gets reduced to $90.
Ebay is still in exactly the same position of being able to profit immensely on these sales that get reversed for whatever reason, I'm sure its worth millions over a single year in interest and the like but at least they're not penalising the seller.
On average most receivers claiming for a refund would be able to claim they same way a seller currently has to but this would stop a lot of bad buyers simply not responding or bidding on multiple items and just going through with the sale they want.
It's really easy for ebay to see that the buyer is ignoring and simply let the charge stand. The buyer would have to satisfy ebay that they had a legit reason to ignore the sellers request etc.
Everyday my business grows, and less and less of it is due to Ebay. There are alternatives people.
K
