Emails Requiring Immediate Payment If Winning the Bid

Question

Does anyone get these emails from ebay saying they will automatically be charged by whatever means immediately after winning a bid? If so, what's the purpose and do you mind? This precludes combined shipping for multiple items during a certain period of time and essentially precludes the seller from combined shipping unless they want to get dinged for possibly not shipping on time. Comments?

glorybells · Answer

The purpose is that there have been a large number of buyers who make an offer and then never pay. eBay is slowly rolling out this process, not all sellers are with this.