Making an offer

Question

I recently was going to make offer on an item. When I went to the offer page, it asked me to select a payment method before I could submit the offer. Never had that before. Seemed fishy so I didnâ€™t make the offer. Has anyone experienced anything similar. Seller had good feedback.

theshoppingmom2 · Answer

@Anonymous

This is from the seller update:

One of the ways we are reducing unpaid item cases. Buyers will automatically be charged when sellers accept their Best Offer. You can read more about that here. Feel free to review and leave any questions you may have below!

Reducing unpaid items for accepted offers

Weâ€™re continuing work we started in 2021 to reduce unpaid items on eBay, which we know has been a long-standing challenge for many of you.

In October 2021, we piloted a new process for collecting payment from a buyer automatically following acceptance of their offer. To do this we asked the buyer for payment and shipping details in the Best Offer flows. In the coming weeks, we plan to expand our coverage and include more buyers, which should further reduce unpaid items from buyer offers.

By mid-year we will also start collecting payment details in other Best Offer scenarios, including counteroffers and Offers to buyers. These changes will be applied automatically for buyers, so you don't need to update or make changes to your listings.

Weâ€™re listening to our seller community, and we're on a journey to make things better for you. Managing payments for our users places eBay in a better position to collect payment for buyer commitments.

Here is the link:

https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/resources/seller-updates/2022-winter/business#unpaid