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My purchases autopayed!
My items automatically were paid for. Not only did I not authorize payment yet, I didn't get the combined shipping the seller always offers. He has no idea how this happened either, help!
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woodland_gnome
·2 years agoYou did authorize (pre-authorize) payment when you made the offer/placed the bid. eBay had been "experimenting" with requiring pre-authorization of payment for Best Offers for over a year and a half (started prior to Halloween 2021), adding more and more users into the test group required to do so (sellers can opt their listings out of it; buyers cannot opt out once they are assigned). Too many users were making offers and then not paying when it was accepted, and too many of those were scammers who would try to get the seller to text or email them to get their number/email address to send fake payment messages to.
They have now officially made it permanent and all buyers are now required to pre-authorize payment for Best Offers they make on listings for sellers who have not opted out of the program. They started trying it out on auction bids (with a smaller group of buyers that is growing) in Spring or early Summer 2023 and that is still experimental with the group of bidders subject to it growing (lots of new ones here frequently asking the same questions as you did). They will also start experimenting with requiring pre-authorization or payment for accepting offers from sellers soon.