25+ years on eBay and still no good means of dealing with deadbeat bidders | Payments

imatt49849 · 2023-01-05T15:56:08.124000Z

Another day, another auction won by a deadbeat bidder. While I'm admittedly a fairly infrequent eBay seller, I've been on here for 25 years and I am sick to death of dealing with eBay and deadbeat bidders on roughly 30% of the items I list. It's 2023 and there are so many generally secure methods of taking payments online; why isn't the system set up in a way that requires these people to have a credit card *on file* so when they bid on something and the auction ends, it simply charges them the amount they agreed to pay? This happens to me probably 30% of the time when I list something: some moron with little or zero feedback bids at the last minute, they don't pay, and then *I'm* penalized by being told to wait 4+ days until the auction can be nulled/voided "the right way" and the buyer listed as nonpaying so I can finally relist it, try again, and then wait 'x' more days for the next auction to end. And, from what I understand, the fees I paid up front (in this case the "Special Duration Fee") are non-refundable (at least that's what the "ask an expert seller" person told me), non-paying bidder or not. Why should I be penalized with waiting 4 days and still owing these fees for an auction that wasn't successful all because eBay's payment system is trash? Then on top of all that, after reporting as "nonpaying" you can't even leave negative feedback anymore to warn other sellers anymore! This whole process is monumentally stupid and it's been happening literally for DECADES. What legitimate reason is there for this still being an issue? Fix it!

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