How to turn off automatic payment on auctions?

[family-n-decor]

Why is this back again?? This is the 3rd time in the past year this has happened to me! I cannot find an answer anywhere?! Some sellers don't have this but others do. I don't want to autopay after each item I buy especially when I'm purchasing more items from the seller. Please help?? A couple sellers said it was on my end that I turned this on? I did not. 

[kathiec]

The sellers are incorrect. Once you're opted in buyers have no control over this. It's an opt-out on the seller's part. All sellers were originally opted into autopay. Some have gone to their account settings and opted out, which is why you don't see it on every listing.

This is the new eBay; despite a great of backlash this won't change. You have to decide whether you want to accept it or stop bidding on auctions. Many of us have chosen the latter.

[ittybitnot]

@family-n-decor 

Sellers can still turn these off.  Most don't even know they have these requirements, much less the consequences for keeping the defaults set to yes as eBay posted them  without notice.  As a matter of fact, YOU require this of your customers as well.  Take a look: 

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer Rules:

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.

If a seller keeps these, they only work for Buyer IDs that eBay has enrolled in the program as well.  All buyer IDs are in forced compliance (submit a payment source in order to proceed) for making offers, and they are still adding buyers for bidding.  

These limit the choices a buyer has to pay (no apple pay, google pay, spendable funds, PayPal credit, PayPal Pay in 4, etc.) , and results in auto-billing that does away with combined shipping/invoicing.  Each item is billed and paid for separately at the full amount.  For example, a buyer that wins ten auctions for postage stamps with a shipping charge of $2 each will be paying $20 shipping for those ten stamps. They may go for it once, but they won't be back.  It is sort of like going to the grocery store and getting a separate charge for each item in your cart.  Though eBay says this is to cut down on non-paying buyers, it has worked great for discouraging buyers that want to get multiple items and actually DO PAY.   Actually, eBay makes more money this way, so it is preferable to eBay to do this rather than  sanctioning buyers who don't follow the rules.  

As a buyer, once eBay awards your ID this "special" gift, there is nothing you can do to remove yourself from the program..  You will be faced with this each time you meet up with a seller who retains those "Buyer Rules" just like you do.  It will have no effect so long as the seller has turned them off. 

In addition, any offers (or counter offer) a seller sends will require immediate payment with no combined shipping/invoicing should there be more than one item.  They can still use the payment option of their choice but must pay each one individually. Again, a good buyer experience seems to be less important of late so eBay can increase their take. 

[campanaelia]

I don't recommend messaging sellers either, I've been blocked at least 3 rimes I know of because of auto-pay, So now I just hit the back button when I see that pop-up

[mudshark61369]

@family-n-decor,

The first 2 replies are absolutely right, about ebay secretly opting seller's into Auto payment. It started in 2023, but the option was removed for about 6 months at the beginning of this year. Then it was reinstated and activated, on all sellers accounts, even the on the ones who disabled it before.

As  @ittybitnot pointed out, it is active on your account, and you would not have known about it unless you read the Announcement posted on either June 26 or 28, just before the 4th of July Holiday week started.  eBay did the same thing when it was first rolled out.

[ed8108]

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@ittybitnot wrote:

 Again, a good buyer experience seems to be less important of late so eBay can increase their take. 

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I suspect Ebay to their amazement will discover discouraging buyers from making purchases results in making less money 

[ittybitnot]

I suspect Ebay to their amazement will discover discouraging buyers from making purchases results in making less money 

@ed8108 

I thought eBay had figured that out when they "removed" the Buyer Rule for forced compliance for auctions there for a while.  But no, they put it back and continued to enroll more buyer IDs.  

Many sellers that have turned these OFF have reported an increase in sales.   I have said to many that regardless of eBay's warning, I can almost guarantee that your listings will likely NOT be overtaken by non-paying buyers, and they certainly won't land in your front yard in unmarked black helicopters and take over.  LOL.   

I used to spend many hundreds of dollars a month buying here.  I see the "pick your payment source" screen and I leave/x out.  Will advise, however, the one for auctions is very discreetly placed under the box to submit your bid, and very easy to miss  (at least on a computer).

[bballjunkie1]

I was surprised when my auction bid ended and ebay automatically paid out of my account.  That is just plain wrong !  No more bidding is the way to go.  Bad Ebay management.

[shtahny]

I hate automatic checkout!

And there is no way to opt out.

So, from now on, I'll take 2 stars off any seller who has this **** forced on buyers! 

[family-n-decor]

I hated it too at first. I think ebay is the one making sellers have it? I asked a seller if he could turn it off and he said it's not an option for him. I think ebay is doing it to try to stop the shady, shill bidding sellers? With a lot of Crystal sellers (not in the US) they do it all the time. They bid on their own items on another new account. Its really getting annoying! I noticed new sellers have the autopay too. Is it ebay or the seller? Some might not realize it's on? You know as a buyer when its on the auction.  When you go to place a bid it tells you. As a seller if wouldn't want it on especially if buyers were purchasing more than one item from me. 

[kensgiftshop]

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@family-n-decor wrote:

I hated it too at first. I think ebay is the one making sellers have it? I asked a seller if he could turn it off and he said it's not an option for him.

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The seller can turn the option off if they want to, but some might not know how to do it.