@kalyoth wrote:So - I found an item in Japan that I liked - made an offer & ebay states payment was required when making the offer, if accepted. I agreed & made offer.
Offer was accepted & I still had to manually make the payment. Did something break or malfunction? Should I worry about a double payment being processed?
Did eBay tell you @kalyoth that the seller accepted your offer, but your payment failed, and to check it out?
If so, the check out was your only payment, because you defaulted on your default payment method.
Offer was accepted & I still had to manually make the payment.
@kalyoth
When you went to make the offer were you presented with a screen similar to this that you were REQUIRED to fill out BEFORE you could make the offer?
That for quite some time is the form that would generate an automatic payment if the seller accepted. You would NOT be shown that form unless the seller required you to put up a payment source before making an offer. It was not a popular feature with buyers since it limited their payment options, and disallowed combined shipping. Many sellers turned it off once they figured out what was going on.
Subsequently, eBay was also making many unannounced changes to the process as well. For a while, if a seller accepted your offer, eBay would rename it as the "SELLER SENT YOU AN OFFER" with no notifications to either party. That was a real mess, which eBay refused to discuss even though a bad time was being had by both buyers and sellers alike.
It may be that your seller does not require the auto-pay (no screen pop up), it may be that no auto-payment was required due to it being an international purchase, or as suggested if your pre selected payment failed, it would revert to a regular acceptance situation giving you time to pay, combine items, and pick the payment source of your choice.
Since there are others reporting the same thing over the past few days i.e. auto-billing is not happening, it may be that eBay has turned it off even if you have to fill out that form in order to proceed.
eBay DID remove the requirement for AUCTIONS, and sellers can still manually turn off the buyer requirement for making offers.
So until we get more reports from users, or eBay decides to discuss this with its users, we are still left to guess whether it is a glitch, intended change, or a new test to see if people will still back out when the pop up form appears mandating buyer compliance.
