Now requiring payment upfront when making offers???

[ethanweisinger]

Since when? Is this recent? I never had to do this before, like a month or two back.  And thanks GOD I didn't fall for this new eBay scam. What POS is eBay now days man 😞 What else is eBay going to do to run customers away????

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Requiring-payment-upfront-when-making-offers/td-p/32690693/page...

[myfrugalboutique]

That is fine. 

[ethanweisinger]

You see that's where you got it wrong.  This should be, I will show you the money in my HAND  so you know I am good if you accept my offer.  So I have PayPal I am verified, that means I do have the funds. What you're describing and eBay want is to hand you the money, so you put it in your pocket, and if you decline my offer, then you hand the money back to me.  But regardless , eBay can and will sometime put a hold on your money  and do whatever the eF they want with it. Now you have your funds tied down in some stupid scheme that does not make any sense.  How does that make any sense to you?

This is simply another money grab scheme from eBay so we get all bugged down on their stupid policy and whatever the sellers wants to do. eBay is not buyer friendly is just all about sellers, simple as that

[craft-stash]

"Can I have a Hamburger today and pay you next Tuesday?" - Wimpy

Eat and Pay!

[buyselljack2016]

seller that combine shipping and accept offers should untick the box in "buyer requirements" so that the buyer does not need to provide "preauthorization".

 

[buyselljack2016]

Matters not to me if I have a few $$ tied up if I were to make an offer. 

Not sure what the solution will be, but non-pay on offers need to cease.

[buyselljack2016]

You see that's where you got it wrong.  This should be, I will show you the money in my HAND  so you know I am good if you accept my offer. So I have PayPal I am verified, that means I do have the funds.

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Having PayPay does not show anyone that a buyer is going to pay if the offer is accepted. Preauthorizing those funds does. The goal is, no more turn and walk away when an offer is accepted.

You may not be doing that, but some buyers are.

[yuzuha]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

eBay is the only site I sell on that leaves the seller hanging because there's no mechanism for the buyer to pay for something at the time their offer was accepted. 

What's a scam is when the buyer offers, or contracts for an item through an auction, and doesn't pay, leaving us hanging.*

*With an item no longer available for sale, off the shelf, while we wait four days for the non-payment process to work.

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How often does that even happen, though? The last time I had a non-payer on an offer was in 2018. Every other buyer I've had since then has paid promptly (as in, within 48 hours) once I accepted their offer.

[gblargg]

I just got hit with this for the first time and eBay lost the sale because of it. I have a lot of eBay MasterCard points earned and wanted to use those when making an offer, but there was no option for that. It was doubly dumb because the item was supposed to get free shipping for the second one but it was charging for both, hence the need to make an offer. I ended up finding it cheaper on another platform anyway, so I guess thanks eBay.

[2013grotz]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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How often does that even happen, though? The last time I had a non-payer on an offer was in 2018. Every other buyer I've had since then has paid promptly (as in, within 48 hours) once I accepted their offer.

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20-25% of the time when I accept an offer from a buyer.

[ed8108]

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@ethanweisinger wrote:

 😞 What else is eBay going to do to run customers away????

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There are manny things that ebay can

do to motivate more of ebay's good buyers & good sellers to run away

[kensgiftshop]

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@athrian97 wrote:

It's been explained in multiple threads why buyers have issues and it's not as simple as you're making it. Which parts exactly are you confused about?

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I'm not confused at all about it.

If I wanted to make an offer, I enter my payment information and if the offer is accepted, it's paid.

If the offer is declined, there's no payment made.

[mudshark61369]

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@buyselljack2016 wrote:

seller that combine shipping and accept offers should untick the box in "buyer requirements" so that the buyer does not need to provide "preauthorization".

 

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@buyselljack2016 wrote:

seller that combine shipping and accept offers should untick the box in "buyer requirements" so that the buyer does not need to provide "preauthorization".

 

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@buyselljack2016,

The problem is, the sellers who state they will combine shipping, may have had the Buyer Payment Requirements box checked by ebay without notice.  They can send a partial refund for the difference. However, there is evidence if a seller issues too many partial refunds, their accounts may be flagged. 

[ittybitnot]

Not sure what the solution will be, but non-pay on offers need to cease.

@buyselljack2016 

How about eBay simply get rid of chronic non-payers?  I think eBay's attitude of "We want all buyers even if they are bad" must still prevail.  So now, because of these people, every accepted offer made to the same seller results in a separate transaction with full shipping.   eBay has found a new revenue source by not allowing combined shipping/payment.  Works for them unless the buyers that are FORCED refuse to play.  

[buyselljack2016]

How about eBay simply get rid of chronic non-payers? 

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Chronic non-payers is not the issue.  The avenue is in place to block them if the sellers use the tools in place to do it. 

It is the ongoing "new" non-payers that create the issue.

The current "test" does seem to have some flaws, but preauthorizing for the purchase of a single item offer should not be an issue for most offers. 

I can understand high $ offer "funds pending holds" being an issue, but for many offers it's just a "how dare you" kneejerk reaction to the process.

[chapeau-noir]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

eBay is the only site I sell on that leaves the seller hanging because there's no mechanism for the buyer to pay for something at the time their offer was accepted. 

What's a scam is when the buyer offers, or contracts for an item through an auction, and doesn't pay, leaving us hanging.*

*With an item no longer available for sale, off the shelf, while we wait four days for the non-payment process to work.

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How often does that even happen, though? The last time I had a non-payer on an offer was in 2018. Every other buyer I've had since then has paid promptly (as in, within 48 hours) once I accepted their offer.

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About 25% of the time.