Automatic Payment Due Dates are Absolute **bleep**

[geek_stuffs]

Sick of paying multiple times for shipping for the same seller for one product at a time? I sure am.

When you win an auction, ebay forces a pay-by date, and then by default will cancel the auction, even without the seller's consent. I've had multiple sellers say they wish they could extend the due date so that I can finish up winning an auction or two for the purposes of combined shipping, but their hands are tied.

I sent a message to a seller saying that I wanted to wait to pay until his auctions ended later that day, and he said no problem. Then I learned a lesson the hard way - eBay auto cancelled my purchase a couple hours before I was literally about to win the other auctions and pay.

Is there a way to tell eBay to get the heck out of the way of their buyer-seller relationships?

[jda08121]

That is a setting the seller selects. Maybe they don't understand it.

[releasethekraken_1]

The shortest possible duration for an unpaid item case to be closed was 6 days, and sellers could push that out to as much as a month. Under the new "non-payment cancellation" policy starting next month, it's 5 days, but again the seller can decide to let it go longer.

Blame your sellers, not eBay. There's enough flexibility there to give you plenty of time to buy other things before payment is due.

[geek_stuffs]

Interesting. Thank you.

Though, it also doesn't help when eBay implies that you've already paid for it and it was shipped out, further confusing everyone.