2 days to pay.

[newoldguy]

If my item is supposed to be paid for within two days. Then eBay gives the buyer four extra days. Why not just say, "Buyer has six days to pay"? 

Why bother with starting a claim? Waste of my time. 

This gives another potential buyer six days to purchase an item from someone else resulting in lost income for me. Lost income for me means less items I purchase from eBay.  Ebay gets the big lose/lose. 

I keep forgetting. I'm not a power seller so I don't matter. Sad how eBay forgets the people who helped make them what they are today. 

[fern*wood]

The timing for filing for non payment is the same whether you are a power seller or not.    A buyer can have 10 days to pay if you allow it...I sometimes do.

[goodluckselling]

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@newoldguy wrote:

If my item is supposed to be paid for within two days. Then eBay gives the buyer four extra days. Why not just say, "Buyer has six days to pay"? 

Why bother with starting a claim?

This gives another potential buyer six days to purchase an item from someone else resulting in lost income for me. Lost income for me means less items I purchase from eBay.  Ebay gets the big lose/lose. 

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Because eBay gives the buyer notification during the final four days to take action.   You start claims so if the buyer does not pay you can close it and the buyer gets strikes against there buying account and less options to buy once they hit sellers minimum standards.

Also you have not lost any income.  If the buyer has not paid and does not intend to pay then you never had the income to begin with. 

If a buyer purchases from another seller which does happen sometimes, there was never any lose to eBay either.

Good Luck Selling!

[mam98031]

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@newoldguy wrote:

If my item is supposed to be paid for within two days. Then eBay gives the buyer four extra days. Why not just say, "Buyer has six days to pay"? 

Why bother with starting a claim? Waste of my time. 

This gives another potential buyer six days to purchase an item from someone else resulting in lost income for me. Lost income for me means less items I purchase from eBay.  Ebay gets the big lose/lose. 

I keep forgetting. I'm not a power seller so I don't matter. Sad how eBay forgets the people who helped make them what they are today. 

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The Unpaid Item policy is a TOOL for sellers, not a seller's payment policy.  All sellers on Ebay are expected to meet or exceed Ebay's stated policies, no matter the subject.

In the case of payments, a seller is allowed to set their own terms.  For example on my craft listings, I allow buyers up to 7 days to pay.  I do this because it helps to promote multiple purchases and will typically work well in this category.

On my fragrances, they are all IPR [immediate payment required].

So try to look at this a different way.  You have a tool available to you to use if your buyer is not meeting the payment terms.  Whatever you decide are your payment terms, you should state them in ALL your listings as part of your TOS [terms of sale].  Keeping in mind that whatever your TOSs are, they must meet or exceed Ebay policy.  

So that would mean on your payment terms, make sure you allow at least 2 days for payment as you can't enforce anything less than that unless you change all your GTC listings to be IPR.  If you do that, then they can't buy without paying and that resolves the issue.

I hope it all works out for you.