7-Day Autopay Program Needs to be Eliminated or Provide an Opt-Out

[goguac-lake]

As a part-time but relatively heavy volume auction seller, the 7-day autopay option really bad.  I travel a lot for work and can only run auctions regularly around that schedule when I am available to ship items.  Giving buyers an option wait 7 days to pay will eliminate about half of the weeks where I could normally run auctions because I have to ship within 24 hours, which I obviously cannot do when I am not home.  I set the four-day payment requirement for a reason.  It seems absurd that eBay would override that specific seller payment requirement for this open-ended shopping opportunity that none of my buyers will be able to use.

[kensgiftshop]

If you don't want buyers to provide a funding source to pay for their auctions, you can turn that option off.

Then buyers would only have 4 days to pay.

[goguac-lake]

Made that change in my selling preferences, thanks for the tip.

[vorpalaprov]

I have all thet turned off, and still I got a buyer with the 7-Day “Autopay” who held up my listing for 5 days and then cancelled when they found something else.   A prime example of Buyers now able to wait to see if a similar item is listed by another seller during their 7 day “Free Parking” waiting period --- that is less than the first purchase (my item) on hold --and Buyer is then free to cancel the first transaction in order to buy the other.    Always amazed that eBay “fixes” things that dont need it, but doesnt' fix the things that do.