Auto-paying

[lvogtf]

I am a longtime seller on ebay and suddenly i'm often seeing something like this when someone wins one of my items: 

 

"Autopay at Jul 17 7:00pm PDT

The buyer wants to shop more, but they may check out early."

How can I disable this option? I can't wait a week to get paid! I need winners to pay asap...

[ocean-state-mint]

This was something that eBay did a few months ago. I like it when I am bidding on several items as the buyer, but as the seller it kind of sucks. I had a guy rack up wins  around 30 of my auctions and then somehow he turned off the auto pay and never paid me. I am thinking it is so you can bundle items to ship, but if they aren't bidding on other items, it shouldn't be an option.

[carlmarxx]

You need  to going into your buyer payment  preference    and click  opt out .  

[diamondsells]

I think this is basically a scam on the part of the buyer. They click the button that says "I want to shop more" knowing that this will give them a total of 7-8 total days to pay. They have no intention of paying. Sorry to be so cynical but this has happened to me several times in the past few weeks with no payment after 8 days. I have one in the process right now. The item was sold on July 6 and the buyer has until July 14 to pay. I'm quite sure that just like all the others I will not get paid. 

[mam98031]

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@diamondsells wrote:

I think this is basically a scam on the part of the buyer. They click the button that says "I want to shop more" knowing that this will give them a total of 7-8 total days to pay. They have no intention of paying. Sorry to be so cynical but this has happened to me several times in the past few weeks with no payment after 8 days. I have one in the process right now. The item was sold on July 6 and the buyer has until July 14 to pay. I'm quite sure that just like all the others I will not get paid. 

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@diamondsells 

Not everything is a scam.  And this is not a scam.  It is an option buyers have when shopping auction style listings with a specific seller.  Often buyers what to try and win a few auctions from the same seller, not just one.

Most sellers of auctions WANT buyers to purchase multiple items.

[johnrj1226]

A possible parallelism but  off topic

Wait 'til you retire and sign up with a Medicare Advantage insurance  program that you are locked into for 1 calendar year and your "in network"  provider(s)' decides to opt out  do to contract issues and only will provide services at the very much higher "out of  net work" rates mid year or will no longer offer the same program the next following  year and you have to go "shopping for  dresses" again at the end of the year during the sign up period for the  following year..  Life is not so much fun when it happens..  Had to deal with it over the last 15 years.  This and other '44 models  don't like changes either.  Life is just not  fair but ya' gotta' get used to it.

This is called the Gomer Pyle Sydrome in my book..

PS:.  Some day the  Detroit Lions will win a  Super Bowl Championship.  Last  NFL championship 1957 throttled the Cleveland Browns 59-14.  My wishing and a hoping >>.but those Murrffet  looking uniforms gotta' go.

[moneymaker290]

How to disable this crap feature...I need my money now

[moneymaker290]

PLEASE HELP...E-turd..doesn't answer this question....but they take there percentage. 

.PITIFUL, I think u would agree...if I can't get an answer to this,,,IM DONE WITH EBAY.  

[moneymaker290]

Totally agree 

[moneymaker290]

But why don't they ask the seller if it's okay to include that option. And make it simple to get out of that option there's the scam it's screw in the cellar

[moneymaker290]

Not helpful dude

[moneymaker290]

I'm going to give it a try, hope you're right, appreciate the time you used to help

[ittybitnot]

@lvogtf 

Read the following:  

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/What-s-with-7-days-to-pay-Is-this-some-test-that-I-don-t-want-...

Is this the problem you are having?   

[steve_stuff]

Sounds like this is your first autopay sale(s)

Most of our last fifteen/twenty auctions have gotten the autopay note - Some had the seven day window and the note that it seems most sellers fail to notice - "they may check out early", but some have an one hour window and no may check out early note. So it seems that the buyer is given an option.

To bid on our stuff people are forced to do the payment detail bit, but they are not forced to 'wait' seven days to pay, they are just given the option. They can still pay 'early' - They can ignore the autopay and just pay like they always do.

In our case, most don't wait and just pay. If they want your item to get to them 'fast' why would they wait to pay?

[thorntons.pawn1]

I read that ebay was doing this beta test basically as a way to stop all the "won, but never paid" for items. They recommend to send the invoices as soon as possible to the auto pay buyers.  They can choose to go ahead and pay and if not 24hr AFTER the date on the autopay ends ebay will automatically charge them. Not all buyers have the option to do this yet from what i read. I'm getting quite a bit of autopay winners and most of them go ahead and pay shortly after i invoice and others wait and a day later when the autopay was up the item did get paid for. The downside is having to wait for these items to get paid for and get the money in my hand. 
I'm conflicted as i do not want to have to wait a week to get paid for my item but i do like the fact that i do not have as many non-paying winners.