buyer wants to shop more and they don't have to pay for another week??? What is this?
@its4ufrumee
eBay explained this as a "test" presented to SOME buyers when YOU retain the "Buyer Rules" in the default set to YES or ON that eBay gave you. As a seller, the "test" that allows delayed payment for up a week by the buyer is NOT controlled by you. You can see the settings for the Buyer Rules here:
https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements
Buyer Rules:
*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.
*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.
Click submit or save.
What these do, is to first limit the payment choices a buyer can use, AND the removes the possibility of combining multiple auction wins for an adjusted shipping price. This requires a buyer to put up a payment source in order to bid at all, and if they won multiple items from you, they would be billed automatically, separately, and at full shipping price for each.
A buyer may have fallen for this once, but likely not again. Since this was very unpopular with buyers (and subsequently reduced sales) eBay is trying something "new" to entice a buyer to try again. LOL...
If you NEVER want to encourage multiple sales/combined shipping, you need to keep the Buyer Rules in the default set to yes. The idea was that you got paid faster though often times paid LESS because buyers refuse to participate in the "auto-pay" scenario.
You can supposedly get rid of this "test" to buyers by removing the setting that says you will provided combine shipping. When this 7 day delay thing first came out, sellers were able to also use the "unpaid item cancellation" feature after 96 hours, and award the buyer a non-payment strike, regardless of what eBay promised the buyer.
If you REALLY are serious about not providing combined shipping, you can also ditch the "auction" format and list everything at "BIN/fixed price" and select "Immediate payment required."
