eBay

therareitemstore · ‎04-25-2021

Just wanted to post this in hopes some eBay higher-up might see it. *cough* *cough* 🙄

There needs to be an option to require immediate payment if a buyer accepts a Best Offer price. This option exists for "Buy It Now", so.. why not Best Offers also? Or at least leave the item listing active until the buyer pays. I've had countless buyers accept offers I send out, then never pay. Meanwhile, eBay acts like the item sold, and then I have to go through an unpaid item case, which ties the item up for a week, waiting for eBay. I know I'm not the only seller this happens to. And based off of Google searches on this topic, the issue is pretty rampant.

You would think eBay would want this feature, since more real sales = more profit for eBay. However, they seem to cower at the thought they might hurt a buyers feelings by requiring them to... actually pay for the item they bought.

coolections · ‎04-25-2021

I am not sure of all the reasons, but one I can think of is when a buyer sends an offer they may not even go back onto Ebay for days, or even know you accepted their offer.

shag182 · ‎04-26-2021

@therareitemstore wrote:
Just wanted to post this in hopes some eBay higher-up might see it. *cough* *cough* 🙄

There needs to be an option to require immediate payment if a buyer accepts a Best Offer price. This option exists for "Buy It Now", so.. why not Best Offers also? Or at least leave the item listing active until the buyer pays. I've had countless buyers accept offers I send out, then never pay. Meanwhile, eBay acts like the item sold, and then I have to go through an unpaid item case, which ties the item up for a week, waiting for eBay. I know I'm not the only seller this happens to. And based off of Google searches on this topic, the issue is pretty rampant.

You would think eBay would want this feature, since more real sales = more profit for eBay. However, they seem to cower at the thought they might hurt a buyers feelings by requiring them to... actually pay for the item they bought.

YEP on EVERYTHING you say.

That's why I don't do OBO or send offers to Buyers. NO IMMEDIATE pay required. I don't like the listing / item sit in limbo for days, weeks waiting for the buyer to complete payment, or even perhaps buyers remorse sets in, then the buyer is MIA???

thtra-7927 · ‎04-26-2021

I think buyer even didn't know that you already accepted that offer.

terrycece62 · ‎04-26-2021

If you want immediate payment do not accept offers

Just list" buy it now" listing checking off "immediate payment required"

As per eBay why don't you contact a policy makers at the head office

gwgw-73 · ‎04-26-2021

@thtra-7927 wrote:
I think buyer even didn't know that you already accepted that offer.

In all the threads you are spamming for brownie points, before you parrot yet another poster

@therareitemstore wrote:
There needs to be an option to require immediate payment if a buyer accepts a Best Offer price.

at least read what the OP actually wrote, quite the opposite of your sage comment.

inhawaii · ‎04-26-2021

Best offer can't require immediate payment because how does ebay know that you'll accept the offer or not?

The buyer offers you $1 on a $100 item. Immediate payment required?

You can't even require immediate payment once you accept the offer. What if you accept the offer but the buyer is asleep or at work?

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releasethekraken_1 · ‎04-26-2021

@coolections wrote:
I am not sure of all the reasons, but one I can think of is when a buyer sends an offer they may not even go back onto Ebay for days, or even know you accepted their offer.

But the OP specifically wants IPR "if a buyer accepts a Best Offer price." In that instance, the buyer is right there, on their device, and they complete the action that creates the transaction. I agree with the OP that eBay should enforce IPR in that case.

When a seller accepts a buyer's offer, IPR obviously can't be enforced, but that's not what the OP is asking for.

my-cottage-books-and-antiques · ‎04-26-2021

This has been talked to death for years. Adding Immediate Payment to offers and auctions is NOT as simple as many think. However, ebay IS working on it, and there is some reason to believe we will have a way to do this by the end of the year. (The recent change ebay made, eliminating the need to file an Unpaid Item Claim, was a step in this direction, but ebay has admitted it is not the ultimate solution.)

byrd69er · ‎04-26-2021

I think its a matter of a piece of HTML that nobody knows at eBay, or their website contractor (if they use one) knows how to write.... so they just leave it as it is and move on.

my-cottage-books-and-antiques · ‎04-26-2021

LOL---If only it were that easy.

byrd69er · ‎04-26-2021

Don't do offers. Simply change the price on the Buy-It-Now item and let the person take that route if they want to buy it.

I'm done with offers....permanently. I had the same issue. Correspond back and forth with a potential buyer and agree on a price. I send an offer.......crickets for two days.

No more.

nobody*s_perfect · ‎04-26-2021

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
This has been talked to death for years. Adding Immediate Payment to offers and auctions is NOT as simple as many think. However, ebay IS working on it...

There are 4 possible purchase situations (at least):

1. Buy it now on an auction or fixed price listing.

2. Winning auction bid.

3. Seller accepts offer or counteroffer from buyer.

4. Buyer accepts offer or counteroffer from seller.

Right now, IPR is available only on option 1.

But logically it should be possible to add it as a contingency on option 4 as well.

luckythewinner · ‎04-26-2021

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
This has been talked to death for years. Adding Immediate Payment to offers and auctions is NOT as simple as many think. However, ebay IS working on it...
There are 4 possible purchase situations (at least):

1. Buy it now on an auction or fixed price listing.
2. Winning auction bid.
3. Seller accepts offer or counteroffer from buyer.
4. Buyer accepts offer or counteroffer from seller.

Right now, IPR is available only on option 1.

But logically it should be possible to add it as a contingency on option 4 as well.

I absolutely agree.

But I suspect that during development, someone made a design decision along the way that rendered the IPR and Offer code incompatible with each other.

As a software engineer, I can't count the number of times I have had to explain to management that "doing X would be incredibly easy, if only the first developer had just done Y instead of Z."

byrd69er · ‎04-26-2021

As a webmaster, I ran into issues with previous code being poorly executed, and needing an overhaul in order to get pages to display according to our standards. Sometimes. we'd even get a order from national that certain old code needed to be removed so it would not mess with code in a page they were about to issue to us. That became a real issue in the private contractor software we were stuck with. It could not scan folders full of pages for certain code.

In my civil engineering role, I often had to spend 2-4 hours working on a drawing from a previous draftsperson because they really did not know how to use AutoCAD and fudged half of the entities in the drawing.

Fun fun fun.

Training staff and then having them leave is a problem. Not training staff and having them stay is a bigger problem.