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.

releasethekraken_1 · ‎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, 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.)

No one in this thread has asked for IPR on auctions. No one in this thread has asked for IPR when a seller accepts an offer. That won't happen unless buyers give eBay access to pull money from CCs or PayPal accounts, and if eBay tried that, the buyer exodus would look like a stampede.

The request is for IPR when the buyer accepts an offer, and it's a reasonable and logical change that shouldn't take an act of God to implement.