Yeah, I am kinda tired of people accepting offers and then taking days to pay. Why are you making or accepting offers on items that you can't pay for at the time of purchase? Like I've said before on here, yes I know the auctions you have to no choice but to wait, because there is no way to make the buyer pay as soon as the auction ends, but for fixed price listings, this is the only site of know of where you can "buy" or more like RESERVE an item for yourself and the item is taken out of inventory so no one else can buy it, without you paying.
Granted this is eBay and common sense issues are like, well, common sense is not only uncommon here, it's not existent.... But what would be so hard about if a buyer wants to accept an offer that the seller has made to them, it should take the buyer to the check out page immediately, and the item is not "sold" or RESERVED for them, if they don't complete checkout at the time of accepting the offer, then they can't accept the offer.
Especially for fixed price listings with "immediate payment required" which I have all of mine set on. Why can that not be done? I'm not going to name a competitor site, but my sister uses a site to sell, that I myself have never used, but on that site, if the buyer makes the offer to the seller, the site makes them "pay" at the time of making the offer, and puts a hold on that amount on the credit card.... if the seller doesn't accept the offer, the hold is taken off, if they do, the payment is immediately put through.
Oh, and just another note, on THAT site, my sister had a package she shipped that the USPS I guess sent to the Twilight Zone, because it hadn't been scanned since August 30th.... Unlike THIS site where, even if the seller has the tracking to show the item was shipped, if the USPS loses it, eBay makes the SELLER refund the buyer, and then when it magically shows up, the seller is out their item and their money and the buyer gets a freebie.... on THAT other site, they declared it a LOST PACKAGE, and the SITE refunded the buyer out of THEIR pocket, and my sister kept her money for the sale.
Like, should a business like eBay have some kind of business insurance to cover such issues, so that us poor saps aren't losing out of money and items but the company takes it as a loss???
Sorry for ranting, but just wanted to share how things work in other places with good business policies and practices to keep both the buyer and the seller happy.
