Do you require immediate payment?

[jeansjewelry]

When you require immediate payment:

If you do:

1 - Your buyers cannot make offers on multiple items and combine them in one payment. 

2-  Each offer is immediately processed as a single transaction so buyers pay shipping for each item. Even if you offer  combined shipping discounts, this is not implemented. 

3 - If buyers use PayPal, Ebay does not let them use their PayPal credit cards. They have to use direct debit from their checking account. 

I canceled my purchases because of this. I wonder if buyers are discouraged from buying from me. 

I have no sales - this has never happened to me before.

[johnrj1226]

This time of year is when there  are  bargains on appliances as the 2025 models will be coming to your friendly Home Improvement  Store.  I do shop at  Lowes & Home Depot   Worked part time after I retired - just to  get out of my wife's way and to play golf more often & when it ain't  weekend crowded - at a  Sears "Country" store when they were still alive  but barely kicking in 2007.  Kinda like the car dealers do up thru January - they want to move them to avoid paying property taxes on last  years models.  Seldom did/do buy a new  vehicle - worst investment  one can make - a  forever a depreciating asset -  buy two yo  off lease  with low  mileage ( always with some factory warranty remaining) and  all recalls completed, if any,  lease contract  signed.  Haven't  been stung yet.

Don't  worry  was raised to spend & save wisely.

[mam98031]

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@johnrj1226 wrote:

When I go to any  retail store and buy multiple stuff I never get a a volume discount and pay  full  amount of  sales tax and some time  delivery costs like on appliances, lawn tractors  sod, multiple bags of mulch etc.  The pizza delivery person expect s a nice  tip - some people  enjoy  stiffing them  and their hairdresser and waiter, etc

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Not apples to apples.  Shipping to your home is not part of this kind of transaction.

[mam98031]

Our local Lowes has sales like that a couple times of  year.  Sometimes it has come in quite handy.

[mam98031]

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@mamacassidy wrote:

@iamalwaysright

ebay refunds fees on the refunded amount

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Yes, as long as it is a voluntary refund by the seller.

[tarotfindsandmore]

I require immediate payment on everything in my store.  Offers don't allow it, but the item remains live for other buyers until payment has been made so I'm fine with that.

The logic for requiring immediate payment is pretty simple for me.  I don't sell a single thing that anyone actually needs so I don't want to mess around with buyers who can't afford the items if they can't afford them at the time they want to buy them. 

If I sold clothes, or certain electronics, or even auto parts, I might be more flexible but when all you sell is pretty little baubles, toys, fun accessories, and tarot cards, there's no reason a buyer should be breaking the bank for your items.  I sell the things that people buy after they've taken care of the important stuff so, basically, my items are the things that should be purchased with discretionary income.

[brightlightbookseller]

We're pretty chill.  We give buyers 15 days to combine orders, since that benefits us and the customer, and then with 4 days after that to pay by eBay's rules, our orders get 19 days from the initial order to pay before they're automatically cancelled, and I believe we have 3 users on our exception list who we don't even enforce that timeframe on. I know many eBay sellers can't risk having items sit unpaid for that long, but it doesn't affect us much.  I never deal with any manual cancellations over non-payment either, I just occasionally see a message from eBay saying an order was cancelled and the item was relisted.  Easy-peasy.