Ebay's buyer biased policies encourage buyers not to pay for purchases

[baggio692]

The number of purchases that buyers make and then don't pay for is rediculous. What most of you don't realize is that the buyers are purchasing items and then finding the identical item for less money, and then purchasing that and not paying for what they bought from you. I have complained to Ebay for years that the simple way to avoid this is to have all purchases automatically paid for through the buyers paypal account. Ebay's policies allow buyers to decide if they want to pay for something or not. When it comes to my monthly Ebay fees I don't get to choose if I want to pay them or not. Ebay just takes the money out of my account. The same should be done for all purchases. The buyer suffers nothing from screwing a seller. Sellers cannot leave negative feedback which is why all buyers have 100% feedback. All they get is an unpaid item strike which only Ebay can see and does nothing to caution other sellers. We all need to complain about this to Ebay and maybe they will finally do something about it.

[plumbingspecials]

Oh we realize it. Just be sure to file your UPIs to get your final value fees refunded to you.
The buyer gets Unpaid Item strikes, and two of those severely limits their buying power, as most sellers will have auto block on buyers with two or more strikes. eBay doesn't warn buyers that their irresponsibility can cost them their account, they just let the buyers play without rules, then smack them with punishment once those rules are broken.
You do realize that most members do not read Terms of Service or Policies on eBay, right?

[ed8108]

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@baggio692 wrote:

What most of you don't realize is that the buyers are purchasing items and then finding the identical item for less money, and then purchasing that and not paying for what they bought from you. 

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If this is happening to you frequently, you may wish to consider NOT raising your item prices any higher than now.

[ed8108]

Agreed, that a buyer needs to check before buying to determine if a seller's items are competitively priced, not after.

[johnrj1226]

On your fixed price listings simply add the Immediate Payment Required feature to all your listings.  This had resolved any UPIs for us.  Also, you can add this feature to the Buy It Now option on your auction listings.

Read more for details - this has been around for several years.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/immediate-payment-works?id=415...

[staggcreek]

I sold a 2005 Volvo Stereo system $149.99, the buyer received the item and replied on the eBay message system that it was "excellent!" 3 days later I get the return request. I asked what the problem was and he gave me 3 completely different ridiculous stories. So he's a liar but I do returns so whatever.....I get the item back smashed AND missing parts. Ended up costing me the item - $$$ - shipping BOTH ways because it was free shipping to begin with AND eBay refused to refund eBay final valuation FEES! All totaling a little under $200 theft. I appealed the eBay descision 3 times, eBay said repeatedly "they do not guarantee returns." As a result of this incident I had to take all my most expensive merchandise down off of eBay.

[rolenboy01]

You aren't wrong they encourage all kinds of clueless and stupid behavior with their policies.