So there's an option to have buyers who accept and make offers pay immediately if they're accepted. In my store that is NOT turned on. I checked my settings after I got this from one of my regular buyers:
BTW, no one else received the offer. She sent me a message and I "replied with offer" directly to her. (That's why it was such a good discount, she buys 40-50 tokens at a time from me and bids on all my 99 cent auctions).
I told her to just check out, and then I went and refunded 2.65 shipping on each one... mind you eBay is making 30 cents, but I don't think lots of buyers will trust their seller will refund shipping overages when this kind of thing happens. In my experience as a buyer, lots of sellers are not very flexible. They don't send you combined shipping invoices when their listing says they will, and when you just go ahead and pay to avoid a non payment strike, they don't bother to refund the overage you paid, even though their listing says they will. (I've just learnt not to believe anything anyone tells me unless trust has been established).
I got a message last night from someone wanting some tokens. He tells me that it was asking for $100 in shipping for all the things in his cart. (It was international, so my 5.80 promo would not apply. He did not accept offers, these were organic sales of items put in his cart). I tell him that there's nothing I can do if there's no request total button (I told him to use a computer, but that doesn't work well either, eBay tells them I don't combine shipping). I would just have to refund the overage.
Then my potential buyer "goes away" and doesn't buy them. I think that's the norm and I should count my lucky stars if people believe me (and when I refund the shipping overage once, they keep coming back and don't worry about shipping charges anymore).
What is the POINT of having an option to require payment on acceptance of an offer if eBay is going to FORCE that on my buyers when I didn't even enable that in my settings? The aforementioned buyer (in the screen shot above) has been able to accept some offers, but on that particular day she couldn't.
BTW, I yanked multiple items several times in the past two weeks to make a combined listing for someone so they could buy it now and check out with correct shipping (because it wasn't working for them to buy items one at a time with payment being required each time). To avoid what happened to the other poster with someone else jumping at the listing, I posted a really not so great photo that didn't show much, and didn't include everything I was offering. I sent him a photo of everything we agreed on (for him to verify I got all the tokens). There's trust there too because there's still not known in the listing, but I didn't want someone else to see good stuff and grab it when I was simply trying to help my buyer be able to pay with combined shipping. (Another international sale, so the cart wasn't working on this one either).
With all these issues, this is not a great platform for anyone who sells multiples to get into because it causes buyers so many issues when they want to buy more than one item (and get combined shipping costs).
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Then she emailed me to share the screenshot and explain the offer I sent her required her to check out right away.
@sin-n-dex
Sometimes the buyer gets a normal one with an accept button, sometimes not. I know exactly what you are talking abut. It is not related to your buyer requirements settings which version appears to the buyer. I think in the second link I gave you in message # 3, the OP insists that the application was random as to what happened to buyer generated offers. Some were accepted by the buyer and went into awaiting payment, others did not (likely they went into "morph" mode and changed into YOU MADE AN OFFER. Buyers got no notice their offers were accepted.
So some require the buyer to check out, others do not, and nobody knows why. It has been very difficult collecting evidence from people new to the discussion boards that seemingly think the posters are making this all up because "it never worked that way in the past". My favorite was the accusation that I worked for eBay....LOL....
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These are two different offers I received from two different sellers. These were items in my watch list. Note the first one has no accept offer button. The second one does. The second one I accepted (and paid for) mostly because I wanted the screen shots.
Though I know the first seller DOES retain the buyer requirements, YOU DO NOT so it wasn't the buyer requirements that are the tell here. The second seller, I don't know since they don't use auctions or best offer feature at all. (My IDs are in the "too many other people had NPBs so I have to suffer payment camp" so for me it is a quick check.
So I would assume if YOU send your buyers an offer or respond to a message with an offer, nobody can predict which one your buyer may receive at this point. I have gotten more as well, and even some that display check out or decline just like yours from sellers that DO NOT retain the default to YES settings.
In the screen the first screen shot with no accept button, that listing will remain live until somebody comes by and pays.
