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).
C.
@sin-n-dex
This is the only Seller Generated offer I got today. The seller did retain the buyer preferences requirement in order to make an offer or bid. Since I won't comply, it was just sitting in my "watch list".
This was the form I was presented. It does not require any sort of 'immediate Check Out" , and is not a function of any buyer requirement that would show me the decline or Check out format. FWIW
