New to us note added to auto pay line

[steve_stuff]

Have seen the auto pay note before but for a shorter time frame - remember it as an hour at most, and never with the other two lines. 

"Buyer wants to shop more" - with who, us? And is that why the auto pay date is a week away? AND what about the 'four days then file non payer' deal? Is that overridden by the auto pay? 

'may check out early' I hope so.  The other non auto pay auction winners with same sold time as 'you' have already paid.

[heckofagame]

Exciting News for Auction Sellers Who Offer Combined Shipping

[ittybitnot]

and never with the other two lines. 

@steve_stuff 

According to the link provided by @heckofagame  it looks like you are in the "test".  Sort of sounds like it defeats the auto-billing for auctions  by still requiring the buyer to put up one of the limited payment choices up front while allowing to select a "pay by" date days ahead anyway.  

If you don't wish to participate, I suppose you can NOT select to offer combined shipping and your buyers will be billed separately with full price shipping on multiple wins with no invoicing as before. 

Or

You can simply turn off the "buyer rule" and allow combined invoicing and request total functions as before.  

[steve_stuff]

OK

"Sort of sounds like it defeats the auto-billing for auctions by still requiring the buyer to put up one of the limited payment choices up front while allowing to select a "pay by" date days ahead anyway."

We have no problem with being paid - today would be nice but just guaranteed to happen is fine with us.

"If you don't wish to participate [we do], I suppose you can NOT select to offer combined shipping" - didn't know we did offer it.

That link said because of the combine bit people who bought two or more wasn't auto paid. That's why the guy who bought one item and then three a few weeks later was auto paid for the first single item and not the three.

But if this guy wanting to bid on other auction[s] of ours, they all end the same day/time next Sunday. If he would have bid on both at same time we would have contacted them and made arrangements to wait on first item.

[ittybitnot]

@steve_stuff 

Unless you use the auction format (or use the Best Offer feature), you or your buyers would not be affected by any "auto-billing" aka auto pay situation.   Up until the recent "not for everyone test" the following preferences that eBay dropped on your account with the default to YES would result in separate payments for any offers or auctions won by BUYER IDs that eBay forced into compliance to provide a payment source in order to proceed.  Combined shipping could not be employed, and invoicing was not allowed since everything was paid for already. 

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer Rules:

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.

These served to limit the choices a buyer can use to pay, AND removed invoicing/combining items for one shipping price.  So up until you were enrolled in this test, and I won ten of your auctions, my card would be billed ten times at full shipping each for each auction I won.   ( Actually, that would never happen since I am warned with the screen that requires I put up the payment source in order to proceed, and I would just back out and shop someplace else).  

In addition, if you ever SEND offers, and you happen to send multiples to the same buyer, they no longer have an "accept" feature, and must pay for each separately at full shipping price.  These, as well as any counter offers you accept, are now all immediate payment required, cannot be combined for one price to save both you and the buyer money.  This is eBay's new plan, and applies to everyone.  These remain for sale until paid for, including any counter offers you accepted from your buyer.  

Some sellers will still put multiple items in one parcel and ship them together.  Some sellers will keep the extra money, as there is no rule saying they can't.  Other sellers will ship items together and provide a refund to the buyer for some of the excess. 

Advice is to ASK THE SELLER first....LOL... I did ask the seller after I got quite a few "offers" if I bought them all would they refund the excess shipping I would be required to pay.  The seller said yes, so I made the multiple purchase only to be refunded nothing.  Good thing I only bought half of them, since $60.00 shipping for ten pieces of jewelry would have been entirely too much. $30 for five brooches earned the buyer some red donuts. 

[steve_stuff]

Thank you for posting this. Why it wasn't sent as a message to all sellers who do auction ... classic ebay - spend time and money doing something they think we would want, and then post about it someplace most people don't go to/read/check.  I guess they thought that we didn't need to be told.

[steve_stuff]

"So up until you were enrolled in this test, and I won ten of your auctions, my card would be billed ten times at full shipping each for each auction I won."

I don't think so - spoke about "That's why the guy who bought one item and then three a few weeks later was auto paid for the first single item and not the three" above.

he was auto paid for the first single item an hour after auction ended. When he bid on the other three he was already signed up for auto, AND we had sent him a message saying to wait for invoice with corrected shipping if he won two or more of them. And if it had been used, we believed they would have the same hour window, plenty of time for us to send the invoice.

"Actually, that would never happen since I am warned with the screen that requires I put up the payment source in order to proceed, and I would just back out and shop someplace else"

As a lot of what we sell is pretty much the cheapest or just the only one on ebay, 'someplace else' is rarely an option.  

And when it comes time for us to buy record mailer, if 'it' want the card info first, fine by me.

[ed8108]

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@ittybitnot wrote:

@steve_stuff 
Advice is to ASK THE SELLER first....LOL... I did ask the seller after I got quite a few "offers" if I bought them all would they refund the excess shipping I would be required to pay.  The seller said yes, so I made the multiple purchase only to be refunded nothing

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 Does ebay care ?

I would guess ebay's famous

" Money back guarantee" fails to address this matter

[steve_stuff]

"They may check out early"

In the end the guy wound up paying ten hours after the sale ended.

Everybody have a good day.

[marty_look]

  If the seller did not refund your excess shipping cost you can tell him you expect him to mail them all separately or get negative feedback from you.