Non-Payment

[crystalhotice25]

Why? is there a processing date listed but when that date arrives, still NO payment come on now!, Not fair I could of sold the item twice over waiting this time grace period, its wrong and hurts your profit, if there is a date NO matter what it should be paid on that day, no excuses, " not the right credit card on file? How is that even possible? That's when I think eBay should be held reliable and they need to pay for the item! And we get to relist it. I mean your making US wait on false hope not 1 day not even 3 days but 9 days depending on the weekend....NOT right this is a business needs to be ran like one, Are they even getting the defect like you say?

[ebooksdiva]

How does waiting on your payment hurt your profit? 

Were you expecting a payout today?

Today is a federal holiday, banks are closed.

[out2seafishing]

This is a tough Post for a response based on the info provided.

I'll try to pick it apart.

. Processing date?

Do you create a shipping label and ship the item on time.

You get paid when the item you ships arrives to the customers destination, usually after 48 hours after item is delivered.

. How could you sell the same item twice because you were waiting for payment?

Do you have more than 1 item that is exactly the same and possibly selling multiple same items?

.  "Not the right credit card on file".

Do you have an updated credit card on file for Selling?

. "That's when I think eBay should be held reliable and they need to pay for the item! And we get to relist it.

Not sure what the finer details are. Why should eBay pay for item that at this point, a shipping label was created with tracking and it was shipped on time and received? Was it not received?

. "I mean your making US wait on false hope not 1 day not even 3 days but 9 days depending on the weekend....NOT right this is a business needs to be ran like one, Are they even getting the defect like you say?"

The item was received, shipped on time and the customer complained the item was defective?

[stainlessenginecovers]

 102 items sold 90 days average $40 so that is $4000. Assuming that much since Jan 1, you sold over $ 10000 and should be holding a few grand for taxes so just borrow from that and show in your books an amount 'pending'. Problem solved. 

[12345jamesstamps]

For quick payments to sellers there is "Express Payouts' the next day after 9PM if buyer pays the day before for only $2.00.

For auctions you can have the items listed for immediate payment after winning..of course that hurts buyers who win multiple auctions.

I love holidays...it's an extra day for me to not ship anything out.

Today is a holiday..thus your 3 business day shipping...today is a non business day for shipping.

[mam98031]

@crystalhotice25 

As a seller you have choices to make when you create your listings.  For your Fixed Price listings you can set them up to require immediate payment.  So no one can actually purchase the item unless they pay for it too.  That is the easiest fix to your issues for these listings.

As for your auctions, you would need to make sure you are not offering Combined shipping anywhere so you could require your buyers to set up how they are going to pay for the item within an hour of the auction closing.  But if you want to still offer Combined shipping, buyers can option to take up to 7 days to pay.

[luckythewinner]

Why? is there a processing date listed but when that date arrives, still NO payment come on now!

Can you expain in detail what you are talking about?

Are you talking about a buyer not paying for an item?

Are you talking about eBay not processing the buyer's payment fast enough? 

Are you talking about funds put on hold by eBay? 

Are you talking about the payout to your bank account not happening? 

 if there is a date NO matter what it should be paid on that day, no excuses

Again, exactly what are you talking about? What date where? WHat should be paid? To whom?

That's when I think eBay should be held reliable and they need to pay for the item! 

Aew you suggesting that if a buyer does not pay for an item, eBay should be forced to buy it from you? 

 Are they even getting the defect like you say?

Buyers do not get "defects". They get non-payment strikes. 

My assumption is that you are complaining that buyers who win your auctions are not paying them in a timely manner. If so, that is one of the drawbacks of the auction format on eBay, and the reason so many sellers here use fixed price listings.

The vast majority of your 'sold' listings appear to be auctions with one or two bids selling very near the starting price. A switch to fixed price might greatly reduce this issue, if I am interpreting your post correctly. 

[reelworks]

If your talking about a delay in eBay payouts, I've sort of figured it was just them trying to hold onto your money for as long as possible or their way of trying to push sellers into paying extra for instant payments. 

I for one am not paying them for instant payments, its never going to happen. Sales here lately have simply not been that great and every little bit counts.

What I've never been able to figure out is the partial payouts.  For instance, I sell an item that nets me $20 on a Wed. Come the following Monday, I get a payout for that item for $11, leaving a balance at eBay even after the item has been delivered. Then five or six days later the rest will payout, often part of another payout finally leaving a zero balance. 

Most items get paid out before they're delivered, delivery seems to have no effect on payouts for me or the items I list at work. 

Feedback has become a rare occurrence in recent years so that also can't have any effect on payouts. At work, we have found that less then 2% of buyers leave feedback these days. Our policy has always been to not leave feedback until the buyer leaves feedback. A process that started with the old listing software.  The type of items we generally sell don't warrant feedback in most cases either. We sell mostly surplus inventory, with most items being auto parts, sporting goods, or  collectibles. Only the latter generally sees any feedback but even then its rare. 

I think if payouts depended on feedback being left, we would rarely get paid. I really think most buyers feel its more trouble than its worth to leave feedback. 

25 years ago everyone left feedback, so feedback count numbers rose fast, but now, a new account can take years to gain significant feedback numbers.