Of course I did your "4 click" procedure. I understand how ebay works after 24 yrs. I don't understand, however, why ebay won't remove chronically delinquent non-payers.
Probably because the buyer can simply open another account or use a guest account to purchase. Unlike sellers buyers can use their accounts with a VPN and thwart any attempts by eBay to block them from opening another account or using a guest account.
I would much rather have the occasional non-payment than I would have to deal with a return or a request for a refund. There are a LOT of reasons a buyer may not have paid for the item. Unlike BIN items where you know the buyer is sitting at their computer and made the purchase real-time. With auctions a bid could have been placed early and over the next xx days a lot could have happened. The buyer could have died, had a medical or family emergency, been impacted by a natural disaster........... There is no real way to tell why they did not pay.
As a side note most of the items you are selling, commodity type things, could be listed BIN with immediate payment required and no OBO. Auctions are well suited for some items not so much for others.
