Protection for sellers

[maj023]

I do not sell much on eBay but the handful of times that I have have not been without annoying tyre kickers/time wasters.

Bidding on items, winning the item then failing to pay.

EBay does very little to discourage this. I have looked at countless items and within the description the seller state relished due to time waster!!

Had this myself very annoying.

In my opinion eBay should implement a deposit system when the item is over certain value.

For example;

If bids go over £1000/$1000 all bidders should pay £100/$100 deposit. With the non winners having the deposit refunded. The winner having the deposit deducted from the finish sale price.

Failure to pay the winning amount the seller keeps the £100/$100 with eBay taking a percentage. Everyone wins except the time waster.

If eBay decides to use this idea. You have my bank details. Please feel free to deposit a percentage of the money you stand to gain!!

[soh.maryl]

Are you not cancelling after 4 days of nonpayment, citing buyer did not pay?

Are you unaware that an unpaid item earns a buyer a strike and that two strikes mean that most smart buyers have set their requirements not to deal with this buyer/bidder? 

[reallynicestamps]

EBay will now automatically Cancel unpaid transactions after four days have passed.

This is two to four days sooner than was possible with manual Unpaid Item Disputes.

The deadbeat still gets a Strike, which makes it more difficult to bid or buy on eBay, and cannot leave feedback.

Or you can add Immediate Payment Required to your Fixed Price listings, and the item will remain visible and available for 30 days or until someone actually pays.

More to the point.

Don't bother with Auctions.

Less than 15% of listings are now Auctions because buyers don't want to wait seven days to find they lost.

And most of the remaining Auctions have a Buy It Now or a Best Offer option, either of which ends the listing.

[pburn]

@maj023 

You've found your way onto the discussion boards for ebay.com. You're certainly welcome here; however, there are subtle, nuanced differences between ebay.com and ebay.co.uk that your fellow sellers on ebay.co.uk are better equipped to answer.

If you decide to pursue your questions on ebay.co.uk, here's a link to their discussion community:

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Discussion/ct-p/13

Good luck!

[dbfolks166mt]

     A lot of sellers will advise you to use FP or BIN listings with immediate payment required which does in fact eliminate some of the problems but both auctions and BIN formats have their pro's and con's. Which one you should use depends a lot on what you are selling. Not sure what you are listing since there are no listings associated with this account. 

     For some strange reason eBay will no implement immediate payment required on the auction format so it is what it is. I use auctions almost exclusively and have few problems with non-payment and for those that I do I just shrug it off, wait the 4 days, cancel for non-payment, add the person to my BBL, relist the item and move on.