eBay

keziak · ‎12-20-2019

I'm waiting on more unpaid orders than usual. Two have been given reminder emails from Ebay. One guy wrote to say he'll pay Sunday so he'll get a reminder too. I wonder if more people than usual are too busy to pay? or tapped out for funds?

atikovi · ‎12-20-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
its one thing complaining about scammers, it’s totally different to complain about the inconvenience of non paying bidders. It’s just part of the business.

Not when your settings are for immediate payment.

reallynicestamps · ‎12-20-2019

@dogofwar777 wrote:
When I sold on here I would do buy it now with payments due immediately to avoid all these folks. When I buy something here I always pay immediately after I have won the auction. If I don't have the money I won't bid.

@atikovi Exactly. OP has been here for a while and should know this.

Most of these problems are on Auctions

And a high percentage of the rest are on Best Offers.

Which is why the answer is Fixed Price/Immediate Payment Required.

No haggling, no negotiations.

At this time of year-- which started at American Thanksgiving-- if the customer doesn't pay immediately the listing stays open until someone does.

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎12-20-2019

Obviously.

keziak · ‎12-21-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
Hopefully nobody complaining on this thread has ever changed their mind and returned a purchase to the store?

Some of your good buyers may have been NPBs on the sales of others. Would you prefer they take their thousands of dollars and go elsewhere? If eBay thought NPBs were costing money overall it would be a priority to deal with them. For the one person they don’t pay they could pay hundreds of others.

its one thing complaining about scammers, it’s totally different to complain about the inconvenience of non paying bidders. It’s just part of the business.

Why are scammers not a cost of doing business then?

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎12-21-2019

They are but in a different way. It’s a matter of intent. Good buyers may want to return and I have very liberal return policies and I’m ok with people returning things, it’s part of the process job.

Scammers should not be part of the job. Both cost the business money but in my opinion one is ok and the other is not.

springs_2013 · ‎12-21-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
Hopefully nobody complaining on this thread has ever changed their mind and returned a purchase to the store?

Some of your good buyers may have been NPBs on the sales of others. Would you prefer they take their thousands of dollars and go elsewhere? If eBay thought NPBs were costing money overall it would be a priority to deal with them. For the one person they don’t pay they could pay hundreds of others.

its one thing complaining about scammers, it’s totally different to complain about the inconvenience of non paying bidders. It’s just part of the business.

I appreciate it if you can quote the post when you are replying. It's hard to know which one of my replies you are directing your post, as of this moment, I am clueless. I stand my statement of "whatever happened to common courtesy?". If you don't agree, that is fine, but there is no reason why you feel justified to direct your anger at me when others share the same sentiment as mine.

springs_2013 · ‎12-21-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
They are but in a different way. It’s a matter of intent. Good buyers may want to return and I have very liberal return policies and I’m ok with people returning things, it’s part of the process job.

Scammers should not be part of the job. Both cost the business money but in my opinion one is ok and the other is not.

So, on this reply, you disagree with another poster and site it as in your opinion. It's okay for you to have an opinion different than the poster you are replying to.. soooo... why did you get in my case for agreeing with another poster and "differing opinion" than yours?

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎12-21-2019

The word is cite.

we all can have different opinions. That’s the point of the boards. If we all thought the same way it would be pointless to post here.

keziak · ‎12-21-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
They are but in a different way. It’s a matter of intent. Good buyers may want to return and I have very liberal return policies and I’m ok with people returning things, it’s part of the process job.

Scammers should not be part of the job. Both cost the business money but in my opinion one is ok and the other is not.

I don't strongly disagree but non-paying bidders are a waste of time and maybe money when the items could still be listed and maybe sell. Hard to know their intent though, it could be all over the map.

The other posters are right in that if this seriously gets on my nerves I should use immediate payment required. I'm not quite there but I admit that at the moment I am disappointed to be sitting on sales that may never be paid for. It's not like I have tons of sales to begin with.

melissa5282013 · ‎12-21-2019

Same. Can’t require immediate payment on an accepted offer.
Now eBay sets automatic “unpaid item” time to 8 days, even though I set it myself for 3 days.

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎12-21-2019

I totally agree with IPR. I think sellers should use the tools available. I just don’t like the sitting around complaining about NPBs like they’re the worst thing ever

Theres a big difference between scamming and inconvenience.

keziak · ‎12-21-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
I totally agree with IPR. I think sellers should use the tools available. I just don’t like the sitting around complaining about NPBs like they’re the worst thing ever

Theres a big difference between scamming and inconvenience.

Not to be prickly but there is a difference between a and worst thing every. For what it's worth, my NPB listings are auctions. Not sure if IPR can be used on auctions.

eleanor*rigby · ‎12-21-2019

No need to quote other members have posted.

If you click on your own member id in any comment that is posted as a reply to you, the link will take you to the post to which the reply refers; i.e., click on your own member id in my post, the link will take you to your post--Message #21--to which I'm replying.

In your Message #21, if I click on the link for "the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth," it takes me to Message #14, which is the one to which you replied.