eBay

nealla30 · ‎03-07-2019

Buyer with 0 feedback and clearly obvious fake user name wins auction.

Buyer doesn't pay.

Seller opens Unpaid Item case - waits out the time - closes case and gets Fees refunded.

Buyer gets an unpaid strike.

Buyer simply makes new Ebay Account and starts over.

I do understand why Ebay can't let us Block Buyers with 0 feedbacks, but there has to be something else they can think of?

This has happened to me so many times I have lost count. Just a pain in the neck on my end. Having to wait it out to get the refund and to relist the item only to go another 7 day auction and have the same thing happen again!

Just frustrating and needed to voice that!

monster-deals · ‎03-08-2019

I don't understand the concept of even having it when a buyer can just pay and file a SNAD.

It fairly toothless.

hillbillymedia · ‎03-08-2019

@around-the-block wrote:
"Just to make a point....a user that doesn`t pay isn`t a buyer."

Right but the seller still got charged a fee. Not all sellers are diligent and follow up on every single unpaid item to make sure they get their fees back. Ebay is COUNTING on that happening with a certain percentage of sellers. Even if only one out of a 10,000 doesn't get their fees back that is more money for ebay.

Yup. I have never liked the fact that ebay charges a seller FVF`s PRIOR to the seller getting paid. Why call it a "final value fee" if the sale is never finalized?

Ebay also gains plenty of relisting fees when the buyer doesn`t pay or cancels the transaction. There is no justification for charging a relisting fee in these cases IMO.

"There`s always barber college" - Dalton - Road House

twnpopcards · ‎03-08-2019

@hillbillymedia wrote:
@around-the-block wrote:
"Just to make a point....a user that doesn`t pay isn`t a buyer."

Right but the seller still got charged a fee. Not all sellers are diligent and follow up on every single unpaid item to make sure they get their fees back. Ebay is COUNTING on that happening with a certain percentage of sellers. Even if only one out of a 10,000 doesn't get their fees back that is more money for ebay.
Yup. I have never liked the fact that ebay charges a seller FVF`s PRIOR to the seller getting paid. Why call it a "final value fee" if the sale is never finalized?

Ebay also gains plenty of relisting fees when the buyer doesn`t pay or cancels the transaction. There is no justification for charging a relisting fee in these cases IMO.

Can you imagine the amount of interest that Ebay earns on all of the FVF that they wind up having to refund? I am sure that is a massive amount which Ebay could probably no longer survive without, or at least not be able to show that they had any growth whatsoever. By collecting the fees up front from Sellers and then refunding them, albeit reluctantly since Sellers must go through various steps to get that refund, Ebay gets interest free loans from its Sellers and collects interest on the money while they have it, the best of both worlds.

nkpina2014 · ‎03-12-2019

@hillbillymedia wrote:
Yup. I have never liked the fact that ebay charges a seller FVF`s PRIOR to the seller getting paid. Why call it a "final value fee" if the sale is never finalized?

Ebay also gains plenty of relisting fees when the buyer doesn`t pay or cancels the transaction. There is no justification for charging a relisting fee in these cases IMO.

WAYYYYYY back when, Ebay would give you a free relist option in the case of buyers not paying as well as the FVF fee returned. I have no idea when they removed that option.