It's enormously disruptive to accept a buyer's offer, end an auction early, then have them try to negotiate the price after the fact. And then you have to wait days until starting an UID, then that takes days or even weeks to resolve, I don't know the exact times but whatever it is it's way too long. I can't think of a scenario where sellers should be held hostage to buyers ponying up like this for days and days. It should be like 12 or 24 hours and then the buyer's card is automatically charged or an UID dispute resolved in the seller's favor, allowing them to relist without paying cancellation fees. If it's a weekend- well, figure it out, you charge the card and it goes through on Monday, or the UID is resolved and the sale is cancelled.
And of course, buyers can't get negative feedback, strikes don't show up to sellers so 'buyers' can scam and disrupt multiple sellers before getting booted, and can easily make new accounts if they do get strikes.
Yet another way in which eBay is a bad platform for sellers yet people keep listing with them because they have a monopoly on selling big-ticket items to a national audience, and by virtue of being the first mover in the peer-to-peer selling space, they have incumbent advantage that no one (yet) has bothered to challenge.
Maybe when Facebook decides to turn FB Marketplace into a real eBay competitor we'll start seeing some of these ridiculous policies change.
