first auction

[Anonymous]

i waited 7 days auctioning off my millwaukee impact last week. super excited realy looking forward to the extra money and the *** that won still hasnt sent my payment. usualy when i won an auction i made a payment within a couple hours out of respect but i guess that's just me 

[nobody*s_perfect]

LOL!  According to eBay staff, they're the same thing.

[lacemaker3]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

I share your interpretation and also your uncertainty about its accuracy.

Verification should be pretty easy to test via first hand experience: Next time one of us has an unpaid item, wait 24 hours, send an invoice, then see if the option to cancel based on "hasn't paid" shows up after 96 hours.  

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I can't really add anything to @pburn 's or @nobody*s_perfect 's assessment here.

[valueaddedresource]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

I share your interpretation and also your uncertainty about its accuracy.

Verification should be pretty easy to test via first hand experience: Next time one of us has an unpaid item, wait 24 hours, send an invoice, then see if the option to cancel based on "hasn't paid" shows up after 96 hours.  

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@pburn  @nobody*s_perfect  - I would tend to agree with this interpretation as well, but also uncertain about the accuracy for the same reasons.

[allen1853]

So soh, you were unaware immediate payment is not available for auctions.......

[allen1853]

Keep your fingers crossed and hope buyer pays, they do have 4 days for auctions. Sadly non payers haunt the auction format. So do outright scammers. The holier than thous are coming down hard on you for being frustrated. You will just have to get used to fraudulent and inconsiderate buyers ruling the roost at eBay. Buyers can do no wrong. Buyer fraud is part and parcel of conducting business at eBay and eBay does nothing about it. Good luck going forward. Best advice is avoid auctions. List for a fair fixed price, no best offers and immediate payment. 

[femmefan1946]

Because eBay is a worldwide site, 96 hours is a better measure than four calendar days.

I'm on Pacific Time. It's 9:20pm on Monday here, and 12:20am Tuesday in Toronto. It's 10:50 am in Hyderabad. And 8:20 am in Ankara.

I'm not saying that "hours" would be eBay's interpretation, just that it should be.

If they remember that not all their customers are in the same time zone,never mind continent.

[sakic92710]

I thought exercising patients was the job of physical therapists.  😛   lol

[nanniestreasurechest]

I have mine set that eBay automatically cancels after the 4th day and the one time I had a non payer I sent a reminder invoice on the 3rd day and eBay still automatically cancelled on the 4th day.  From that I'm assuming the invoice doesn't stop the clock. 

[pburn]

Thanks for confirming!

[soh.maryl]

The "holier than thous"? As a person who responded to the original post, and on behalf of many of the rest of us, I truly resent that remark.  We were merely pointing out that (a) unless it's IPR, not everyone pays immediately and (b) that the buyer had 4 full days (or 96 hours) to pay so the bleeped out name-calling was entirely out of line.  

[coolections]

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@allen1853 wrote:

The holier than thous are coming down hard on you.  Best advice is avoid auctions. 

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@allen1853   No one was coming down hard on the OP unless you think being honest and letting them know the buyer has 96 hours to pay. Also telling the OP to skip auctions is a bad idea. They actually got higher bids then they would have had using BIN. Maybe for you it is a good idea, but many sellers love auctions.