topic Re: Fed up with unpaid items in Selling

Fed up with unpaid items

retroragsaustralia — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:56:04 GMT

I am so fed up with getting constant un paid items. The penalties for unpaid items is obviously non exisitent as i think i have almost as many unpaid item cases as actual paid sales

Just very fed up with impulse buyers who use us small sellers as their impulse fix.

I know you dont get charged for the listings by ebay but they do cut into potential real sales especially off buyers who are genuinely buy multiple items off you.

Would like to see a discussion thread on this issue

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

collect247 — Tue, 31 May 2016 01:11:25 GMT

Buyers are Angels and can do no wrong,they are ebays bread and butter lol.

It's better that they don't pay compared to them opening cases for items not received or as described.

They are better off getting a non payment strike than you getting a defect.

And make sure you put them all in your BBL

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

davidc4430 — Tue, 31 May 2016 01:24:07 GMT

yep, good points, ebay wont change the rules in my opinion.

all we can do is have our blocks in place to stop anyone with more than 2 unpaid item strikes from buying/bidding

add any non payers to our blocked lists, so they get the 2 strikes as soon as possible.

and carry on selling.

yes its a pain that we have to go through the whole case sometimes before relisting. can be 12 days.

but thats the rules ebays created, 4 days to pay, 4 extra days once the case is opened, add 2 weekends into it.

don't let the non payers get you down.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

imastawka — Tue, 31 May 2016 01:50:03 GMT

I was going to suggest instant payment, but I see you run auctions

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

kopenhagen5 — Tue, 31 May 2016 02:59:47 GMT

I am suggesting the same.

If most of your auctions sell with one bid, change them to BIN's and have immediate payment set.

Many buyers are as you say impulse and more likely to pay immediately rather than after many days of an auction end.

I also think your sales will increase slightly when buyers don't need to wait.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

*tippy*toes* — Tue, 31 May 2016 04:08:14 GMT

I run auctions, but have a BIN option. Of course that option disappears once a bid is placed, but it still gives people the option. As most of my auctions sell with only one bid, I'm usually happy to end early if a buyer asks. There's a couple of things I don't, but most I will on request.

I'm wondering if the OP does have blocks in place?

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

imastawka — Tue, 31 May 2016 04:27:47 GMT

Is this the part now where we look at the OP's listings and fb?

OP - it would be better if you took the photos in full sun.

The shade makes them very difficult to see IMO

And your neutral - I wouldn't want to pay $8.25 and have it turn up for $2 either

You can't sell an item for $2 and take your profit out of postage

(and BTW, I can see the stain mentioned, in your photo)

Now, everybody can jump down my throat

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

lyndal1838 — Tue, 31 May 2016 04:45:31 GMT

retroragsaustralia wrote:.
Would like to see a discussion thread on this issue

Oh please, not another discussion on unpaid items!!

There are already numerous threads on the same subject if you take the time to look around the boards. There is only so much that can be said on the subject.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

lyndal1838 — Tue, 31 May 2016 04:59:07 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Is this the part now where we look at the OP's listings and fb?

OP - it would be better if you took the photos in full sun.
The shade makes them very difficult to see IMO

And your neutral - I wouldn't want to pay $8.25 and have it turn up for $2 either
You can't sell an item for $2 and take your profit out of postage

(and BTW, I can see the stain mentioned, in your photo)

Now, everybody can jump down my throat

I fully agree with everything you say Stawks.

The OP would have been better off not replying to the feedback....denying the bleedin' obvious is not a good look.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

collect247 — Tue, 31 May 2016 05:45:51 GMT

It all depends on what you're selling as alot things auctions are the way to go

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

springyzone — Tue, 31 May 2016 06:05:18 GMT

Stawka was right, there was what looks like some kind of make up/powder mark on the middle of the bra.

Mind you, the buyer should have noticed it too, before buying.

All the same, i would expect a seller to mention it.

But.. that is one of the customers who paid.

I would tend to agree with what a lot of others put up about maybe having buy it now, but bump up the price of the item, even if it is $10 and includes 'free' postage, I think people will still pay & a lot of people do like immediate purchases. If you're getting people who don't pay, it could be they have cooled before they even win the auction. Better to have them able to buy outright and pay immediately, then if they repent at leisure, they are the ones with a problem.

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Tippy, I saw this:

Maybe it is just me, but I would feel pushy if I asked a seller to finish an auction before time. It's just something I don't think I could bring myself to do, because it's obvious that a seller will get at least what i have bid for it but if the auction goes on, they may even get more if someone else bids.

On the other hand where it has a buy it now or make an offer, I would not dream of buying till after I have made a slightly lower offer to see how I go.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

heihachi_73 — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:49:26 GMT

Sounds like this: Seller wraps item, person at PO says it can fit through as a large letter, seller sends it as a large letter instead of a 500g satchel, but doesn't refund the buyer the difference. I also see CDs and a DVD being sold on the OP's account with $7.45 postage when two stamps is sufficient.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

thecatspjs — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:35:29 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
retroragsaustralia wrote:.
Would like to see a discussion thread on this issue
Oh please, not another discussion on unpaid items!!
There are already numerous threads on the same subject if you take the time to look around the boards. There is only so much that can be said on the subject.

This is the OPs IDs first ever post.

Whilst Lyndal you claim to have "discussed" unpaid items numerous times, the OP has not actually participated in these discussion boards under their OP ID.

This is a "discussion" board for all eBay members - without any prerequisites to posting.

Gosh its now been several years that I have been around to witness continual posts by a handful of posters that actively discourage sellers from discussing the issues / opinions of the day and posting their view.

OP, over several years I have personally and publicly lamented the lack of system development by eBay regarding non-payers.

Whilst I think there have been some minor improvements, I certainly continue to share your frustration and think that it is valuable that you share your view on these discussion boards so that eBay sellers view is on the record, so that it might also stimulate discussion amongst existing and new eBay sellers that may stumble across the boards one day, and so that the current position / opinions by sellers on the boards is not unfairly skewed by a very very very very teeny tiny number of eBay members.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

lyndal1838 — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:45:20 GMT

@thecatspjs wrote:

Whilst Lyndal you claim to have "discussed" unpaid items numerous times, the OP has not actually participated in these discussion boards under their OP ID.

Maybe you need to read my post again Cats......I did not claim to have discussed unpaid items numerous times.

I simply told the OP that there are numerous theads on the subject on the boards if they look.....and there IS only so much that can be said on the subject.

There are so few members on the boards these days that you will only get the same old opinions anyway.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

thecatspjs — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:50:58 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
@thecatspjs wrote:
Whilst Lyndal you claim to have "discussed" unpaid items numerous times, the OP has not actually participated in these discussion boards under their OP ID.

Maybe you need to read my post again Cats......I did not claim to have discussed unpaid items numerous times.

I simply told the OP that there are numerous theads on the subject on the boards if they look.....and there IS only so much that can be said on the subject.

There are so few members on the boards these days that you will only get the same old opinions anyway.

I have heard your advice/ opinion / response to new posters re an issue to them being a non issue due to "other threads on the same topic " so many hundreds, indeed. thousands of times it is now IMO spam.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

thecatspjs — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:55:16 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
retroragsaustralia wrote:.
Would like to see a discussion thread on this issue
Oh please, not another discussion on unpaid items!!
There are already numerous threads on the same subject if you take the time to look around the boards. There is only so much that can be said on the subject.
The OP has never posted anything on this subject or any other subject for that matter

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

lyndal1838 — Tue, 31 May 2016 13:05:13 GMT

@thecatspjs wrote:
@lyndal1838 wrote:
retroragsaustralia wrote:.
Would like to see a discussion thread on this issue
Oh please, not another discussion on unpaid items!!
There are already numerous threads on the same subject if you take the time to look around the boards. There is only so much that can be said on the subject.
The OP has never posted anything on this subject or any other subject for that matter

In that case he/she would not know about the other threads on the subject which makes my comment completely relevant to the subject.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

thecatspjs — Tue, 31 May 2016 13:09:13 GMT

"There is only so much that can be said on this subject"

um... yet.....the same very very very very very few teeny weeny amount of ebay members/posters say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again :

how strange ?

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

davewil1964 — Tue, 31 May 2016 13:13:45 GMT

@thecatspjs wrote:
"There is only so much that can be said on this subject"

um... yet.....the same very very very very very few teeny weeny amount of ebay members/posters say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again :

how strange ?

Makes sense. If there were more things that could be said, they would be said. As they aren't...

i note, as per usual, you have attacked other posters rather than actually address the OP's issue.

Re: Fed up with unpaid items

padi*0409 — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:40:06 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:

i note, as per usual, you have attacked other posters rather than actually address the OP's issue.

Nothing changes in the world of the boards, some great advice from some, some DW's appearing now and then.......