topic Re: BIN immediate payment in Selling

BIN immediate payment

bellmatho73 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:16:30 GMT

Have had 3 BIN orders bought today ( on another account) but were not paid for straight away which was very unusal as immediate payment is normally enforced on BIN items so I guess ebay have taken away the forced payment. Now I had change all my listings to be immediate payment on BIN, if things change wish we were notified before hand so we could prepare. Also had to change brand & UPC on every listing which was not fun. Has this happened to others too over the last couple of days.

Re: BIN immediate payment

davewil1964 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:22:36 GMT

Immediate payment has always, theoretically, been a seller choice. Most people would pay immediately for BINs, but it's certainly not a given.

I don't have it and never had. Luckily eBay has yet to impose it on me, which seems to be the case for others, but it is not an official policy.

It you want to ensure immediate payment, and have no interest in combining postage or offering volume discounts, set it yourself. It's your account and your responsibility, not eBay's, to manage it the way YOU want.

Re: BIN immediate payment

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:23:15 GMT

Am I reading correctly that when you listed the items with the BIN you DID, when you listed tick the immediate payment required ?

I do not have any items listed for sale at the moment, but when I do list items, I always have to also tick the immediate payment required box myself for each item

Was the other account a store account ?

Re: BIN immediate payment

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:34:29 GMT

If you sell in the clothing or home & garden categories ebay announced very recently that they'd be enforcing the brand and UPC specifics. They've been warning about having to include item specifics for a long time now. It pays to look at the seller centre regularly and keep up with the latest changes.

Re: BIN immediate payment

bellmatho73 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:38:02 GMT

The immediate payment was not my choice it was forced on me when I started my store. I never had the immediate payment ticked on my listings it was something that just automatically happened.

Re: BIN immediate payment

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:42:15 GMT

So if you didn't want it, why are you complaining about not having it now?

Are you sure your buyers didn't request a total, ie they bought but they're waiting for an invoice? Or that they didn't select bank deposit rather than paypal?

It could just be a glitch. They've been known to happen on ebay.

Re: BIN immediate payment

bellmatho73 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:51:49 GMT

There are other ways to offer combined postage & volume discounts which I have in place. I did want the immediate payment it just would of been nice to get a heads up that it was going to change so I could of get things sorted before it acutally happened & was curious as to weather it changed for others in the same position as me.

Re: BIN immediate payment

*tippy*toes* — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:08:54 GMT

I was another that had immediate payment forced upon me, only I don't want it. I haven't sold anything for a few days so not sure if it's changed for me as well. If I do sell something over the weekend (my busiest time), I'll report back to you.

Edit: well blow me down, I just got 2 sales from one buyer. They requested an invoice. Either my forced immediate payment has been switched off too, or they added the items to the cart and then requested an invoice.

Re: BIN immediate payment

khulu74 — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:18:36 GMT

You are totally wrong !!! Yes, eBay is responsible if there will be any changes on things/futures especially forced by eBay when setting up stores. No need to blame store owners for this eBay’s own laziness 🤷🏼‍♂️

Re: BIN immediate payment

countessalmirena — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:56:44 GMT

@khulu74,

I don't think you have quite read davewil's post thoroughly...

If sellers do want to implement Immediate Payment, it is, generally speaking, something that sellers select in their settings. Notwithstanding, sometimes eBay will impose it on selling accounts without the seller actually selecting it.

I haven't seen anything in davewil's post that suggests eBay does not have glitches or interfere.

@davewil1964 wrote:

Luckily eBay has yet to impose it on me, which seems to be the case for others, but it is not an official policy.

In other words, davewil states that eBay hasn't forced immediate payment on him, but he acknowledges that this forcing seems to be the case for some other sellers. He also states that having immediate payment is not official policy.

So... I'm not sure why you respond to davewil's post with "You are totally wrong !!!" and "Yes, eBay is responsible if there will be any changes [...] forced by eBay" and "No need to blame store owners for this eBay's own laziness", since daveil has not posted anything to the contrary.

Re: BIN immediate payment

bellmatho73 — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 01:34:34 GMT

Thank you Khulu for backing me up, in davewils post he kind of contradicts himself by admitting that ebay does impose immediate payment on some sellers with that I dont have any control over, then yet he says its up to me to manage it the way I want. How can I manage something when its forced on me..

Re: BIN immediate payment

countessalmirena — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:34:51 GMT

@bellmatho73,

davewil has not contradicted himself. He says that if you do want Immediate Payment enabled, generally speaking it's up to the seller himself/herself to select it.

He also states that eBay anecdotally impose Immediate Payment upon some seller accounts. He adds that this has not happened to him personally (hence "anecdotally" which is implied in his post).

Any contradiction comes from eBay's on/off fiddling with some accounts, not from davewil.

I'm sorry that Immediate Payment has been imposed on your account without your knowledge or wish. tippy*toes has posted that this has also happened to her. If I read your posts correctly, you actually don't mind having Immediate Payment...? It's just that it was enabled on your account with your knowledge...? If that's the case, at least it's not as dreadful as if you definitely didn't want Immediate Payment at all.

I hope you have now been able to sort out your listings to take advantage of the Immediate Payment. (You could always try ringing eBay if you don't actually want the Immediate Payment option, but from what I have heard, eBay CS reps will claim not to know why it's happening on your account, that no one else has made a complaint, and that they will pass on your concern to technical support. (The latter two points will not be true.)

Re: BIN immediate payment

*tippy*toes* — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 03:28:59 GMT

@khulu74 wrote:
You are totally wrong !!! Yes, eBay is responsible if there will be any changes on things/futures especially forced by eBay when setting up stores. No need to blame store owners for this eBay’s own laziness 🤷🏼‍♂️

I don't have a store on any of my accounts. Dave has stores on most of his accounts. I have been forced into immediate payment against my will, he hasn't.

If you were forced, and didn't like it, but then decided you did like it and they took it away, for heaven's sakes, change your settings to immediate payment. You don't have to change each individual listing, the setting is in your preferences. It will add it to all your listings in an instant. Simple as that.

I just wish they'd take it away from me.