Changing tactics when purchasing

[lsb.123]

Most sellers are really good at posting when they say they will.  But am starting to get problems with some who do nothing after payment without a bit of prompting.  I always pay as soon as I have bought an item.  Now I am going to purchase but not pay until the seller asks me too.  At least I know then there is somewhere there!  And I will ask if they are mailing straight after they receive payment.  If they don't, it will show in the feedback. 

[horizon1907]

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@lsb.123 wrote:

Most sellers are really good at posting when they say they will.  But am starting to get problems with some who do nothing after payment without a bit of prompting.  I always pay as soon as I have bought an item.  Now I am going to purchase but not pay until the seller asks me too.  At least I know then there is somewhere there!  And I will ask if they are mailing straight after they receive payment.  If they don't, it will show in the feedback. 

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Your Fb left for others is interesting to say the least.

[lane-ends]

Why would a seller deliberately delay sending something. where is the advantage in that?

[davewil1964]

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@horizon1907 wrote:

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@lsb.123 wrote:

Most sellers are really good at posting when they say they will.  But am starting to get problems with some who do nothing after payment without a bit of prompting.  I always pay as soon as I have bought an item.  Now I am going to purchase but not pay until the seller asks me too.  At least I know then there is somewhere there!  And I will ask if they are mailing straight after they receive payment.  If they don't, it will show in the feedback. 

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Your Fb left for others is interesting to say the least.

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Certanly some issues there.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I still don't get why buyers come in here spouting about making things hard for a seller. Do they think there will be no repercussions?

[davewil1964]

Presumably they have the same cavalier attitude as they do to their feedback leaving. And have no idea how eBay works, or that sellers (or anybody else with internet access) can view their posts.

[Anonymous]

No advantage, but once the seller has been paid motivation can become a little lazy

[cq_tech]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

I take it you realise that a lot of sellers read these boards, even if they do not post.

A post such as yours may ring alarm bells with many of them.  They may well decide that they would prefer not to risk dealing with you at all and add you to their Blocked Bidders List.

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Already done Lyndal, and what a coincidence you should mention that. You must be clairvoyant.

[springyzone]

Isb wrote:

Most sellers are really good at posting when they say they will.  But am starting to get problems with some who do nothing after payment without a bit of prompting.  I always pay as soon as I have bought an item.  Now I am going to purchase but not pay until the seller asks me too.  At least I know then there is somewhere there!  And I will ask if they are mailing straight after they receive payment.  If they don't, it will show in the feedback. 

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Yes it is dreary when you have to prompt a seller to post, after you have done the right thing and paid quickly.

But tell us, how is your new idea going to work, because it does not discriminate. No seller, good or bad, is going to post until you pay & if you don't pay, you might cop an unpaid item dispute, as others have mentioned. Some sellers are fed up with slow payers and won't beg, they will just go straight into dispute after 4 days.

I have a better idea for you. Buy and continue paying immediately, as you have been doing.

If you find that a seller marks it as sent and item arrives fairly promptyly, without you having to do another thing, leave positive feedback.

If on the other hand, you pay immediately and after 3 or 4 days you see no sign it has been sent, and have to ask & the reply indicates it had not been posted till you enquired, then reflect that in your star rating. Give them low stars for postage.

That way, your feddback will reflect the individual transaction, which is what it is meant to do.

I am surprised you are having this trouble. I used to sometimes strike it but I haven't lately, not in a long time.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@lsb.123 wrote:

Most sellers are really good at posting when they say they will.  But am starting to get problems with some who do nothing after payment without a bit of prompting.  I always pay as soon as I have bought an item.  Now I am going to purchase but not pay until the seller asks me too.  At least I know then there is somewhere there!  And I will ask if they are mailing straight after they receive payment.  If they don't, it will show in the feedback. 

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I know . . . . . it's not often that I have nothing to say . . . . . but this is just such an occasion

Just how old is the OP?  They sound like a petulent teenager . . . . . whahhhhhh . . . . . whahhhhh . . . . . . . whahhhhhhh!

[fixnwear]

springyzone,

I don't think that your advice to OP is a good one at all.

In fact, it almost looks as bad  idea as his was!

Exactly the same actually.

Pay, if they post straight away - fine, or pay and if they don't post for next 3/4 days then mark their stars down for postage!

That was your advice - wasn't it?

Too busy to read it all over again, but I think I have got the gist of it.

Except the sellers have every right to hold of the postage for already paid items and only post within their time frame for handling, which is always on every listing.

From what I see all over the boards, most sellers  (even those who DO post straight away) still have 3 - 5 days time in the listings  to give themselves a bit of respite and breathing space from all the carp that Ebay is dishing out of lately - and buyers, instead of helping them are trying to really screw them into the ground!

What's the big idea?

Get rid of all the sellers, intimidate them into total compliance with all this utter rubbish - and that is at the time when no seller actually has incentive any longer to bend backwards or do anything extra or above for anyone - as they would have already scored a defect (whatever that is - something obviously that's going to impede their selling on Ebay).

In a present sick climate - the oposite is what should happen:

If all buyers and sellers forget petty complaints, forgive stupid things like "instant postage as I paid straight away", "or I have a spot 

on my item " or anything else just as dumb - no one would get any defects - unless it's for something very serious - but it hardly ever is, just looking at the complaints about mostly nothing across the boards -  and Ebay just may realize that that wasn't such a great idea after all!