Getting frusterated with non-payments.

[sarah41988]

I have bought and sold from ebay for years, but just in the past few months I have noticed a dramatic increase of non-paying buyers. I get so frusterated with this, so much that when I see a buyer having 20 stars or less I automatically know they probably won't pay and I don't want to discriminate against all newer ebay accounts but I am just sick and tired of having something sell, then having to re-list because the buyer never pays and never messages me back. I have noticed that these types of buyers mostly have between 5 to 20 stars, but the most common number is 11. Has anyone else noticed this? Why isn't Ebay doing something about it? Most of their money comes from us sellers and I'm just about done with selling over Ebay.

[Anonymous]

yep its really annoying

ive just closed a case this morning, and i have a new case to open tonight

todays was the first case ive had to close (mind you im a pretty new seller and ive only opened 4 cases total)

its not really bothering me at all to be honest.. i just open case/close case/relist and move on

if they pay after the case is opened then great but its not bothering me if they dont.. they can have a strike and a free entry to my BBL

[thecatspjs]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

The main reason why it is 4 days in au is to allow for the time difference as we are billed via the US time zone. Takes a while for everything to catch up and align.

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Quite bizarre theory / rationale with no basis IMO. 

[2106greencat]

I couldn't quite follow it either cats -

as far as I know, the payment period of 4 days is set in real time, pertinent to country - at least that has always been the case for me.

[haolove13]

I think the actual reason for four days is to allow time for money orders/ cheques to arrive and also it can take from Friday night till Wedenesday morning for a direct deposit to arrive if there is a public holiday in the way.

I still think that if we can not leave negative feedback for these clowns , we should at least be able to see how many unpaid item strikes they have,

If they can leave vindictive low DSR's for us based on their impression of the transaction why can we not leave factual feedback based on their slow or non payment?

We are obliged to prove our case but a buyer has no such restriction.

[*crikey*mate*]

LOLOLOL

whilst some people prefer to just rant and rave and make uninformed demands based on uneducated opinions because they think it makes them look important and bolsters their ego, others actually ask at the source, why there is a difference in policy between the different regions and find out the factual answers.

[thecatspjs]

Yes greencat thats my understanding and consistent with ebay policy and advice. The USA only changed to 2 days in the last few years. Maybe when our shopping cart is fully functional we might see a policy change too.

[digital*ghost]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

LOLOLOL

whilst some people prefer to just rant and rave and make uninformed demands based on uneducated opinions because they think it makes them look important and bolsters their ego, others actually ask at the source, why there is a difference in policy between the different regions and find out the factual answers.

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"The source" has been proven time and again to give conflicting, contradicting and just plain wrong information. 

Besides, what does US billing time have to do with AU payment time frames? Are you saying I can technically have an extra two days to pay my AU sellers because they won't be forcibly billed for the transaction until a day after the official AU date...which happens once a month at the same time, every time, either way? Wouldn't that result in a 3-day minimum? o_O

[thecatspjs]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

LOLOLOL

whilst some people prefer to just rant and rave and make uninformed demands based on uneducated opinions because they think it makes them look important and bolsters their ego, others actually ask at the source, why there is a difference in policy between the different regions and find out the factual answers.

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Really DH ? 

I find this post a bit unfair to "some people" who ever "they" might be, and very confused TBH as you have not provided a coherent rationale or reason that makes any sense at all.  

[springyzone]

As a (mainly) buyer, I can recall the days when sellers could give a negative feedback and unfortunately it was abused. But I think there could be a case made for sellers to be allowed to post a negative once an unpaid item dispute has been decided in their favour. That would not put off the good buyers, which is ebay's main concern.
I am not convinced that would necessarily stop some bad buyers from bidding, but what it would do is subtract from their feedback score.
The Unpaid item dispute strike is going to be the most effective way to block some of those buyers but I can also see an advantage in lowering their feedback score and allowing a negative comment in the case of UID, because bad buyers might one day decide to sell something.
Don't know about anyone else, but if I saw a seller with a lot of negatives, I would steer clear of them. At the moment, sellers can only give a positive or refrain from giving any feedback and bad buyers can set themselves up as sellers without anyone being any the wiser as to their bad history.