Non payers ...whats going on ???

[outback_blends]

In the last 12 months I have had 3 non payers. In the last 2 weeks I have had 5 (maybe 6 if the latest one does not pay soon)

I really cant get my head around it ...

Just venting ..........

[stampingpaws]

If YOU BUY IT YOU PAY FOR IT.

Its a simple solution.

Item sells either AUCTION or BIN. If not paid immediately.

As soon as possible an invoice sent with "IMMEDIATE PAYMENT REQUIRED"

If no payment after 24 hours invoice resent with "IMMEDIATE PAYMENT REQUIRED"

Thats it; no more communication.

At 4 days INR implemented automatically.

After 4 days more Fees refunded, strike to buyer, buyer blocked. No feedback left.

NO exceptions, no replying to communications requesting time to pay, etc.

Been doing it for years, no problems.

[transport-posters]

I've had a few of these happen in the past few weeks also.  Never used to be like this.  I think more and more people are getting confident and buying stuff online, and unfortunately there's a few morons out there who don't take it seriously when they commit to buy something.  They don't realise there are real people on the other end waiting for the payment and wasting time following it up with a message or two.

I would set it to "must pay immediately" as stampingpaws has suggested but sometimes I get multiple purchases and custom requests, so I try to be flexible with my invoicing to give my buyers good deals.  Otherwise I'd enforce the "must pay immediately" feature.

[davewil1964]

I suspect the problem is the cart.

Not including that it doesn't actually work, adding an item to an eBay cart is a commitment to buy. Given no other cart has this as the default, I suspect people think it works like the entire non-eBay universe, where you don't commit to buy when you add an item to your cart, but commit to buy when you explicitly commit to buy.

[springyzone]

I had no idea about that, that putting items in an ebay cart was not reversible.

What fool at ebay instituted that little feature?

As you say, nowhere else in the non ebay universe does that happen.

People should be able to delete items out of their cart as they go.

It is a feature that definitely needs a tweak, for sure.

[no_tv*10]

The cart has a "remove item" option if you change your mind. It doesn't commit you to buy.

[black*poppy]

Agree with no*tv

The cart acts like a watch list, but if you have other items won from auction or fixed price and you go to pay for them, the cart items will come up too so you can pay for the lot in one convenient transaction.  LOL

Here's what it says:

"Fixed-price items in your cart will be available to other buyers until you pay for them. Many items on eBay are available in limited quantities, so an item may sell out before you checkout. However, items that you won either by auction or best offer are reserved for you."