Possible to disable 'Please Pay' automated emails?

[kustomizer99]

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the automated 'Please pay for your item' emails that eBay sends out to buyers -- about one or two days after an auction ends?!

I recently had a buyer complain to me about 'my' impatience after they received several of these, and there really is no need for eBay to do this. All it does is annoy the buyer and most likely contributes to low star ratings in many cases, as I'm sure it did in this example.

[*sparklz*]

 moorna12 so I'd see you as harrassing me going by what you say above, and if you launched a dispute aganst me after only 4 days you'd p1ss me so badly I'd be contacting Ebay over your harrassment.

ebay have put this options for sellers in place so you could complain all you like and they would do NOTHING

If you intend to purchase more from a seller that is days apart before ending then you need to have disputes open against you for being so rude to make the seller wait for you money.

It is only courteous to let the seller know of your intentions and to avoid non payer disputes from being open on you.

Any seller is ok with waiting IF you can make the effort to communicate!!!!!

[davewil1964]

I certainly wouldn't rely on your thinking Moorna. It is common courtesy to advise a seller you are bidding on several of their items and ask if it is okay with them if you pay for the ones you win after they've all finished.

What happens if just before the last one is due to finish (5-6 days after you won the first one) the seller lists something else you want? On a 10 day auction? Just bid on it without advising the seller? Making payment more than a fortnight after your first win and not initiating communication/explanation with the seller at any time is unlikely to enamour you to the seller and is very likely to see you with a few INRs, some of which will probably have closed in that time.

And I'm pretty sure neither Fair Trading nor the ACCC would side with you.

[digital*ghost]

I don't bother contacting the seller for any reason until I've finished my buying session with them, no matter how many days in between items coming up, so I'd see you as harrassing me going by what you say above, and if you launched a dispute aganst me after only 4 days you'd p1ss me so badly I'd be contacting Ebay over your harrassment.

If a seller has a time-frame in their listings letting every potential buyer know when payment is due, and their processes uphold those time-frames, you'd have absolutely no basis whatsoever to be annoyed or feel harassed. If it's four days and you don't pay or even bother to make contact in four days, what do you expect a selller to do, just sit there, waiting, not knowing anything....indefinitely? That's what it looks like from the seller's POV.

You might know what your intentions are, and all the reasons why you're not paying yet. but the seller doesn't. Since you're the only one that can keep them informed, blaming the seller for acting on far less information than you have and were not prepared to share is just plain rude. (Sorry if that offends, I would usually try to be a little more tactful, but there's just no two ways about it). 

BTW, when I (and many other sellers) open UPI disputes, it isn't to threaten the buyer, it isn't to get them to pay, in fact it has absolutely nothing to do with the buyer at all. I just want the fees I was charged for the "sale" back. So don't judge sellers, or their intentions, if you aren't even prepared to communicate with them and share yours...or actually find out how reasonable or understanding they're prepared to be. 😐

[willynfantasticals]

Honestly, how long does it take to send the seller a message? 

"Hi, I've just purchased/won at auction from you.  I am also bidding on something else that ends in X days.  Is it ok if I pay for all purchases at the same time?"

I've never had a seller say no to this request.

[purple.cow]

I certainly wouldn't rely on your thinking Moorna. It is common courtesy to advise a seller you are bidding on several of their items and ask if it is okay with them if you pay for the ones you win after they've all finished.

What happens if just before the last one is due to finish (5-6 days after you won the first one) the seller lists something else you want? On a 10 day auction? Just bid on it without advising the seller? Making payment more than a fortnight after your first win and not initiating communication/explanation with the seller at any time is unlikely to enamour you to the seller and is very likely to see you with a few INRs, some of which will probably have closed in that time.

And I'm pretty sure neither Fair Trading nor the ACCC would side with you.

My answer:

I always clear every lot of purchases at the end of each week by paying for them in one hit before starting out afresh the next week for my own account keeping reasons.

If anyone is that desperate that they can't wait that long I feel very sad for their lack of financial management and business acumen.

I've never experienced any problem with any seller I buy from concerning the way I work so I see no reason to change things, but there again I do not to buy from Aussie sellers anyway. Waaay too expensive.

No matter what any seller states on their ads regarding terms of sale etc. it doesn't lock it into law so the Fair Trading don't give a toss.

[purple.cow]

Honestly, how long does it take to send the seller a message? 

"Hi, I've just purchased/won at auction from you.  I am also bidding on something else that ends in X days.  Is it ok if I pay for all purchases at the same time?"

I've never had a seller say no to this request.

Too long when you have to keep doing it and I see no reason for the need when I'm buying.

[purple.cow]

ebay have put this options for sellers in place so you could complain all you like and they would do NOTHING

I know, but they remove seller non-payment black marks so fast when you tell them the seller is just an impatient idiot lol.

[*sparklz*]

I've never experienced any problem with any seller I buy from concerning the way I work so I see no reason to change things, but there again I do not to buy from Aussie sellers anyway. Waaay too expensive.

While the seller would be seething at their end they are not going tell you how annoyed they are

Ok so lets assume a seller sent you a message after you paid with no previous contact from you to say "I think you are wrong for making me wait and not advising you will pay on **/** due to wanting to combine postage with other purchases."

By the sound of the way you have posted here you would leave a neg for that message so of course a seller is not going to let you know how they really feel about your lack of comms with them.

[willynfantasticals]

Honestly, how long does it take to send the seller a message? 

"Hi, I've just purchased/won an auction from you.  I am also bidding on something else that ends in X days.  Is it ok if I pay for all purchases at the same time?"

I've never had a seller say no to this request.

Too long when you have to keep doing it and I see no reason for the need when I'm buying.

Hmmm ...... yet you seem to have plenty of time to post on these boards.  Interesting.

[willynfantasticals]

Oops.  Messed up the quote thingie.  LOL.