This is in relation to "immediate payment required" appearing in the listing's payment section, despite the seller never selecting it as an option, as opposed to preventing eBay from forcing a buyer into immediate payment under other circumstances.
The stuff in the spoiler is for potential clarification / troubleshooting purposes, but I don't know how relevant it is or whether it contributed to the problem, just including it in case it helps someone figure out something with their own account / settings.
Anyway, the main point is I had "immediate payment required" appearing on some of my listings, despite it not actually being selected in the payment options (I have bank deposit as a payment option, so it should be impossible), but I was able to remove it by editing the listing, actually ticking the box to require immediate payment (because at this point, the setting wasn't selected at all), submitting the listing, then revising it again, unticking immediate payment, re-ticking the appropriate boxes for bank deposit and submitting the listing again. (Note: ticking then immediately unticking immediate payment, then submitting did not work for me, sadly, it required two separate edits).
I should be able to bulk edit the ones I find... but finding them is the tedious part since the option is not actually officially selected anywhere in my settings - hopefully if this is affecting other's listings, this method works for you as well.
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I do not use business policies in my store - all my postage stuff is done manually, but I'm dreading having to bulk edit all the different listings in a few weeks so I thought I'd look at setting some up, and opted in earlier this evening. However, it wouldn't let me edit any of the policies and when I checked some of my listings to make sure they looked ok, I noticed "immediate payment required" was now showing on some - I do not know if this was appearing before or after opting into business policies, however I have never used immediate payment before at all, so there shouldn't have been any policies with it implemented (there was 10+ pages of individual policies though, going back to when I very first started selling and could charge less than $2 for a large letter ).
I decided to opt back out, there was no change to the listings saying immediate payment required. I've only checked a relatively small amount so far, but it appears to be applied randomly on both old and new listings, which have various postage costs applied (which would have meant separate policies were created for them when I opted in to business policies).
I just wish I knew if it was there before I opted into business policies. If I get motivated enough, I'll opt back in to and take a look at which listings are assigned to certain payment policies, as there were multiple listed there when I went to the dashboard. I deleted all policies that weren't being used on any listings, but if the listings that are being affected are all assigned to a specific payment policy, I might be able to solve the issue by deleting that one and assigning the listings to one that doesn't have it. (From the listings I have checked - which wasn't all that many - I found half a dozen that had immediate payment on them, so it seems a fairly small percentage at this point in time).
It's still weird, though - you can't have immediate payment required on a listing that accepts bank deposit (if you actually tick it, all payment options other than PayPal disappear), and these listings still have BD as a payment option.
@countess, contacting CS isn't on my agenda, they can't do anything practical or useful 
@digital*ghost wrote:I just wish I knew if it was there before I opted into business policies. If I get motivated enough, I'll opt back in to and take a look at which listings are assigned to certain payment policies, as there were multiple listed there when I went to the dashboard. I deleted all policies that weren't being used on any listings, but if the listings that are being affected are all assigned to a specific payment policy, I might be able to solve the issue by deleting that one and assigning the listings to one that doesn't have it. (From the listings I have checked - which wasn't all that many - I found half a dozen that had immediate payment on them, so it seems a fairly small percentage at this point in time).
It's still weird, though - you can't have immediate payment required on a listing that accepts bank deposit (if you actually tick it, all payment options other than PayPal disappear), and these listings still have BD as a payment option.
@countess, contacting CS isn't on my agenda, they can't do anything practical or useful
If it's on listings that have DD as an option that means it's ebay forcing you to have it, in which case it's a bit surprising it's not on all your listings. Under the old system you could only require immediate payment if pp was the only option.
When you first opt into business policies they'll look a bit like a dog's breakfast and you have to clean them up a bit by transferring some listings to other policies. Occasionally they add a few extras that you also have to clean up but it doesn't happen very often. I couldn't go back to not using business policies because they save a lot of work and keep everything neat and tidy.
At the moment I can't think of a simple way to find which listings have immediate payment on them and which don't, but if I do I'll let you know. It sounds like ebay has opted you into IP on some but not on others, in which case probably the only way to take it off is to redo those listings using sell similar from a listing that doesn't have it - unless it's your newest listings they've got it on. I realise you may not want to redo listings if you lose your selling history.
I'd like to remove it just for consistency across my listings, and because purchasing multiple items with a single payment is still not that intuitive for some buyers, but right now it feels a bit more trouble than it's worth (I'd do immediate payment in a heartbeat if my issues with it were resolved, as that's how all my other channels work).
I opted back out of the policies because it wouldn't let me do anything with them except delete, unfortunately - mine's an old-ish account and a lot of the newer (by comparison) features like this are not compatible, though (I also can't use all of the promotions in the promotions manager, which eBay has confirmed is an issue with older accounts 
).
@digital*ghost wrote:[...]
@countess, contacting CS isn't on my agenda, they can't do anything practical or useful
Agenda
Item 1: Trawl through listings (under business policies) and examine congruence of listings and payment options.
Item 2: Take a break with some gen mai cha tea.
Item 3: Keep trawling.
Item 4: Pull hair out.
Item 5: Locate hair glue and stick hair back together.
Item 6: Keep trawling.
Item 7: Find remote area with soaring cliffs and scream while engaging in Fu Jow Pai with robot designed to mimic eBay CS reps' moves.
Item 8: Destroy robot. Feel brief sense of satisfaction.
@countessalmirena wrote:
@digital*ghost wrote:[...]
@countess, contacting CS isn't on my agenda, they can't do anything practical or useful
Agenda
Item 1: Trawl through listings (under business policies) and examine congruence of listings and payment options.
Item 2: Take a break with some gen mai cha tea.
Item 3: Keep trawling.
Item 4: Pull hair out.
Item 5: Locate hair glue and stick hair back together.
Item 6: Keep trawling.
Item 7: Find remote area with soaring cliffs and scream while engaging in Fu Jow Pai with robot designed to mimic eBay CS reps' moves.
Item 8: Destroy robot. Feel brief sense of satisfaction.
Nah, I looked at a bunch of listings the other night, edited a few of them, got annoyed when I saw it didn't do no good, and haven't done anything about it since.
My work days are more like:
Wake up, make coffee, turn on computer
Answer messages, send messages, drink coffee
Pick orders, create postage labels, address packages
Pack orders, answer messages (as required), create custom-requested listings, pick other orders as / when they come in
Make / drink coffee, peruse the forum if time allows, finalise shipments, leave for post office
Post packages, go sit down, eat something usually
Eventually head home, make coffee, turn on computer, answer messages, create custom listings if required, chuck something in the oven for dinner (I am a big fan of roast veges at the moment, zero prep time, and decent enough of a meal ).
If I have new stock to photograph and list, that'll be done, otherwise I'll open up the streaming service currently subscribed to (I cycle through several, 1-2 months at a time), and get to work on the hand made stuff that's been ordered
Get to bed between 2-3am
Weekends - stare into the void, regret life choices including lazy vege diet (I have anemia, so hairpulling activities need to be kept to a minimum ) and start Daydreaming
