best offer accepted but buyer does not pay

kattyrie
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Something that seems to be happening more (at least it is happening to me anyway...). A potential buyer makes an offer on an item, I then accept the offer & issue the invoice for payment. Then...nothing, i.e. they do not pay. Nada, Zilch. In the meantime, my item is now automatically taken off ebay 'for sale', while all the item's 'watchers' are notified the item has been sold. Obviously, this means I'm losing out on a potential sale to some other genuine buyer. Is there a procedure for reporting these very annoying people who don't pay up when an offer is accepted?

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3) I can go to site preferences and I can set my 'best offer accepted' option to be best offer accepted but 'pay

 

 

 


Unless things have changed, immediate payment only applies to Buy It Now transactions (normal buy it now listings, and the buy it now option that can be used on auction listings). AFAIK it's not possible to implement immediate payment when the best offer is used to make the sale (it's definitely not possible when the seller is accepting a buyer's offer, and a buyer accepting a counter-offer I believe is done through the messaging system, rather than the cart / checkout system). 

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