@southpaw1883 wrote:
It’s like allowing buyers 4 days to make payment. What business in the world allows this?
Millions of businesses allow this, lol - some allow even more (30 day payment terms after goods have been received is extremely common). Do you pay for your electricity in advance? When you get a bill, what's the due date? Longer than 4 days, I imagine.
If you went to Starbucks and said "I'll pay for a coffee in 4 days", they'd probably look at you a bit weird but they wouldn't give you a coffee there and then, just like an eBay seller doesn't send out goods until payment is made (and even then, there's no guarantee the buyer has paid for their eBay purchase in full, what with Afterpay being a thing now).
Fees on postage sucks, but unless there's something that can be done about it and - more importantly - someone actually does that thing instead of just complaining, sellers have a choice of either working with them or not using eBay to sell. I'm going to go ahead and assume there isn't anything that can be done about it, otherwise someone would have found it by now, so when complaints are raised here about it, you're only going to get one of two responses - one is the "totally agree, ebay sucks" response, which feels validating, I'm sure, the other is "well, it is what it is, best thing to do is make sure your costs are covered" etc, if you're looking for an ego stroke, I suppose the first kind of response is preferable, if you're looking for a productive way to make selling on eBay more tolerable and successful, however, that "ebay sucks" kind of response is completely worthless.
