posted on January 7, 2009 03:59:58 AM
I like your statement. There is a period of time between auction ending and payment recieved which can range from a few seconds to never.
posted on January 7, 2009 10:18:30 AM
Now that ebay has virtually forced us to accept Paypal, I think I may change my Buy It Nows to Immediate Payment Required.
I have 4 items that are unpaid that have ended over the last week. No contact, nothing. It used to be that most people used paypal within a few hours. Now it seems that most people wait until you file a NPB complaint and then either pay or ignore it.
Question: Does Powerseller status requirements of $1K a month include only the auctions paid for, or all items that have bids on it?
posted on January 7, 2009 12:11:27 PM
I believe it is items sold - it doesn't look at payments received. My non pays are now up to about 10% of sales, I used to have maybe 1% at the very most. The Buy It Nows should be immediate payment required, but if you accept offers, they don't have to pay right away.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on January 11, 2009 05:56:08 AM
I believe that most of the small-time sellers and buyers have a life outside of eBay. They do not sit at the computer 24/7.
I believe that the auctions they win may have ended at a time when winner has gone to bed, or got stuck in one of these terrible snow storms, is having to clean up flood damage, or could have a work related situation that takes them out of town. Or, like myself, have many animals that need tending-to before I plop down at the computer.
I have never forced 'immediate payment', and don't intend to, and in all my years of selling, I can count on one hand the number of non-payers, and have been scammed only once.
I will send out a friendly reminder about 7 days after end of auction, and again after about the 12th day before I go and file NPB and negative feedback.
Caroline