why do people offer to buy it now if....
donrus
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why do people offer to buy it now. then when the auction ends they sit on payment? i know there are alot of things that bug me,but come on..had people dogging me on these cards i had for sale.but when it comes time to pay..lets drag it out. wtf... on everything else i have listed i put please pay within 3 days auction end. i know if i take the same amount of time shipping said items i would get a neg.. is there a limit where i can just say im relisting the items? please advise..don
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It's the only way to fly.
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
i got a guy ive sent a invoice to 2 times a day for week now, gets old
collecting 1977 topps baseball in psa 9 and psa 10
+121.5 for that
Feel special you got the sale! Feel special you might get paid! When all else fails beat your head on your desk and post it in our forum
OR wait till the payment on thurs after two weeks and get the email on tues wheres my card
Congrats on being a ebay seller!!!!!!!!
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Oh.
IPR is not available on auctions with BINs.
It is only avaliable on pure BINs.
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I stopped doing auctions on EBAY. I only do BINs.
I got tired of paying EBAY for the privilege of giving stuff away.
<< <i>Why not hold on to your money for as long as possible. I guess I just don't see what's wrong with taking advantage of the rules. Hell, if I can win an auction and not have to pay for 7 days, then I'm going to keep my money for as long as possible. It's just like financing a major purchase at zero percent interest for one year. I'd pay on day 365 and use their money for free the entire year. >>
So you can make about .0027 cents interest holding 7 days on a $50 purchase. Makes perfect financial sense.
<< <i>Think about thousands and thousands of transactions per day >>
I don't know anyone who hits thousands of ebay BIN's per day.
<< <i>Think big...think across the entire buying and selling spectrum...the economy doesn't live and die on your single transaction >>
You said you'd do it personally and would benefit personally. My comments were based on that.
Like mentioned if you don't use Immediate payment required be prepared to wait.
One reason could be the buyer is waiting for payday. Or another scenario could be he has items too and is awaiting
payment for them. I usually always pay with 72 hrs. when I use BIN.
Steve
Don, Im not questioning your practices, you said you ship quickly. Just sharing my pet peeve with that topic.
within 7 days because he has a life outside of ebay?
Steve
<< <i>"...it had a bin but also a min bid...."
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Oh.
IPR is not available on auctions with BINs.
It is only avaliable on pure BINs.
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I stopped doing auctions on EBAY. I only do BINs.
I got tired of paying EBAY for the privilege of giving stuff away. >>
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Storm,
Just curious ... Is that a recent change to the writeup below?
PoppaJ
"Requiring Immediate Payment
If you've set a Buy It Now price for your item, you can require the buyer to pay you immediately using PayPal. You might use this feature if you're selling a time-sensitive item (for example, concert tickets). You must meet certain seller and shipping requirements and the listing must include any related costs, so your buyer knows exactly how much to pay.
How it works
A buyer who clicks the Buy It Now button in your listing is directed to pay immediately for the item using PayPal.
Until the buyer completes payment, the item remains available to other buyers to purchase for the duration of the listing. The first buyer to complete their PayPal payment officially wins your item.
Once a buyer completes payment, the listing ends and you are directed to ship the item.
You can use the immediate payment feature with any selling format (Auction-Style, Fixed Price, or Store Inventory), as long as your item has a Buy It Now price.
If you have an auction-like listing, both the Buy It Now button and the immediate payment requirement disappear once a bid is placed (or once a bid meets your reserve price). In that case, the listing becomes a regular auction-style listing, with the item going to the highest bidder.
Listings with the immediate payment feature must offer PayPal as the only payment method. This includes auction-style listings that end with a high bidder.
If the listing reaches its ending time before any buyer has completed payment, then no one wins the item and you can relist it."
I can honestly say that it can take me up to a week or 10 days to pay for some of my auctions. One thing I know for sure is that I will always eventually pay. They're reason why I do this. First off is that sometimes I may be awaiting payment from someone else. Second is that if I pay for multiple things at one time it shows up on my bank statement as one PayPal total. This keeps my wife off my back which doesn't make much sense. She would rather have me buy one $500 item then 3 $100 items. This doesn't make much sense but it just appears that I am buying less.
<< <i>I just figured out why I've been a member since September 2001 and have only 101 posts >>
Think big...think across the entire CU thread spectrum...the forum doesn't live and die on your single post
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<< <i>I just figured out why I've been a member since September 2001 and have only 101 posts >>
Think big...think across the entire CU thread spectrum...the forum doesn't live and die on your single post >>
Just curious ... Is that a recent change to the writeup below?
PoppaJ
"You can use the immediate payment feature with any selling format (Auction-Style, Fixed Price, or Store Inventory), as long as your item has a Buy It Now price.
If you have an auction-like listing, both the Buy It Now button and the immediate payment requirement disappear once a bid is placed (or once a bid meets your reserve price)."
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No. It's not new.
Just an example of my failure to adequately explain the process.
The fact that collectible cats don't yet qualify for the 50.01% BIN
vanishing - and the fact that less than 2% of collectible auctions
use reserves - makes IPR useless in most card/memorabilia
auction listings. (The 50.01% rule is being expanded and should
be in all collectibles shortly, according to EBAY.)
Some bidders are very courteous and will refrain from bidding
early on a combo auction/BIN listing. Most just jump in at the
opening bid when they find the listing, and the seller's BIN and
IPR are killed.
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Under any scheme, IPR does not, obviously, work with auctions.
In 2009, JD says they wish to link CCs and PP to bidder activity;
and, do auto-billing when an auction ends. This will help cut-down
drastically on NPBs, and allow more employees to be made redundant.
don