item sold but no payment

[koobar]

I found some of the buyers they bought your item and never pay. I'm so confused with it. I sent invoice to the buyer when I got the order in my sold list, it counted my selling limit. Can I ship the item even I haven't got paid yet?

[glacier922]

Never ship item until u got ur money. Just turn on unpaid item assistant, it'll open the case for u and they can't leave a negative. It'll automatically close it for u and I get ur fvf back

[rsot]

No do not ship - open an unpaid buyer claim - loser buyers

[muzzie]

Do not ship, send PM, if not paid in a couple of days - open case, and ban buyer. If your item is under of risk of getting abused, try placing strict buyer restrictions on this item.

[wakitiwa]

Add immediate payment in the listing options when listing on buy it now

[empirestate]

If it is in BIN style, you can check the box immediate payment required. Never ship an item without getting your money first! It's like giving your items for free....

[dallis]

I find new accounts get a lot of unpaid items, sometimes as high as 15%, older accounts less so, maybe 2%.

Mine are small ticket items, and they're all the same, so it doesn't really kill me like it did when they were one of a kind.

It's just a fact of life on EB where they let people purchase without paying immediately. :(

[koobar]

The funny thing is on ebay.com there is option for requiring immediate payment, but on ebay.ca there is not.

[Pnw507]

I always call the buyer if they do not pay within 3-4 days. I require a phone number when checking out. I usually get a "but I didn't buy it I only added it in my cart" or "nope I never bought it, I just looked at it." Usually this is from members with 0 feedback.

[GreenBean]

Originally Posted by koobar

I found some of the buyers they bought your item and never pay. I'm so confused with it. I sent invoice to the buyer when I got the order in my sold list, it counted my selling limit. Can I ship the item even I haven't got paid yet?

Why? Why risk shipping and losing more money.

Change your buying requirements quickly.

How are you asking to be paid at the moment>

[muzzie]

Wait 2 days, then open unpaid item case. If he does not respond in 7 days - cancel the transaction, it will not cause any changes to your account standing.

[dallis]

That's true, but you still lose one off your listing limit, on a 5/500 account that stinks.

Still nothing you can do about it. Just the way the game is played.

[wakitiwa]

By the way, is there any problem harassing customers who haven't paid within 48 hours? I mean, sending them direct messages like "it's been two days since the auction ended, do you still need more time to pay or just want to cancel up the transaction?" I just sold my like my third item on ebay to a non payer... it's been like 3 days already, no major money item, just scraps like for 15 bucks but yeah, I wanna start getting to use that selling account. Still don't know why on earth ebay in 2015 lets non payers get away with so much time, that is complete bs

[Lost in the Supermarket]

Originally Posted by dallis

That's true, but you still lose one off your listing limit, on a 5/500 account that stinks.

Still nothing you can do about it. Just the way the game is played.

If you are worried about losing a listing off a 5/500 limited account, your eye is not on the ball.

The way I do it is fine for me. For you? You decide.

On a new account I am not worried so much about making money as I am about getting limits raised.

Whatever I can scrape up to sell with very low shipping cost is what I list. On my recent account I sold a book for $2.50 and free shipping. Shipping was about $2.40. But.....I got a sale and it only cost me the 25 cents form buying the book at the library plus what net loss I had from ebay adn pp fees.

I do that a few times on my first sales in about the 4th month of account life and usually get a limit bump. Then I list a few more losing items along with a few profitable items. Going for a bit of profit as well as another bump within a month or two. When my limits hit at least 60 I start going full-bore at the money makers.

Is your goal to make money on every sale or get a bunch of accounts going that all have lots of sales and profits?

I call my types of accounts the "kids, adolescents, and adults". I don't expect too much out of the first two, just for them to grow and stay out of trouble.

Selling junk at a loss is also a way to clear out some closets and garage space. Net same-same as giving it to charity.