How long till I place an unpaid item claim?

[Alvarez09]

Just curious how long you wait or ow long you wait to message someone that won an auction. Going on 24 hours now on an auction and I am getting mildly irritated.

[js0000001]

I wait about a week

[AwesomeBrian]

You can't do it until 96 hours have passed

[glen87]

Just curious how long you wait or ow long you wait to message someone that won an auction. Going on 24 hours now on an auction and I am getting mildly irritated.

buyer has 48 hours to pay regardless of your posted payment terms.

after 48 hours you can open a claim.

[Alvarez09]

You can't do it until 96 hours have passed


Yikes! THat seems like a LONG time to give someone to pay for something.

I know when I win an auction I always pay within an hour at most.

[glen87]

You can't do it until 96 hours have passed

wrong.

https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/case-resolution.html

You can open as soon as two days after the listing ends, or immediately if the buyer is no longer registered on eBay.

[glen87]

Yikes! THat seems like a LONG time to give someone to pay for something.

I know when I win an auction I always pay within an hour at most.

it is too long, 48 hours is when you can open

[auctionjmm]

Just curious how long you wait or ow long you wait to message someone that won an auction. Going on 24 hours now on an auction and I am getting mildly irritated.

Irritated after 24 hours? You have to give them AT LEAST 2 days (per eBay) and then they have an additional 4 days to pay, so 6 days total is the absolute earliest that you can close out. I usually give a 6 day cushion plus the 4 days so 10 days is when I get "irritated".

[Alvarez09]

buyer has 48 hours to pay regardless of your posted payment terms.

after 48 hours you can open a claim.

What I love about the internet, two different answers immediately. I think you are right though.

SHould I give longer?

[glen87]

What I love about the internet, two different answers immediately. I think you are right though.

SHould I give longer?

you THINK i am right???


did you not see i linked you directly to the ebay page on unpaid items????

[Alvarez09]

you THINK i am right???


did you not see i linked you directly to the ebay page on unpaid items????

I didn’t until after I posted. Chill out.

[epatmythes]

You can file the claim 48 hours after auction close

You can close the claim 96 hours after it's been opened

Yes, the buyer has 6 days to pay without recourse

Never message a buyer asking for payment. Respond if contacted, but never initiate contact.

[Cavaliercards]

We give them a week

[TreMoney]

You can file the claim 48 hours after auction close

You can close the claim 96 hours after it's been opened

Yes, the buyer has 6 days to pay without recourse

Never message a buyer asking for payment. Respond if contacted, but never initiate contact.
This dudes answer
Going after them just leads to lies or being ignored.

[jdhaugh11]

You can file the claim 48 hours after auction close

You can close the claim 96 hours after it's been opened

Yes, the buyer has 6 days to pay without recourse

Never message a buyer asking for payment. Respond if contacted, but never initiate contact.

Why do you say never ask for payment?

I always send a nice message after 3 or 4 days saying:
Could you please make payment as soon as possible?
If you are having issue please let me know.

I am willing to wait as long as the person responds.
The people that don't, I go to their house with a bat!
Just kidding on that last part of course.

[Lonewolf]

24 hours, oh noes!

[NickStam]

i get irritated after about 24 minutes especially if they bid right as it was ending.

[Cavaliercards]

Just curious how long you wait or ow long you wait to message someone that won an auction. Going on 24 hours now on an auction and I am getting mildly irritated.

Relax, 24 hours is not that long.

[auctionjmm]

i get irritated after about 24 minutes especially if they bid right as it was ending.

I guess I'm used to the business side of retail where 30-180 day repayment terms are normal. The company I work for still has March invoices that haven't been paid by our clients. Waiting for money is normal in my world so it doesn't bother me at all.

[glen87]

Why do you say never ask for payment?

I always send a nice message after 3 or 4 days saying:
Could you please make payment as soon as possible?
If you are having issue please let me know.

I am willing to wait as long as the person responds.
The people that don't, I go to their house with a bat!
Just kidding on that last part of course.

opening up any type of dialogue is just opening a can of worms. just open the case and let it play out.

you will get responses like:

"yea, gonna pay tonight" - tonight never comes

"i really really truly want this card but just had a car wreck and someone in family died this morning, but i was getting ready to make payment and we lost all electricity so could not get on the computer, and my phone died so i could not use that. give me another day or two and i promise i will pay you"

[jdhaugh11]

opening up any type of dialogue is just opening a can of worms. just open the case and let it play out.

you will get responses like:

"yea, gonna pay tonight" - tonight never comes

"i really really truly want this card but just had a car wreck and someone in family died this morning, but i was getting ready to make payment and we lost all electricity so could not get on the computer, and my phone died so i could not use that. give me another day or two and i promise i will pay you"Yeah I have had my fair share of those.
I have also had a few that are solid and had real reasons or just forgot.
I have 1 guy that has bought 30+ things from me and generally takes a week to pay.
If it goes over a week, I will open the claim and then he pays shortly after.
It's evidently a game we play! [emoji38]

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[JeffG1954]

What is the time frame you put in your item description as to when you expect payment. Mine is stated at 3 days, plus the 4 you have to wait after starting the NPB process gives them a full week to pay.

If you do not state a time frame, that's on you.

[WYTMKE]

ebay does it for you

[ucLAkers]

Set your UID (Automatic Unpaid Item Assistant/Dispute)and chill....no biggie and dont email/message buyers. No need, they already get 50 emails for 1 item as it is...very annoying.

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[epatmythes]

Why do you say never ask for payment?

I always send a nice message after 3 or 4 days saying:
Could you please make payment as soon as possible?
If you are having issue please let me know.

I am willing to wait as long as the person responds.
The people that don't, I go to their house with a bat!
Just kidding on that last part of course.

Why open yourself up to unnecessary problems?

It's 2020. eBay has been around for 25 years. The majority of people have been making some form of online payment on that platform for the past 18 years or so. While there are plenty of "excuses", let's be honest, there is rarely an honest, good excuse for not paying within 48 hours.

"I forgot"... 9 times out of 10... is the nice way of saying, "I'm lazy"! Sure, there are some people that they too are waiting on payments to have the funds to pay with... others, well, hey, money is tight sometimes. Good intentioned buyers, a lot of the time in such cases, will reach out to you first to let you know that... which is fine, and I find that generally acceptable.

Simply put, "asking" for payment, is really nothing more than running the "risk" of running into a jerk, a hot head, a person having a bad day/week/month and now you're their punching bag.

Buyers run the show. You can get a negative. You can get refusal to pay. You can get a decision to pay at the very last minute... with full intention to cancel, return the card, or worse yet, intentionally damaging the card and then returning it. Or some combination of all of the above!

If someone intends to pay, they'll pay. If someone really intends to pay, they generally will once the NPB case is open. Initiating contact and asking someone to pay for something they committed to buying is both A) inherently unnecessary, and B) just an opening to deal with somebody maybe not so nice... Why risk it??

[jdhaugh11]

Why open yourself up to unnecessary problems?



It's 2020. eBay has been around for 25 years. The majority of people have been making some form of online payment on that platform for the past 18 years or so. While there are plenty of "excuses", let's be honest, there is rarely an honest, good excuse for not paying within 48 hours.



"I forgot"... 9 times out of 10... is the nice way of saying, "I'm lazy"! Sure, there are some people that they too are waiting on payments to have the funds to pay with... others, well, hey, money is tight sometimes. Good intentioned buyers, a lot of the time in such cases, will reach out to you first to let you know that... which is fine, and I find that generally acceptable.



Simply put, "asking" for payment, is really nothing more than running the "risk" of running into a jerk, a hot head, a person having a bad day/week/month and now you're their punching bag.



Buyers run the show. You can get a negative. You can get refusal to pay. You can get a decision to pay at the very last minute... with full intention to cancel, return the card, or worse yet, intentionally damaging the card and then returning it. Or some combination of all of the above!



If someone intends to pay, they'll pay. If someone really intends to pay, they generally will once the NPB case is open. Initiating contact and asking someone to pay for something they committed to buying is both A) inherently unnecessary, and B) just an opening to deal with somebody maybe not so nice... Why risk it??Good points. My non-payers are generally for high dollar cards.
The last one really upset me, because I sold the card 3 times, with each time going for less. $700, then $600 and finally paid a week after the auction at only $500!

In a dream world, I wish you could charge the deadbeat non-payer the difference lost!

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[ALBASKETBALL]

Why open yourself up to unnecessary problems?

It's 2020. eBay has been around for 25 years. The majority of people have been making some form of online payment on that platform for the past 18 years or so. While there are plenty of "excuses", let's be honest, there is rarely an honest, good excuse for not paying within 48 hours.

"I forgot"... 9 times out of 10... is the nice way of saying, "I'm lazy"! Sure, there are some people that they too are waiting on payments to have the funds to pay with... others, well, hey, money is tight sometimes. Good intentioned buyers, a lot of the time in such cases, will reach out to you first to let you know that... which is fine, and I find that generally acceptable.

Simply put, "asking" for payment, is really nothing more than running the "risk" of running into a jerk, a hot head, a person having a bad day/week/month and now you're their punching bag.

Buyers run the show. You can get a negative. You can get refusal to pay. You can get a decision to pay at the very last minute... with full intention to cancel, return the card, or worse yet, intentionally damaging the card and then returning it. Or some combination of all of the above!

If someone intends to pay, they'll pay. If someone really intends to pay, they generally will once the NPB case is open. Initiating contact and asking someone to pay for something they committed to buying is both A) inherently unnecessary, and B) just an opening to deal with somebody maybe not so nice... Why risk it??

I live by the old additive - It doesn't hurt to ask. Never had any issues. Never had any blowups. I don't push the seller to pay. I simply ask if you attend on paying. I much rather reach out and ask for clarification than file a claim for a non-payment.

Not sure what "risk" there is in asking. That's just my experiences.

[epatmythes]

I live by the old additive - It doesn't hurt to ask. Never had any issues. Never had any blowups. I don't push the seller to pay. I simply ask if you attend on paying. I much rather reach out and ask for clarification than file a claim for a non-payment.

Not sure what "risk" there is in asking. That's just my experiences.

I literally just gave you a thorough explanation of the "risk"... that you even quoted in your reply :doh:

Congrats on your experiences, but friend... it's not that you've never had any issues... it's simply, that you've never had any issues, yet!

[Dalston]

Good points. My non-payers are generally for high dollar cards.
The last one really upset me, because I sold the card 3 times, with each time going for less. $700, then $600 and finally paid a week after the auction at only $500!

In a dream world, I wish you could charge the deadbeat non-payer the difference lost!

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If you want a zen way to look at it, without the detailed bidding history to hand its entirely possible that the card ended up selling for more than it would have done before. That's happened to me as a buyer. I get outbid on a card I bid a fraction more than $40 on, with the next highest bid at $20.

When the card gets relisted, there's a new bidder and I end up paying $30something for it.

(I know this might well not be the case for the auction you mentioned. Just pointing out sometimes sellers get more money than they would have gotten otherwise even if the selling price is lower).

[ucLAkers]

Why open yourself up to unnecessary problems?

It's 2020. eBay has been around for 25 years. The majority of people have been making some form of online payment on that platform for the past 18 years or so. While there are plenty of "excuses", let's be honest, there is rarely an honest, good excuse for not paying within 48 hours.

"I forgot"... 9 times out of 10... is the nice way of saying, "I'm lazy"! Sure, there are some people that they too are waiting on payments to have the funds to pay with... others, well, hey, money is tight sometimes. Good intentioned buyers, a lot of the time in such cases, will reach out to you first to let you know that... which is fine, and I find that generally acceptable.

Simply put, "asking" for payment, is really nothing more than running the "risk" of running into a jerk, a hot head, a person having a bad day/week/month and now you're their punching bag.

Buyers run the show. You can get a negative. You can get refusal to pay. You can get a decision to pay at the very last minute... with full intention to cancel, return the card, or worse yet, intentionally damaging the card and then returning it. Or some combination of all of the above!

If someone intends to pay, they'll pay. If someone really intends to pay, they generally will once the NPB case is open. Initiating contact and asking someone to pay for something they committed to buying is both A) inherently unnecessary, and B) just an opening to deal with somebody maybe not so nice... Why risk it??

Spot on!

Does anyone still use eChecks remember those? I remember blocking those years ago after they started falling thru and were deemed “bounced checks” after a 12 day wait. Geez that sucked!

[jdhaugh11]

If you want a zen way to look at it, without the detailed bidding history to hand its entirely possible that the card ended up selling for more than it would have done before. That's happened to me as a buyer. I get outbid on a card I bid a fraction more than $40 on, with the next highest bid at $20.



When the card gets relisted, there's a new bidder and I end up paying $30something for it.



(I know this might well not be the case for the auction you mentioned. Just pointing out sometimes sellers get more money than they would have gotten otherwise even if the selling price is lower).That does happen on occasion and I feel complete redemption.
I have had several auctions recently that don't get an initial bid, say $20, but then end up going for $30+ or so the next time I relist.
I guess it is a different audience each week you list it. There is just so much out there that it is hard for bidders to follow it all!

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