Some body please square me away here!

[darealstunna]

Why would you negotiate a best offer price and not pay once agreed upon and accepted?

Long story short, sold a baseball card to an agreed amount via messages and best offer function on EBay. This was 10 days ago and buyer still has not paid.

I would've at least put in the notes in our correspondence I don't plan on paying immediately or within the next 10 days if it was going to be an issue.

Just venting a bit and curious if anybody has similar stories.

I have invoiced the buyer once since the sale, 2 days ago.

[Qwasian]

oddly enough I had the exact same thing happen, but check this out, the guy buys a card, doesn't pay for a week, comes back & says i'm gonna pay soon can I put in an offer on this other card, so I was like? hmmmm not too excited about that scenario but I agreed, he then has 2 cards on hold basically past 2 weeks, waits almost a month, messaged me yesterday and wanted to put another card on his bill then pay, I just filed non payment cases on the transactions, probably just people playing on ebay.

[jlzinck]

Nature of the beast. Use the options Ebay gives you for the fees you pay.
Use the NPB Wizard. I use 4 days. If 96 hours after the end of the auction I have not received payment the NPB kicks in. The buyer is notified and they have 4 more days to pay.

I believe I have had 1 person not pay over the last 6 months and the wizard has kicked in 8 or 9 times.

People are stupid and lazy they need an Ebay kick in the arse once in a while

[mikecamp99]

Nature of the beast. Use the options Ebay gives you for the fees you pay.
Use the NPB Wizard. I use 4 days. If 96 hours after the end of the auction I have not received payment the NPB kicks in. The buyer is notified and they have 4 more days to pay.

I believe I have had 1 person not pay over the last 6 months and the wizard has kicked in 8 or 9 times.

People are stupid and lazy they need an Ebay kick in the arse once in a while

Yup same here, I had a guy win an auction the other day. I waited several days before opening a NPB cases, guy paid the very next day. However, I have also had two other auctions the last several weeks, one of which was a Best Offer accepted, where I opened cases and buyers still didn't pay. Ebay can be a very frustrating place :(

[89transam]

welcome to ebay.
unfortunately, this scenario happens to be a way of life for some potential buyers.