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Back in the early days of ebay, I sold stuff all the time for mailed cash or MOs. I wanna say like 10-15 percent of people never paid though. I guess I would consider it now only if the item was hard to sell and worth more than a little bit of money. I get people asking to pay cash but they usually want to pick up in person too, which I don’t do.
Along the same lines, I’ve noticed some of the lower priced (10-15 bucks) used women’s shoes I sell go to men (interestingly, all in the deep South) who buy lots of low priced used women’s shoes. Since some of the used shoes are my wife’s, so I began to feel grossed out about it. I haven’t blocked anybody yet but I may begin to. I told my wife and she didn’t care just thought it was funny. Aren’t used socks not sellable on ebay?
Carhartt makes some good stuff for cold weather particularly jackets.
Wow, that is quite sweeping and both specific and vague at the same time. Guess I better make sure not to try to sell anything vaguely sexual.
Mine aren’t relisting automatically. All of my unpaids are from offers. I don’t have an option for turning on unpaid item assistant anymore. I was told in one of my calls to ebay that after all accounts “update” this won’t exist anymore.
Thanks for the comments. So it is about half as much time (4 days) to get someone to pay. Although it is uncommon, the unpaid item case process does compel some people to pay– maybe 20 percent of unpaid item cases I file result in someone paying (the rest just never pay). Just seems to me that here, we will miss out on those 20 percent of sales. For some items, I don’t care, for rarer stuff that is long tail– more irritating.
well I’ll be switched. I didn’t get that update. I have a gut feeling that they this means we will not get credits and the buyer won’t get in trouble for not paying, and ultimately, there is less compelling the buyer not to pay. I have about 2-3 unpaid item cases a week lately.
As others have said I think it is a state by state thing, but I do know in almost all states the duration of time would be from the date they reaffirmed that they want the merchandise. So say they buy it in January, but are emailing you until June about picking it up, then the date it counts from is June. You could google your state laws about abandoned property.
Some of the stuff in this bill doesn’t even sound constitutional. I bet somewhere along the lines it gets knocked down, even if it passes it will probably get people so upset it will get rescinded. Major overreach.
I’ve definitely learned that what Jay is saying is true: if yours is better and special, then you are likely to get more for it. People do pay for condition and quality. Sometimes, quite substantially. I’ve raised prices by up to 50 percent when I think something is really special. Although I don’t know if my cats would let me take home a growling stuffed coyote 🙂
OK so do you go chasing down people who don’t communicate with you? I have had some people send a return, ask about it, and then I tell them to initiate a return and they ask how do I do that. Is it advisable to just ignore at that point? I think ebay’s return system is simple, personally.
Someone can still message you on the same item only after blocking them, but if you report them to ebay if they continue harassing you after blocking, ebay will take action to block them entirely. The blocking still prevents them from buying new items.
