Protection from what? What do you lose when a buyer doesn't pay?
If you want your final value fees refunded you file an Unpaid Item Dispute, if you actually paid a listing fee, well that's a nickel or dime you won't get back.
If it bother you that much don't run Auctions and set all your Fixed Price to Immediate Payment Required.
http://pages.ebay.ca/help/pay/require-immediate-payment.html
You cannot lose something you never had. All you are out is the expectation of profit. Every time you go in a store, every item you pick up, you buy? I thought not. Isn't that retailer entitled to the sale you promised by picking up the widget.
Yes, it is the same.
I have used flat rate in Canada, to the USA, worldwide for a decade. Works perfectly. Buyers can see up front what the total cost to them is.
Under 250 g's: USA $8 Canada $10 world $10
250-500 g's: USA $10 Canada $10 world $20
BIN with IPR works perfectly every time.
That does not work because eBay expressly provides escape routes out of each contract. Thus, by not enforcing what they say is a contract, there isn't one.
For a contract to exist there must be the exchange of consideration. There is no exchange, eBay invalidates them all at whim.
I know what you are saying. I know what you want. It will never happen. What eBay chooses to call a contract, does not exist. in the real world.
For a contract to exist there must be the exchange of consideration. There is no exchange, eBay invalidates them all at whim.
I know what you are saying. I know what you want. It will never happen. What eBay chooses to call a contract, does not exist. in the real world.
@reallynicestamps wrote:True enouth mr elmwood, but you leave out the part where a unique or hard to find item is taken off the market for several days, during which a more reliable buyer might have found it.
Admittedly, the important word is might. Maybe , perhaps, in a fairer more perfect world, if only.
Well, this has happened to me on at least one occasion I can recall, where a unique and rather expensive vintage garment was purchased, then sat unpaid for 6 days. It had attracted a dozen watchers within a couple of days, which in my category usually translates into a fairly quick sale.
I opened a claim for non-payment, closed it (without being paid) after 7 days, then relisted the item. This was nearly 2 weeks later, and with the loss of all watchers -- the listing effectively started from scratch, and who knows where the original interested buyers may have gone? Moved on to other sellers' items no doubt. So, yes, there are consequences for non-payers who don't honour the purchase "contract", and eBay provides recourse for sellers in such situations, but it is often at a cost to the seller.
Granted, I could have listed my item with Immediate Payment Required, but I like to give buyers the opportunity to shop for a couple of days if they want additional items, and I've learned that IPR does not work with combined invoices. I admit though, that the second time I listed the item, I decided to use IPR regardless of the disadvantages.
'Mr. E.' may have a different point of view on this, partly because of the type of items he sells. They are practical things people need. When you're selling discretionary/luxury items, a lost sale is probably lost forever, or at least for a very, very long time. With things like car parts, I imagine someone else will eventually come along who needs that piece of equipment, even if the first person reneges on a sale. Sometimes I wish I were selling car parts. 
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