eBay

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎06-20-2023

An Fyi for anyone interested.

Mandated default payment for the make an offer option. When buyers accept your offer, payment is automatic by my translation.

This appears to be in Beta testing in the USA. Was unable to find an announcement. Unsure when/if it will be coming to Canada or if it does so automatically. (Some buyers have already been enrolled?!?!?) There does not seem to be a work around to combine shipping. Will be interesting to see how this feature will trip over automatic payment required settings.

6/15/23

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Mandated-default-payment-for-the-make-an-offer-option/td-p/3381...

Sounds like stay tuned big time

-Lotz

Sounds like this has been in the works for awhile. 2021ish!!

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-testing-immediate-pay-offers/

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎06-20-2023

Link attached for the setting from sellers perspective.

https://www.ebay.ca/bmgt/buyerrequirements

For anyone that has this turned on do you find this setting helpful or detrimental to your sales? Or is it working as intended?

-Lotz

pjcdn2005 · ‎06-20-2023

They have been testing that for a long time but I didn't know if it is now in full 'active' mode.

devon@ebay

Is the automatic payment option for buyers still in the testing stage and only applies to specific buyers? OR is it now applied to all buyers IF the seller has that option enabled?

If it is a full feature now, it it working on both .com and .ca?

devon@ebay · ‎06-20-2023

@pjcdn2005 wrote:

They have been testing that for a long time but I didn't know if it is now in full 'active' mode.

devon@ebay

Is the automatic payment option for buyers still in the testing stage and only applies to specific buyers? OR is it now applied to all buyers IF the seller has that option enabled?

If it is a full feature now, it it working on both .com and .ca?

Hi @pjcdn2005! This feature is still being rolled out and once it is fully available we will be sure to let buyers and sellers know. For now there is only a certain percentage that have this feature.

femmefan1946 · ‎06-20-2023

Although there has been a lot of demand for this from sellers, I can't imagine a way to turn off ~~buyers~~ shoppers faster than a demand to turn over their financial information before allowing them to make Best Offers or to bid in an Auction.

And there have been angry posts on dotCOM, where the testing is taking place, from buyers who at least claim to be fast payers that they have stopped bidding when faced with that demand.