When someone offers, buys or wins something and doesn’t pay, how long do y’all usually wait before cancelling the order? 1-2 weeks seems standard right, especially if they do not answer contact attempts?
I cancel if I’ve not had any contact from the buyer in 3 or 4 days. 1-2 weeks seems far too long to me, especially if you’ve tried contacting them and they’ve still not responded.
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after that long with no contact hit them with a not paid strike
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1 week is fine, you can use the ebay system to give them a “not paid” strike.
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2 Days for Offer, as soon as I can basically. If you submit an offer then don’t pay or respond for 2 days, that is inexcusable and I block them as well typically.
2-3 days for an auction, same story.
I send an invoice for both, then a message and then unpaid request. I don’t have time to play stupid games with non payment people, 99% of the time if they don’t pay within 2 days and don’t respond, they aren’t going to pay. I want to relist the item for someone who actually wants it so I want it back up as soon as I can.
If a buyer tells me he will pay by X day, that is fine.
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Good point about the 2 weeks haha. Currently been 5 days with no answer.
Immediately as soon as eBay allows (2 day open case, 3 more for strike) unless the buyer has prearranged something specific and stand to their time frames agreed upon prior. I always follow through with the unpaid item strikes regardless of their reason to help my eBay selling brethren filter them out.
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If they communicate with me, I will wait (1) week. If nothing, I relist within a day or two as I don’t think you should buy something if you can’t afford it right then. Just my opinion though 
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There’s nothing worse than selling an item on the 15th to have the buyer message you saying “I don’t have the money now, I’ll pay in 2 weeks”. If you don’t have the money you shouldn’t be buying the thing in the first place!
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I have it set to 2 days; if they want to delay payment then I’m happy to accomodate that, but I think it’s common courtesy to arrange that before ‘buying’ the item.
As an aside, I always find it funny when people message you like ‘will you take [40% less]? I’ve got the money ready to go’ like… great? That is almost the bare minimum sir!!!
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My settings auto-opens cases for nonpayment. That way buyers can’t get insulted.
Generally 2-3 days. I always send the buyer multiple messages before opening a case as a courtesy to them. If they don’t respond after 2-3 days, I open the case.
“PayPal ready, buddy!”
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Maybe we need a thread for choosing beggars? Could be fun
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I always pay the same day as winning an auction or an offer was accepted. Most of the time I will pay soon after the auction is over.
Not a seller, but I would be frustrated if it took a week to get paid.
Yeah same as a buyer I pay right away no matter the way I buy.
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Surprisingly I haven’t had a non paying customer for so long I can’t remember exactly but I have it set up for eBay to automatically open a case. I believe it’s a week though.