Nearly died reading that, haha. 
It astounds me how little responsibility people take over the internet.
thatās funny
After dancing around no payment for a month, I find out my buyer is in another country and still expected me to cover postage out of my own pocket (which again, I charitably offered since he appeared to be a domestic buyer). Giving this guy 72 hours and I am done. Oh, and he did mention a family death.
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I think you should just try to sell it to someone else, or relist it.
letās swap it around and also discuss sellers who misled buyers /never send item, say they do, not talking about ones where it gets lost or whatever
Every time I relist it, they ask me to take it down and hold it for them just a few more days.
I am not sure what is harder to believe: that this guy keeps wasting my time or the fact that I let him. :\
You should just relist it. If heās serious about it, heāll buy it again. If he has too many unpaid items, ebay will suspend his account.
I agree with elam18. Few sellers on ebay are deadbeat sellers. I have had far more problem buyers than sellers.
You can also block the ebay member from ever bidding on your items again. Which I would have already done.
eBay ought to have a setting where the seller can demand immediate payment if buyer is rated 5 or less.
Buyers can simply bid only on higher rated seller and/or sellers with many listings because it shows history and future interest.
Good suggestion! I do this aswell. Iāve also had better success monitoring auctions as they happen and cancelling suspect buyersā bids. I look for members with low (<10) positive feedback AND have not left positive feedback for sellers. This indicates to me that they may not follow through with their purchases and may be inclined to file that an item has not been received when it has arrived to their door. I also donāt accept new buyers with zero feedback or those without a Paypal account (this is an amazing buyer restriction to set up!). I understand that everyone has to start somewhere with zero feedback. But unfortunately youāre not going to get your start with me 
itās too risky!
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Can you automatically prevent buyers without a PayPal account?
Iāve never encountered the issue, but it sounds like a great safety measure.
Yep! Itās under eBayās āBuyer Requirementsā section. You can set up all kinds of requirements that will auto-block bidders and thatās one of them! Highly suggest it.
I think legally Ebay could find itself somewhat wanting if a seller decided to take the matter to the law. I have had recent post with ebay on how they can virtually eliminate non paying buyers.
The reality is ebay does not vet their members, so anyone can join, no checks. This could be challenged legally. Auctions are a contract and under contractual law in most jurisdictions, a breach of contract is actionable. Simply refunding oneās fees is often not a sufficient remedy and ebay knows this. I am tempted to look further into this as often legal action focuses minds more abruptly than whining.
Ebay must and will (in time) mandate buyers to deposit funds to bid, its coming because its the only way legally they will be able to operate auctions. Once a bid is made, it becomes legally binding and the seller can relax knowing payment will be received. Pre loaded accounts with funds to meet bids will be mandatory with some additional credit given to consistently good buyers. Yes there will still be problems but buyers will know, once they bid, that is it, they pay or their is a financial penalty for not doing so.
The benefits of this system is huge. Mature market place where buyers and sellers all know the rules and the consequences. Ebay could get away with the rather childish system when the internet was small but now that online buying is established, and they see ebay just turning into a shop, why shop on ebay?
Thoughts!
Yes you are right in much of what you say. I have adjusted my settings to prevent dodgy bidders, but ebay wonāt always be the only option, myspace, yahoo and many others were kings onceā¦ebay is not expanding and if a business canāt expand there is only one way to go, unless it changes
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What @bagoly14 is saying is true. There is no real alternative to ebay. Opening an outside sight store is a good idea, but it wonāt get the exposure ebay receives.
No one can compete with eBay, which is why they can charge their lovely fees.
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Doesnāt mean we have to like itā¦
Pretty much this.
How can you all say that? eBay and Paypal only takes a āmeaslyā 14% of our sales Iām starting to feel that I work for them. In fact my wife thinks I work for these company because a lot of times, their fees are much higher that what I get from selling some of my item.
Internet sarcasm evident enough? 
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Not much you can do. Maybe screen them better and only accept offers from low risk ebayers.
Iād like to end the practice of asking the seller for their lowest price when thereās offers accepted on the listing. Maybe we should only message the seller if weāre willing to deal off auction then the buyer should make an initial offer.
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This is why I donāt do any more auction styleā¦ no immediate payment ><