How do you require instant payment on eBay?

rum151man · Feb 19, 2013

4 of my last 6 sales resulted in non payments including a $250 sale. How do you require immediate payment on eBay??? My other question is do you guys think you lose potential sales by requiring immediate payment??? I'm just sick of all these non payments, 90% being buy it now Obo format too

P_Manning 18 · Feb 20, 2013

Even after the NPB was filed... they still didnt pay? That usually does it for me.... 10 days no payment... I file the NPB... 3 hours later payment arrives.

sigma_chi · Feb 20, 2013

When you are creating the auction, if on a computer, there is a little tiny box in the area where you name the fixed price that says require instant payment. On the eBay mobile app there is a button you push in the category of payment info i believe and it toggles from no to yes. Obviously it will only work if the BIN is hit and not for auctions or BO's.

I only use BIN with immediate payment. I might have lost out on a couple sales but it's well worth it to not have to worry about the headache of begging somebody for your money.

swish54_99 · Feb 20, 2013

I could be wrong, but I thought I'd heard somewhere that you had to have a store or certain status to require instant payment....is that true, or can anyone do it?

Hendersonfan · Feb 20, 2013

Haven't sold for awhile, but I thought it was an option when setting price and length of auction. Check around what types of payments you accept, should be there unless eBay changed it.

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Hendersonfan · Feb 20, 2013

After reading above post, BIN option does sound really familiar to having immediate payment required.

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sigma_chi · Feb 20, 2013

swish54_99 said:
I could be wrong, but I thought I'd heard somewhere that you had to have a store or certain status to require instant payment....is that true, or can anyone do it?

I don't have a store and I wasn't aware if I had any certain status or not. Though i did notice a PowerSeller logo next to my name lately...not sure what that means or how I got it.

alifaxwa2 · Feb 20, 2013

Can only require instant purchase when being sold via BIN.

200lbhockeyplayer · Feb 20, 2013

I think anyone can add that to their auction.

For me, with this latest promotion, I set all of my listings to have instant payment. Of course, for instant payment to be required, you cannot have Best Offer...so price fairly.

(I'm a Power Seller too, but I believe that it is not a Power Seller only option.)

cmnkb8 · Feb 20, 2013

The instant payment option is a check box under where you enter your paypal address on the sell your item form. If you don't see the check box, you may need to enable it first by clicking on the "add or remove options" link for that area.

Keyser Soze · Feb 20, 2013

Instant payment cannot be required unless you use a straight BIN-style listing. If you try to utilize auctions or Best Offer option, then you cannot require immediate payment

rum151man · Feb 20, 2013

Thanks guys, almost all my listings are buy it now OBO so I guess I'm going to have think about this one.

Musial Collector · Feb 20, 2013

Keyser Soze said:
Instant payment cannot be required unless you use a straight BIN-style listing. If you try to utilize auctions or Best Offer option, then you cannot require immediate payment

rum151man said:
Thanks guys, almost all my listings are buy it now OBO so I guess I'm going to have think about this one.

You can still do a BIN/BO and have the Immediate Payment requirement added, HOWEVER, this will only be in effect if someone hits the BIN. If someone makes a BO and you accept it, there is NO immediate payment requirement.

rum151man · Feb 20, 2013

Musial Collector said:
You can still do a BIN/BO and have the Immediate Payment requirement added, HOWEVER, this will only be in effect if someone hits the BIN. If someone makes a BO and you accept it, there is NO immediate payment requirement.

this sounds like what I need to do. cause even though I have best offer format seems like about 75% of my sales people just hit the buy it now

swish54_99 · Feb 20, 2013

Thanks guys, that info was really helpful.

nerdherd020 · Feb 20, 2013

I tried but it says that I have to upgrade my PayPal account to Premier. Is there much of a difference between basic and premier status?

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