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The OP of this thread has NOT posted here in literaly YEARS. So we have no way to know what this thing is and I don't ever remember hearing or reading any ones ever questioning it! I have seen similar things on other threads on and off ebay tho so there must be an app for it somewhere. Maybe some one knows more than me about it and can answer your question when they drop by.

deadhead

Why does it take eBay 6 hours to notify me that someone has posted to my watched message board threads?

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Haven't been here for a while so I thought I'd drop in and say hi to everyone. Been keeping busy here and am looking forward to some excitement in the not too distant future *L*

Hope everyone is doing great!

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Beautifulkatz-
Yes, four days after the UID has been opened, you'll be able to close it and get your fees back (and give the deadbeat her strike. IF you leave feedback BEFORE you close the UID, you can make a few relevant comments. But even if she leaves feedback for you at some point, if she has not paid it can be removed.

Sorry to hear that your #2 buyer has gone elsewhere; that's one of the biggest problems that deadbeat bidding causes: lost opportunity. Have you contacted #3?

But unless the price was the result of a "bidding war" which can sometimes drive prices far above what an item is really worth) you at least got some good information if nothing else.

Do a search of the item (it was a doll, if I remember correctly?) and see what others are asking for the same item. Then hit the "Advanced Search" button and look at closed auctions as well. (you may want to consider throwing out the highest and lowest numbers, just like they do in the Olympics.) See how those compare to the price yours reached in the recent bidding.

Between those three (open auctions, closed ones, and yours) you should be able to get a pretty good idea of the "going" price.

The, I'd suggest you relist your auction with a Buy-It-Now price somewhere in that area, with Immediate Payment required. However, there's more to that than just saying in your listings "pay me immediately" (which is unenforceable.)

When you set up your listing, below the part where you enter the price (and remember, it will now be a fixed price ONLY) drop down to the section labeled "Decide how you'd like to be paid." Since Paypal is practically the only payment option, everyone just ignores this section. But just below the Paypal logo and your Paypal email address, look for a check-box for "Require immediate payment when buyer uses Buy It Now."

With that box checked, once a buyer hits the BIN button, he'll be taken directly to checkout, and informed that, since you require immediate payment, the listing will stay open until he has paid you via Paypal.

BOHCAGED - Bend over, here comes another great Ebay deal!

It's just one of those silly apps like the weather or the time; usually you see them countdown events, like vacations or marriages or whatever. I do not know if it is an affiliate program where if someone else makes one you get paid. I don't think so. I see a lot of them on other forums having to do with travel. People just like to brag I guess.

GEEE Can we go and bid on the vacation packages, take the vacay, complain that WE DIDN'T LIKE the hotel or the food or the drinks or the beach or the cabin boy or the way it rained on Day 3 or that we got SEASICK ON THE SHIP and then file a SNAD and have ebay/PP refund us our money????

Can we????

CAN WE????????

Just askin'.

deadhead

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I VERY much agree this is a PITA. When it first appeared I checked it out and to me anyways it looks like a real easy way to LOSE money fast---hey even FASTER than selling on Feebay! Now THAT takes WORK!!!!

If I remember right the basic idea is that you can "opt in" and pay ALL of your sellers at one convenient monthly interval. Like your credit card etc. However!!!! Just like your credit card there was a HEFTY "late fee" if you were 1 nano second late and I am not sure if there was an auto withdraw feature----and we all KNOW how well ebay does things like notify us about things that DON'T cost money---just imagine the possibilities here! I think it was over a $35 fee.

And you have to supply all your financial info for a CREDIT CHECK. Am I paranoid if I suspect that once FleeceBay has this info the sellers who opt for this that might have less than sterling credit might just suddenly find themselves with some sort of bogus "You are no longer welcome at FleeceBay" notice? Gee who could have sterling credit when we are selling things and eBay refuses to get the deadbeats to PAY us???? Hmmmm---

I don't remember if they addressed how your SELLERS get paid tho---do we have to wait around til the months billing cycle is complete and processed? What if Mr and Mrs Deadbeat figure out that they can buy and buy and close the account that payment is coming from just before the bill is due???? Would you get paid at all? Would ebay try and yank that $$$ back from you if the buyer defaulted?

And I think I remember something about monthly fees to the user also but don't quote me on this one. The "lure" of the $15 FREE ebay bucks---which you would have to possibly wait MONTHS to use ---is um nice but not enough for me to be tempted.

I would keep trying to see what exactly the scheme is here just for your own peace of mind--maybe go there thru the PP site?---but I am always leery of things that require a credit check esp since for me this would involve the credit people rolling around on the floor getting tangles in their headset cords and snorting their beverages out their noses---not a pretty picture. With my medical bills and the problems trying to take the MD's who screwed around with my leg to court things kinda got a bit messy in Credit Land around here and we will never have a good credit rating again. This doesn't really bother me-----there was NOTHING we could have done about it in any case---but the thought that a job might someday be denied to either one of us based on this is sickening. I had no use for the credit checkers in the past but now I am rabidly AGAINST anyone you are NOT trying to ACTIVELY borrow money from being able to access your credit history. You have unpaid bills and you need a job---or a BETTER job---to try and pay 'em off BUT you can't GET that job because you have medical bills. Hmmmm can any one ELSE say CATCH 22????


Off the soap box deadhead!!!!!! Down girl!!!!!!!

Hi Guys,

Here is a weird thing that happened to my auctions this week. On my 7 day auctions, none of my items came up in search until the fourth day. One of my customers was looking for something on the first day and then the second and it never came up. He told me this on the second day and I search every one of my auctions and none of them came up in the search. I called ebay and they searched while I was on the phone and nothing came up. They said they would check into it and let me know what they find. Everyday I kept checking and finally something came up in the search on the fourth day of the auctions and as the day progressed all of the auctions came up in search. Ebay has not contacted me yet. Obviously they fixed it, but I wonder what was wrong. I am a TRS, so I should have higher standing in the search, if you can believe what they say. Has this happened to any of you? What could cause it? I got suspicious when there were no views on any of my items, but I just thought it was a slow week. I just put up some 7 day auctions and I will check to see if they come up in search later today or tomorrow. I guess they don't come up right away on the first day. Any insights you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Mam,

My 7 day auctions ended today and the sales were awful also. Very few sales. That is unusual for me too. The new auctions I put up today already have views on them, unlike the last batch of auctions, put up on the same day of the week. Maybe there was a problem sitewide. I hope we find out soon.

O.K. three things....I haven't had any views on about 3/4 of my listings for the better part of last week. Since I have other issues with ebay with respect to their disrespect for we sellers, I figured it was just another co-incidence. I called them and began a tirade about their admitted aggressiveness with respect to holding we the sellers into some high, almost unattainable account. For the first time in three months, I actually got a real live CSR on the phone and were it not for her genuine concern about my issues with ebay at the moment, I would probably leave. But, she understood and offered quite a bit of insight for me, rather than to me....which makes a world of difference. This was last week, BTW when their was no views showing on my listings....ebay credited me for $50.00 as a "one time gratitude" for my diligence and assured me that by May, the couple of issues that sellers had with me over a year ago, would fall off and I would be a TRS. A couple of you remarked that you were concerned that I might be thinking that you were picking on me when you give me the advice. I know that you aren't and I'm not that thinned skin. I appreciate your help and your encouragement. Now, for another issue altogether....I now have an unpaid item....four days in the making thus far. How long do I need to wait? I was told by the buyer, go ahead and send me an invoice once you have packaged and I will pay. The item has been packaged, shipping label attached/paid for, and I've sent three kind emails as reminders. Nothing. I get no response. Even if she would respond, it would help. Any advice? And, apparently ebay is starting to listen to sellers because two CSR's have listened intently to me and my concerns and they informed me that they are indeed getting many calls from sellers with respect to this DSR system and the culpability it is putting sellers in. The only issue I had with respect, less I digress, to the input I've received on this particular thread is that it seems that the implication is that I don't understand the DSR system and as a result, I shouldn't be upset. The real point is that I completely understand the DSR system and I believe that a balance needs to be made between sellers and buyers. If a seller claims something against a buyer, ebay needs to investigate the situation and vice versa. As it stnads, the seller has no recourse. Filing UID's is just one faction of the entire DSR. I agree that for those of you who have much larger numbers that I do and do a bigger volume than I, would want to file UID's. I asked ebay if when a buyer alleges that something is not described correctly, or the shipping was late, or communication wasn't good, then it should be encumbered upon the buyer to prove that claim. I asked ebay if they substantiate any of the information and they said no. I told them, for goodness sakes, in our country even the judicial system doesn't operate like that. I also they suggested that they pay attention to the threads that are running and get a grip of how sellers are feeling. They said they do????

No news report yet but we do have this: Link Maybe in a few days they will break the story in the Charlotte Nc papers.

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Yes. Seems there was a Troll or two that accused us of feeding in to a secondary scam so that the woman could defraud us by soliciting donations. Truth was that no one ever solicited anything but some people...

The Muffin Man says.."BAD JD!..Bad doggie!!!" with rolled up newspaper in hand! Happy thoughts for a Happy Life!