How do you deal with delay/no payment from buyers?

Hi KarissaAngel, the situation is, the item has only 1 winning bid. Thus, I am not very sure who likely it will sell. This is one of the first encounter that I am caught in where the person tells me she needs time to make payment (without success). And no, I can't give her negative rating. (An ability that has been removed from all sellers for some reasons I don't know). Have you met with such situations where the payment never came? What is your solution to it?

Not referring to a negative comment. You can add them to buyers block list. That way they cannot bid on any of your auctions. I have ran into that situation twice. Both times I made a report to ebay and also let them know I want a credit to my account. They provided it, of course. Then I just relisted it. The buyer must follow the rules also. But also I have don't have anyone bid on any of my items unless they have at least a 5 rating. Again I am sorry for this happening to you.

Oh yeah, you are right! I should do that. Don't know why it slipped my mind. Okay, then I shall report them if I ever encounter them in the future. I have set the requirement to allow only people with certain ratings but still, such situation happens. One of these bidders completed a deal with another seller but just refused to response to me. I saw the auction end date was like 1 day after my auction closed and the rating was given 2 days after my auction. That's when I really want to give them a non-paying rating. Can't auction sites have that kind of ability to warn other sellers that the buyer could be a potential non-paying bidder? It's so upsetting to remember but I am fine after voicing out such situation. Cheers

Yes, actually I give them 3 working days to make payment and notify me of payment made. But it seems that the written procedure just failed to reach them and I ended up chasing them. I was deciding to impose a fee to the person for making reservation but I decided to leave it out in the end but impose a deadline. Although I know most likely the item won't be able to get a bidder in such a short time, but it's better than being played around like a fool by the bidder.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. That's what I have in mind as well. Unless the item really can't get going, else it shall goes to the paying one.

Hi, same thoughts here. As long as no payment received, I would not send the items. I will send them notifications for 2~3 times and if they don't response, I will just cancel their bid.

Hi friend, that's a huge amount that you are looking at. I hope that you will recover the money or the parts soon. But you have to prepare for the worst case scenario but hope for the best. For me, I have make it an effort not to commit to a sale (regardless of the amount involved) if the buyer requires me to send them the item before any deposit or payment made because I find it hard to trust them.

No, I can't avoid selling because my room is almost packed with the tons of collection that I splurge on. Thus, I hope that I can sell them off to get some cash back. The frustrating thing is, the online auction website that I used, they have disable the negative rating ability for seller to give a negative rating on buyers. Although the auction site mentioned about able to report on the bidder which will leave a bad record in their database, I don't find it worth the effort for me to report them because they are usually a 1 time bidder with my auctions. And yes, I really find it unacceptable that she has failed to make payment. After all the troubles I went through to help her find the items, she tried to bargain for a lower price. And then came the slow/snail email response (It's almost the time I need to get a response back using snail mailed). And after begging her for like the umpteen time to place a bid which she finally did, she is now notifying me about delayed payment without a deadline. Thus, I am really hoping that I can find some solutions in mylot. Really appreciate your response. Cheers