buyers taking too long to pay

[d4nf4rny]

Seriously, if you can be online to bid, you can be online to pay. There's absolutely NO EXCUSE to not pay within a few minutes of the auction ending. In my opinion, it should be a maximum of 12 hours, just in case the auction ends in the middle of the night or whatever, after that, it should go down as a non-payment. It's ludicrous to allow 4 days to pay, you couldn't do that anywhere else. 

[buffster1963]

Ebay allow four days so some buyers take advantage of that. I knew one person who would bid knowing they would not even have the funds when the auction finished but would have them before the four days were up. They always paid but its not something i could do. 

[sml192 · Accepted solution]

1.  Some buyers use bid sniping software to automatically place a bid so they aren't necessarily online when the auction ends;

2.  You can set your buyer requirements so that buyers are required to provide payment details before they can place a bid.  The buyer will then have 1 hour from when the auction ends in which to make a manual payment after which payment is automatically taken from the payment method they have provided. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer rules

✅Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid

[asleepingdragon]

I'd like sellers to post next day or at most the day after but loads don't.  The worst ones are the ones sitting on my item, after I accepted their best offer and paid instantly, for a week and telling me eBay gives them that time to ship.  So it works both ways.

[*vyolla*]

I do think that it could be taken down from 4 days to 2 days. I'd have thought that would be adequate time for a buyer to make payment.