A late ebay sale before the new regime kicked in was caught up in the new payment regime due to the buyer not paying until the 4th February. Auction value was £500 and to try and avoid any blow back I sent it yesterday special delivery by 1pm today. Unfortunately the buyer was not at home and delivery is noted as attempted only. Ebay will not release the payment as the buyer does not physically have the card in their hand and I am left without card or cash until they decide to collect it from the post office.

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Originally posted by gmmk1964:
A late ebay sale before the new regime kicked in was caught up in the new payment regime due to the buyer not paying until the 4th February. Auction value was £500 and to try and avoid any blow back I sent it yesterday special delivery by 1pm today. Unfortunately the buyer was not at home and delivery is noted as attempted only. Ebay will not release the payment as the buyer does not physically have the card in their hand and I am left without card or cash until they decide to collect it from the post office.

At least you should only have to wait a day or two for the money to be available. One of my recent sales went to the States and took over four weeks to arrive going via a tracked and signed for route.

I've not read the full details of the new rules but I wonder if you fail to use a tracked route will you simply never get paid as there will be no record of any delivery ? If everything has to go via a tracked route, then low value sales are going to cease as they will no longer be viable.

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Originally posted by Kevin F:
I've not read the full details of the new rules but I wonder if you fail to use a tracked route will you simply never get paid as there will be no record of any delivery ? If everything has to go via a tracked route, then low value sales are going to cease as they will no longer be viable.

I think you're supposed to get payment after 14 days if delivery hasn't been logged. Or no buyer has contested the transaction, so that's where the potential scammers can have some fun too, especially if the postie or courier has bad zapping skills to mark the item as delivered.

From several forums I've read that lots of sellers that were selling off comics and things for maybe £1-3 per item were saying the tracked postage requirement will kill off their sales. It's not worth them bothering.

Meanwhile, ebay holding onto your funds all these extra days, get a nice lot of interest accumulating on that money. How fortunate for them...

I've just sold a sketch to someone in the States and put it in the post using Royal Mail International Tracked and Signed For. Hopefully, I will have access to the resulting funds before the end of the current financial year

Update: to my surprise and amazement, the card reached the buyer on the 18th Feb ! So I can get at my money today

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