The item sold July 5. I promply cancelled the check and wrote back an explanation. I have since written back and sent an invoice every day and he has yet to reply. As a matter of fact all 4 of my sales that day havent replied. The new eBay kinda really suks so far.
He has a perfect feedback of 127. I knida hate to report him as no pay, but I think I have no choice.
Ebay sucks for you because you are going about it all wrong.
The first thing is, I don't understand what's the big deal about an E-check? You wait, it clears, and it's the same as he paid you instantly. In some situations when the buyer draws from his bank account and not his PP balance it has to go as an E-check. That is what happens for me, so I make a point to always have enough money, but it's the back up if I run short. A few years back I had to send E-checks for a week straight for many items and never had a problem. I've also received my fair share too, and even shipped many things before they cleared, and still never had a problem.
Next... it's not too late, talk to the guy and figure it out. There's nothing worse than the other party acting in a negative manner and not explaining themself. It's not too late to take an E-check (write him and send another invoice saying you made a mistake)... but if you still don't want to, surely don't file a non paying bidder on the guy, just go through the same process, but cancel the transaction and you both walk away the same as before the transaction. But talk to the guy! Most people are reasonable.
How long has it been since you sold? The bottom has fell out of lots of stuff because the supply is up, and demand is down. It's had to say anymore not really knowing what you're selling, but things like double listing helps, as does doing a higher volume to get a lot of traffic. For many things Ebay seems like it has changed in the way that you have to tie up more money and run it like a store, than just do straight auctions and get great prices, but again it depends what you sell. For me it's a balance of both, but I know my market and what to expect out of my listings.
PS: I have done the ebay thing for a lot of years with a lot of transactions, and for some weird reason every time I start back after a break things go terrible and I really doubt myself, and as you are, the whole system too. First I get mad, and then frustrated, but then go like hell and a few weeks later it's feeling like things are better than ever. It's like in detecting when you can't seem to get over a good target no matter what you do, but a short time later your coil gets hot and the great finds seem to find you. The difference is the thinking part in detecting is finding the site to have the chance, where as in Ebay it's the over all strategy to sell. Last week on the show secret millionaire the guy said something that stuck with me, it was that to increase business there's two ways to do it.... sell the same stuff to more people, or sell different stuff to the same people. I plan to try to do a little of both.
