I accepted an offer on a card today and the listing is still up. I am still able accept more offers until the accepted offer is paid for by the buyer. First dibs for the payer, not just an accepted offer.
Seems kinda cool, I already accepted the offer for $40. If that buyer takes a long time to pay, they may miss out if someone makes a similar or higher offer, I accept, and they pay before the original offer.
Thoughts?
Huge if true
It is huge! No more accepting offers and losing out on 3-5 days for a non paying buyer
I have had offers turned off for over a year and life has been so much easier, but this does seem pretty interesting.
I noticed this feature a week or two ago. Super cool!
Best of both worlds, non-paying buyers still get their account blasted at no loss for sellers. Hopefully it goes live worldwide soon.
I find this particularly interesting as I can’t seem to make an offer on anything without it auto-paying if my offer is accepted?? Have never done a non-payment for something I bid or offered on.
That is another option that sellers can choose (i.e., require immediate payment).
I’m surprised there are still some sellers who do not enable this option.
I still don’t understand why sellers can’t leave buyers negative feedback.
Hasn’t been possible since 2008.
iirc it was removed because less-than-ethical sellers frequently used the threat of negative feedback to encourage postive feedback from buyers. If a buyer left negative feedback anyway, the seller would also leave negative feedback and then use that to try and get the buyer to revise or remove their feedback.
Changes like this tend to happen because the current system is being abused.
Also worth noting that feedback is generally more important for the seller since every buyer can view a seller’s feedback before making a purchase. Sellers can only view a buyer’s feedback after the fact and can’t really do a whole lot in response to it without violating ebay policy.
Require immediate payment >>>>
So what you’re saying is people suck 
In all seriousness it’s unfortunate it’s this way.
I wonder if it should be removed regardless, and only an option if a claim is opened. THAT way, it requires buyers to also be civilized, and it makes it easy for ebay reps to verify and remove unfair feedback. No?
I think it’s very likely that would be abused immediately by the same less-than-ethical sellers. “Close the claim or I’ll leave you a negative” etc
It’s already a crap shoot whether or not unfair feedback will be removed, I don’t believe that would change.
When I collected movie posters, fake posters were a much bigger threat than fake cards. It’s also a hobby dominated by upper middle class lawyers and doctors in their 40s. If you left negative feedback because they sent you a fake poster, they would threaten to sue you for libel and send you a cease & desist.
Happened to me twice.
Good point. Tho, If it’s a reduction of options, then would it be any more of a threat than it is? I mean, someone could say right now, Give me a refund, or I’ll leave negative feedback… Or they could leave negative feedback because they don’t know they could request a refund when damaged… 
Indeed. This is why I dipped out of law school. Hated this behavior and didn’t want to be part of it. (It was also really expensive, and I didn’t know what I wanted in life.)