Frustrated Seller

I have sold a few things and ran into the same problem. Give it some time. People are not online throughout the day like I am, I know that to be fact. They may have set a snipe when the coin was first listed and forgot about it, and until they check their email, they won't realize they won something. Which could easily be a few days.

I would add in your listing people with 10 or more 100% positive feedback only, or something of that nature. While you don't want to alienate someone that got a bad rap from a deadbeat buyer or seller, you also want to make sure that you get your payment. Maybe make it 99.5% or something. Only people with a lot of positives will have a rating like this if you do the math.

Regardless, give it a little time. It took me a week and a half to send payment via personal check for a coin because I had to take a business trip. I didn't have email access for 4 days after the auction end, so needless to say the seller wasn't happy. I explained things and he was very reasonable, but things do happen....

I say wait.
For the most part the Check and money order crowd take between a week and 10 days to send in the funds.
Paypal people almost always pay with in the first 3 days.
It is very rare for me to get any acknowledgment for a buyer other than a check or MO showing up.
"People are strange" I like to bug the people I am buying from by sending them several e-mails telling them when I sent the funds and when the item arrives.

I don't mind waiting on a check or money order so long as I know what I am waiting for. If you are grownup enough to place a winning bid on an item, how much time and trouble does it take to answer a seller's email? To tell you the truth, I hope they don't pay me for the Morgan. It is a duplicate GSA coin I got from my Mother and my local dealer offered me $20 more than the winning bid with no ebay fees.

Okie - I have sold a few coins on ebay...

I have had the same bidder pay quickly on one item and wait almost a week on another...

I have had bidders with 0 feedback pay quickly, and bidders with 100+ feedback (who sniped the bid at the last second - so I knew they were online) wait almost a week to pay...

Go figure?

I would not eliminate 0 feedback bidders...
You can't always judge a bidder by low feedback numbers.
(Everyone starts at 0).

Many people don't check email or go online as often as some of us...
(Some people still have to go to the public library to go online)

Good communication makes buying and selling simpler.

I had bidder send email prior to bidding stating that they wanted the item, but could not pay until next week... (I told them to bid!). That was slow pay, but good communication.

I have been known to comment on good communication or lack thereof when leaving feedback.

I'll chime in here on the side of "wait a bit", for all of the good reasons stated above. I rarely get any form of communication from check or MO buyers, but their payment shows up in the mail withing a couple of weeks. If I don't get paid in one week, I send a gentle reminder. If I don't get paid in two weeks, I inform the buyer that I will be filing an NPB with ebay in 36 hours (or something like that) and I usually hear from the buyer right away. The vast majority of the time, the buyer simply forgot they won the item, and they're quite apologetic.

Update. Sent several nice emails as Bobby suggested with no response. Finally filed an unpaid item dispute and closed it today with a Final Value Fee refund. I also left negative feedback (a rare thing for me). When I did I noticed some other sellers on the same day my item closed also did not get paid and left negatives for this buyer. In a way I am glad as I think my GSA 1884-CC Morgan at about MS-63 was worth more than the winning bid of $165.

Colin

Seth, the buyer was mbsteadfamily.