Best offer on eBay and providing a payment method

[G1911]

It’s been around for awhile now. As a buyer now, I dislike it because I’ve learned from experience it means I’m paying independent shipping on each offer, so if it’s set up this way I don’t make an offer unless I only want one item from the seller.

[packs]

I understand why they make you do it; it's no different than a winning bid and you're supposed to honor all winning bids. But it is annoying because you don't know if it'll be accepted, and therefore you don't know if you have the money tied up in your offer that is ultimately rejected or not.

[taul166]

I ran into this as a buyer. I contacted ebay and they said it was a new feature.

I understand the logic. But, here is the problem I encountered which someone else may have described.

I made offers on multiple items from the same seller. Each was accepted. But each item was processed separately along with shipping. Free shipping would be no problem.
Combined shipping had been offered for multiple purchases but could not be applied.. This caused the seller to have to recalculate total shipping and do multiple refunds to me.

Maybe there was a simple workaround that we did not take advantage of.

Ebay did say a seller can opt out of the feature.