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Originally Posted by JollyElm
Is there a way to hit BIN and actually get (secure) the card without paying for it immediately? I know it was easy in the good old days, but believe it changed a while back and immediate payment is always required now??
Here's why. Saw a card I wanted to jump on, but then saw another card from the same seller that I also wished to purchase. His auctions state that you only pay shipping on the first card and everything else goes for 'free.' When I put them in my cart and went to checkout, it charged shipping on each card separately, and the only option I had was to pay for it now. No 'request total from the seller' or anything else. One of the cards was definitely going to be bought by the next person to see it, so I had to act fast. My decision was to just buy (and pay for) it by itself in order to secure it (in other words, making sure someone else doesn't jump in and steal it right from under my nose). Then I contacted the seller about the other card and told him how I was getting double-postaged, and he said to simply buy the second card and he'd refund said postage (which he did). My question is this. Is there a way to hit Buy-It-Now on these cards and pay for it later, after the postage has been corrected? It certainly would've saved me some anxious moments.
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I had this happen to me just last week. I was looking at some autographed 8X10's and the seller had 6 that I wanted and his listings said that he combined shipping. I added all 6 to my cart and went to pay, but it was going to charge me shipping for each one (@ $5 each). The option to "request total" was grayed out. When I hovered my mouse over that option it said, "You can't request a total for items that require immediate payment."
I contacted the seller and he did something on his end and asked me to try it again. That time it worked. I had to commit to buy, but then it sent a message to the seller requesting a total and the seller sent me an invoice. All was good. I don't know what the seller did on his end. If I had to guess, maybe change the listings to make them where immediate payment wasn't required? But I don't know for sure.