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No personal experience, but from a little research I found that deadbeat buyers of cars are quite a problem. For the seller, you have to file a claim for unpaid item after 2 days have passed from the end of the "sale." You have up to 32 days from the end of the auction to file the claim. Then, the buyer has up to 4 days to pay, after you filed your claim. If he doesn't pay, you have to manually close the case and you will receive your Final Value Fee credit. If you don't manually close your case, after 36 days pass from the end of auction, the case is automatically closed and you lose your Final Value Fee.

The kicker to all this, from complaints I've seen on line, is that while the case is in dispute, you cannot re-list the car nor contact 2nd in line bidders and sell to them. Your money and vehicle is tied up for the duration until ebay closes the claim. Add to this any time it takes for the "buyer" to challenge the claim or give false information about the sale, and you have a real headache.

A little Googling shows a lot of seller dissatisfaction with the system and the inability to avoid deadbeat buyers.