I was wanting to buy multiple items from a seller and every time it said, "my cart is empty". Instead, I got a message saying "we automatically charged your card."
@readingapple eBay removed the option to "buy it now and continue shopping with this seller" years ago. You are supposed to put all the items in your cart, and then request a total. Of course, that rarely works. There are various reasons why not, and most often the "request total button" (which should also be a commit to buy) does not function. A seller cannot see what is in your cart unless you can commit to buy.... If you are using an app, the request total won't even be there at all. You can still PAY for all items in your cart at the same time, but the shipping charge will be included for each item. Only once, as a buyer, I had a single item in my cart. I chose to "checkout" and a card I had on file (as a requirement to be a seller which I had not sold anything for a few years) was "automatically charged" simply by clicking the checkout button. Actually, I thought I would have been given a choice to select my payment method i.e. PayPal, c.card, debit card, etc. ...it was all done in the blink of any eye with no selection ever presented. I don't know why this happened, but I am very careful not NOT to do it again. At the same time, eBay is working on having your payment source used automatically for offers you accept, auctions you win, etc., but so far that program is not completely functional. At best, eBay is requiring SOME buyers to put up a funding source prior to making an offer. The next stage is supposed to be an auto charge if a buyer accepts an offer. Unless you can provide a more step-by-step scenario of what happened, and why your c.card was stored in eBay for this to happen to you, we can only guess at this point.
