antiquefreak
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posted on October 3, 2000 08:29:31 AM new
A sampling of my email this week from buyers... REAL excerpts, unedited.
...sorry but my computer was in the shop it crashed a couple hours after i put
my bid in
...Did I email you regarding payment? Thought I did. If not, I'll be sending
it out - hope that's ok - my $23 oil change turned into a $230 oil
change AND brake job!
...I am so sorry, I had to go out of town suddenly last Monday and
forgot to mail the check and during the week, I just forgot about it.
...Sorry about that, I'll make sure it goes out this weekend.
...Sorry about all the delays but the check did go out late last week
...Sorry about the delay.Will get the money in the mail tomorrow.
...I am sorry to have delayed - I had to go to Seattle this week for work and did
not get home to check my email until today.
...I'm so sorry but before I went to Canada I left a signed check
with my sister-in-law to mail to you. She was busy with the kids and work
and forgot!
...Sorry. was out of town last week
...Oh no!Sorry! I forgot.
...I had a family emgerncy.Sorry. Will sned soon.
...Please forgive me. I thought I sent payment last week. Sorry.
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I, too, am sorry if I've bored you with this posting. (But I feel much better now.)
(Not Antiquefreak on ebay)
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hammerchick
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posted on October 3, 2000 08:50:19 AM new
Sorry this is not related to Ebay but I thought it was so funny I wanted to share it. A guy my husband works with called in and said he wouldn't be at work because he had "been attacked by a Llama". My husband believed it because he thought it was too crazy for someone to make up. Found out later the guy had gotten drunk and stubbed his toe on the furniture and thought it was broken. Why couldn't the guy have just said he was sick??? I don't mind as much with the Ebay stuff if they just say they forgot because that does happen occasionally, but I agree some of the stories get pretty wild.
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feistyone
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posted on October 3, 2000 09:03:21 AM new
Excuse for the seller.
I'm sorry but I forgot to mail your package last week. I didn't contact you because my computer crashed and I had to take it to the shop. I was going to mail it yesterday after my oil change but I had to have a break job and my bank account balance was too low. I am going out of town tomorrow so I can't mail it till I get back, unless there is a family emergency, if so I will mail it when the situation is resolved, unless I forget.
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ehansen
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posted on October 3, 2000 09:13:19 AM new
Out of 128 auctions, I've only had one buyer like that. It went from "Check's in the mail" to "Check will be in the mail" to "Check was sent on Saturday". Which one should I pick? I think it's kind of comical when people forget what they said last time....the whole email thread could've been summed up as, "The check is in the mail because I'm sure I sent it a couple of Saturdays from now".
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amy
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posted on October 3, 2000 09:39:16 AM new
As long as the money ends up in my hot little hands I don't mind the excuses 
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llama_lady
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:02:14 AM new
hammerchick Boy that guy gives llamas a bad name. They do not generally attack people. geesch What happened to good ole honesty?
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RainyBear
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:06:14 AM new
Attacked by a llama, lol! 
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mballai
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:36:10 AM new
I prefer an apology to no answer even if the excuse is lame.
I do wonder why so many people don't have the sense to cut a check and mail it when an auction closes. What is so hard about that?
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antiquefreak
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:36:59 AM new
hammerchick: A+ for originality! (I live about a mile from a llama farm, so guess it sounds somewhat like a possibility!)
feistyone: Good reply! Would just love to send an email like that!
amy: When I post my terms and conditions (payment within 10 days), I DO mind the excuses - particularly so many within a two week period. I don't post that many auctions and this represents about 25%. I don't appreciate the obvious lies which are childish and insult my intelligence.
I've been selling on ebay since early 1997 and have never seen so many people with so many excuses.
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yisgood
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:42:18 AM new
Dear seller;
It's been two days since I sent payment and I still havent gotten my item. If I dont hear from you by tomorrow, I demand a full refund. And by the way, it arrived broken so I expect a full refund including shipping costs. Yes, the check is in the mail. I know it's been two weeks since I won the auction but my PC crashed, my car broke down and my third grandmother died and my dog ate my checkbook. I will be sending out the check asap. By the way, I already won another auction for the same thing so I dont need this one, sell it to the next bidder.
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ascorti
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:46:23 AM new
>>I do wonder why so many people don't have the sense to cut a check and mail it when an auction closes. What is so hard about that?
I agree, BUT...I also wonder why so many sellers don't have the sense to mail out my package when they receive my payment. Frankly, I've had far longer delays by sellers, for the same type of lame excuses, than I have with buyers.
Ascorti
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antiquefreak
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posted on October 3, 2000 10:50:12 AM new
mballai: Yes, I do prefer a lame excuse to nothing at all. At least one still has hope!Dead air on the other end is never a good sign.
yisgood: About a year ago, my dog really did eat my checkbook! And my wallet, money and credit cards. He was a valuable little guy for awhile until plastic and green started appearing in the back yard! I still present a completely mangled health insurance card at doctor's visits!
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barkrock
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posted on October 3, 2000 06:25:30 PM new
Inquiring minds simply must know...
Have you ever told them at the doctor's office that your insurance card was processed through your pet's digestive system?
I'm terribly curious about their reaction to such news.
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sonsie
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posted on October 3, 2000 06:39:48 PM new
Years ago, the family dog ate a sequinned top and skirt my mother had painstakingly made for a very important gathering. I thought she was going to kill the dog, then kill herself. Of course, she didn't do either one, but she sure was grumpy for months afterwards, becaused those damned sequins kept showing up daily in the dog deposits!
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igetbargains
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posted on October 3, 2000 06:59:29 PM new
It always cracks me up when I get an email saying...I found the money order between the seats of my car, in a pile of bills, whatever, and forgot to send it. Then, when it arrives, the money order is dated days after the date the email was sent. Don't these people know I "am" a rocket scientist?
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CAgrrl
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posted on October 3, 2000 08:59:07 PM new
antiquefreak- my email from customers looked just like yours this week. I can't get over how many "deaths in the family" there were this week! I'm late on my rent because most of my customers are deadbeats. what am I supposed to do, call my landlord & say "my customers all had deaths in the family, except the ones who forgot to put postage on their payments and the checks got returned to them, so your check will be in the mail as soon as I can collect from them!" sheeesh! It's on my nerves!!!!
I also had a "deadbeat seller". I won 3 of her items and paid her by postal money order on 9/11. It is now 10/3 and I STILL haven't received my 3 items and am getting lame excuses from her. I can appreciate that people are busy and things do come up, but HELLO! Please don't sell on Ebay if you're too busy to package & send my items when I pay you promptly!
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quickdraw29
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posted on October 3, 2000 09:07:22 PM new
Yea we live in such a great society that would rather throw a drug pusher in prison for twenty years rather than accept that selling ANYTHING is really not a crime. Then such wonderful people that we are who live in such a crooked society gets a little upset when a buyer has a real life experience that cause a two week delay of mailing a check for a piece of junk that you just bought at a garage sale for 50¢ and resold on ebay for $25. Examine yourselfs for your own faults and don't worry so much about your neighbor.
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queenkatrina
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posted on October 4, 2000 04:37:58 AM new
Feistyone said: "I'm sorry but I forgot to mail your package last week. I didn't contact you because my computer crashed and I had to take it to the shop. I was going to mail it yesterday after my oil change but I had to have a break job and my bank account balance was too low. I am going out of town tomorrow so I can't mail it till I get back, unless there is a family emergency, if so I will mail it when the situation is resolved, unless I forget."
Hey, A seller really pulled this BS on me for two months. Same sort of stuff.I kept requesting that he either ship the item or refund my money. He finally refunded. I posted negative feedback on him and he outright lied in return in negative feedback for me saying "I kept changing my mind". Moron. Bad, bad Ebayer!
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