posted on October 7, 2000 10:59:45 AM
Auction ended on 9/6. As stated in auction, payments are due within 10 days, which would be 9/16.
On 9/19 (13 days after the auction ended) customer FIRST emailed me stating payment was going to be sent that Friday, 9/22.
Never received that payment. I send a reminder email.
On 9/24 customer emailed me stating payment was going to be sent on Monday, 25.
Never received that payment.
On 9/26 customer emailed me stating that they had sent payment that morning.
Never received that payment.
On today, 10/7, customer stated they are going to mail payment on Tuesday, 10/10.
I just emailed them back and told them not to bother, and that the transaction was void and I was going to file my FVF fees. Enough is enough! They told me they mailed payment on 9/26 and now they are telling me AGAIN they will mail payment next week. It's been 31 days since the auction has ended.
Don't you think I waited long enough for this one??????
By the way: The reason I gave them so long to pay was because they had 689 feedbacks. (7 negatives). Thought they were actually going to follow through! Silly me!
posted on October 7, 2000 11:04:21 AM
yup you waited not only long enough but to long if this buyer wanted a month to make payment they should have just asked and gave good reasoning right up front.
I normally dont let payments lag over 14 days I have found that the buyers tend to lose interest after that point and wont pay any how .
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posted on October 7, 2000 11:13:25 AM
I'd have filed an NPB ten days after the auction closed. Ten days after I file for credit. No payment in twenty days is plenty long enough.
In the time it takes for one email "excuse", one can write a check and put in an envelope to mail.
posted on October 7, 2000 11:14:56 AM
And how many people have sick babies lately?
I'm waiting on 2 payments from people that are running behind tending to sick babies, plus one seller waited a week after I paid by PayPal because her baby was sick, too.
Coincidence?? Or do these people know that's my weakness & it would buy them a little more time...
Am I a sucker for giving them the benefit of the doubt?
posted on October 7, 2000 11:20:35 AM
Oh, geez.. it gets better! She just replied (Yes, she wrote in all caps, sorry!)
WHEN I WROTE TO YOU I DID NOT KNOW I WAS GOING INTO HOSPITAL FOR SURGERY,IT WAS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF EONS AGO,,I HAD THOUGHT THAT IT INDEED WAS,,GETTING YOUR EMAIL STATING I WAS PAST-DUE DID NOT SIT WITH ME,,,,,,,,I CANNOT HELP IF I AM NOT HERE ATTENDING,,,,,,, I HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO, ARE TRYING TO ASSIST ME~ BUT IN BUSINESS THEY ARE NOVICES~ SORRY YOU HAVE TO VOID TRANSACTION,,,,,,,I WROTE ONE EMAIL TO YOU STATING MY INTENTION,,,THAT BEING THE ONE INDICATING THE PAYMENT WOULD INDEED BE SENT OUT,,,,,,,FROM THERE I WAS TAKEN ILL,,,,,,SORRY,,,,I AM TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING LIKE ALL OF US,,,,, AND CANNOT HELP IF FLAWS GET IN THE WAY,,,,,I AM NOW HOME AND TRYING TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT AGAIN,,,,,, AND THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO THIS IS MYSELF,,,,,,,,,THINGS DO GET IN THE WAY SOMETIMES~ ITS CALLED "LIFE"
I just looked at some of her negs and her responses. She's "had" the following tragedies:
Flood
Mother passed away
Surgery
"Life is not perfect"
posted on October 7, 2000 11:24:38 AM
Sounds like best left alone now, you negged the person and have filed for FVF.
Too bad buyers like that make it rough on the rest of us.
posted on October 7, 2000 11:54:06 AM
Did she respond to your neg? Maybe she's hoping that in return for a positive, you'll perpetuate her lie in a response to her response. She may also be trying to send you on a major guilt trip. Of course, if it really is hubby's ex, she lives in her own little reality and would probably believe that her FB to you represented same.......
posted on October 7, 2000 11:56:08 AM
Nope, so far she hasn't responded to my NEG. She responded to most of her other negs, but not all of them. I definitely think this lady is in "her own little reality"!
And to think I was worried about a retaliatory NEG! (But didn't care cause she deserved it anyways!)
posted on October 7, 2000 12:11:54 PM
I had a non paying bidder who gave me excuses of "just moved to another state to take care of dying father..." after a three week of not responding to multiple emails. So I left a negative feedback. The feedback reads: "Claimed father dying and just moved to another state. Transaction not completed." I don't want her to use the same excuses too often.
posted on October 7, 2000 12:45:54 PM
I had an auction end on 9-28 and get no response from the bidder until today which is 9 days later. Her total due was $8.31 and she sent me $7.95 via PayPal with a note at the bottom stating that $7.95 was all she had in her PayPal account and she would pay the rest in a few days. I of course forgave her the $.36 and told her to consider the item paid in full, but it just makes you wonder how many times she pulls this and how many gullible people just like me let it go!
posted on October 7, 2000 06:40:27 PM
wow! seems to me there are a lot of "should be" maybe "wanna-be" writers out there! Imagine the wonderful tales that could be written. Imagine, if you will, how much effin' energy goes into the stories that some people write as excuses for non-pay or for what-have-you. on the other hand, i know first-hand that life happens outside of ebay, as i have had life happen to me. It would be nice if the ebay world was a "kinder, gentler nation", but the fact remains that we are merely words on a computer screen and those words can be the truth or a well spun yarn. Dishonest people are creating a false reality that everyone must exist in when they do not take responsibility for their own mistakes in bidding situations. TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE!
posted on October 7, 2000 07:41:02 PM
The best excuse I've had came from a seller. She notified me that she was mailing my item on a Monday. By Wednesday of the next week, it had not arrived. I emailed her with a question about it.
No answer. On Friday, I email again. No answer. On Saturday, I email from an alternate ISP thinking maybe my previous email were not getting through. In this email I mentioned that I was worried that my mail was not getting through because I noticed she had been bidding and listing all week. And I mentioned that I was lucky that this email program would send me a receipt that would relieve my mind about my emails getting lost.
Her excuse: She's on cable. There was an accident at the end of her street and her email pole was hit. Her cable to connect was okay, but @home told her the email pole was knocked down at the end of her street and she couldn't send or receive email. but it was okay to list and bid.
She had "forgotten" to mail my package. I did get it in the next week.
But I told her that I thought she was "lucky." I'm on cable connection and if my "internet pole" got hit by a car, I'd lose both my connection and my email. That I wish my cable company had been smart enough to divide the email wires and the internet wires between different poles.
Duh, it is very hard to write an email like that and keep a straight face.
posted on October 7, 2000 08:18:58 PM
Yep, same thing happen to me. This bidder is going to pay by Paypal. After 10 days I still have not see the payment. She is stating her mother has a hearts attack. She wouldn't pay it on time, but she will. So, when? I hate people like that.
posted on October 7, 2000 08:28:03 PM
I'm amazed how many sellers posting here get excuses. I've had a fair number of non-paying bidders, but I don't recall any who gave excuses. I've also had plenty of non-selling sellers... only two bothered to give excuses. In both cases its usually silence.
