posted on December 1, 2000 01:37:12 PM
I must say that this is a first for me. I received a check yesterday by...Express Mail! It wasn't late by any stretch and the cost of sending it this way was more than the check. Given the date on the check, I suspect the bidder forgot to mail it out, and then scrambled to get it to me without an excuse.
Anyway, I haven't had a chance to query the bidder, but I upgraded her shipping without any hesitation.
Wish all bidders were all so conscientious.
I would have been tickled to see it in a priority envelope, but Express???. Wow!
posted on December 1, 2000 01:55:49 PM
Call me cynical, but at $11.75 for Express Mail, unless the check is for considerably more than that I'm betting this bidder took advantage of his employer's "free" postage. I have some nice bidders, but haven't found anybody yet who's willing to shell out that much dough to avoid an NPB.
posted on December 1, 2000 02:15:12 PM
I had the same thing happen about 2 weeks ago. Payment for a $5.95 item w/shipping came express mail! Totally insane!! Her payment wasn't even late.
posted on December 1, 2000 02:49:55 PM
Same thing happened to me...of course I figured her employer picked up the tab...why else spend over $11.00 when it wasn't even late!!! In fact I would have not had a problem with it being late if she just included the $11.00 (less .33 cents of course) in my payment!!!
posted on December 1, 2000 05:37:55 PM
Last week I sold an item to a first timer - she kept bidding in the end and was finally sucessful. Before I had a chance to email her an EOA notice, she had already replied to me asking for payment information. Then when I replied to her and my email wasn't getting to her, within one day, she called information in my city and found my number to call me personally. I found that to be unbelievable for a newbie. Then I told her to go ahead and send a regular check, that I don't hold checks at all and I don't want her to go to the inconvenience of getting a bank check. The very next day, my postman delivers (overnight mail) her Certified Check.
I told her I wish I had 100 of her for customers - she was just SO GREAT for a newbie.
Enjoy these brisk moments of auction bliss while you can, we have so little of them.
www.xenavalloneantiques.com
posted on December 1, 2000 10:25:51 PM
I had a buyer that was just a little late so I email him and he replied that his stamp fell off and the P.O. returned his letter to him. I said "Right" to myself but then I received it UPS RED !! But the kicker is he sent it to my P.O. box so UPS had to send a Postcard to me,so it still took a week and he wasted all that money.
