posted on April 6, 2001 12:24:11 PM new
I just got off the phone with a fellow who I reported days ago as a deadbeat via fvf. I had been after him to pay for about a month and he had told me that "the check is in the mail" twice. I never received anything. This call was apparently in an effort to get the NPB warning removed. I warned him by email that I had not gotten payment several times, but he complacently had no response to my emails. I sent him a final email over the weekend, telling him I was going to probably have to treat this as an NPB if I didn't get payment. Waited a couple more days to hear from him then filed FVF. That was on Tues. Today he calls, says ebay JUST sent him the warning notice and he wanted to pay for the item. I told him I never got anything, asked him if he checked his email regularly and he said yes. I had a feeling he was lying to me and trying to get grounds to appeal the NPB. I had someone local who had asked me about this item before, so in the meantime, after filing fvf, I sold this locally, off ebay. I couldn't sell to the deadbeat if I wanted to. He then proceeeded to tell me how unfair I was to sell to someone else! I finally had taken all I could stand and hung up. I forwarded our correspondence to safeharbor, in case he appeals THE NPBW. I figure that's what he was trying for. Anyone ever had anything like this?
posted on April 6, 2001 12:30:16 PM new
A couple of times. It's amazing how fast a response an NPB gets from someone who couldn't be bothered before. Tell him he's a day late & a dollar short and move on.
posted on April 6, 2001 12:41:30 PM new
I just get sooooo tired of having to deal with deadbeats and their stories. If it sounded legit I would have been willing to give the benifit of the doubt. However, I've had jokers like this who in the past conned me into thinking they'd pay, and then waited till I was preoccupied with other auctions. "It's in the mail", I'd be told and then the 45 days elapsed beyond the alert and I couldn't collect my FVF. NEVER AGAIN! I expect I may get negged by this guy for what I did. Ebay really needs to change their feedback policy with regard to deadbeats. That's where the negs come from.
posted on April 6, 2001 12:58:49 PM new
I had a bidder with 500+ feedback once who wouldn't pay. He kept stalling and doing the "it's in the mail" routine, so on Day 30 (my standard procedure), I filed an NPB on him.
The next morning I found an IRATE letter from him, saying that the NPB was unfair and how I had no right to do that, and to check his feedback, and on and on. (He did have a few negs for non-payment, FWIW!)
On a whim, I did a seller search on him, and found that he stated in his own auctions that he files NPBs on his non-paying bidders after 30 days! I pointed that out to him in my next e-mail, and he didn't say another word. He did eventually pay.
And then there's the bidders who don't respond to your e-mails or NPBs, but, boy, if you happen to be the third (or fourth) seller to file FVF on them and they get suspended, soooo many times I get a note from them shortly afterwards saying how they meant to pay for that item, and can they pleeeeease still buy it? And of course, would I pleeeeease tell eBay that they paid? And then there's the occasional angry bidder who "blames" their suspension on the individual seller, just because that seller happened to be the 3rd (or 4th) seller to file for FVF credit.
posted on April 6, 2001 10:48:26 PM new
I just love it when people don't notice when payment is due. I filed a NPB alert on a bidder who later did pay yet claimed "sick". Sick several weeks? Highly unlikely!
posted on April 7, 2001 07:47:18 AM new
I am not trying to be a trouble maker, but I just got through with an illness that took 6 weeks!! I was lucky. I live with my son, and he took care of both my selling and my buying. I just wanted you to know that sometimes you can be truly seriously sick for three weeks.
He did eventually pay.
