posted on July 2, 2001 08:18:28 PM
This is really weird and I don't know what I should do.
I sold an item, which closed on May 24. After 3 emails, and an NPB notice, the only response I get from the bidder (on 7/2/01) is a FEEDBACK, saying the item had arrived.
Well, it couldn't have arrived, I haven't sent it because I haven't gotten the payment for it!
I sent in the NPB after 30 days, and reauctioned the item. It has bids on it as we speak.
So, what should I do? Respond back to the person saying, how could you have it? You didn't pay for it!
Or just ignore it and let sleeping canines remain in repose?
El
"The customer may not always be right, but she is always the customer."
posted on July 3, 2001 05:44:13 AMI sold an item, which closed on May 24. After 3 emails, and an NPB notice, the only response I get from the bidder (on 7/2/01) is a FEEDBACK, saying the item had arrived.
Oldest deadbeat trick in the world. They are hoping you will not neg them, and complete the FVF request. I have a few of these scattered in my feedback. I would not reply to it, as it gives them another shot at your feedback if/when you neg them.
Who Need's a stink'n Sig. File?
posted on July 3, 2001 06:05:06 AM
Hmmmm...interesting...if a person had a suspicious nature they could suspect this bidder of laying the groundwork to challenge a FVF/NPB. Now that eBay is "cracking down" (insert wild cackling here) maybe someone approaching the 3-NPB cut-off point might write to eBay upon receiving their electronic hand-slapping and say "Hey! Seller's a liar! We got our item--we even left good feedback for it!" thus putting the onus on the Seller to prove somehow that the deal was never consummated.
How do you prove you didn't sell an item?
Oh boy, I just gave myself something new to ponder.
posted on July 3, 2001 07:35:05 AMPossibly easy to prove on unique widgets, but not so easy on items a seller relists again and again.
The thing I'm pondering is that eBay seems to consider filing a "false FVF request" as harrassment, a very serious offense. So if a buyer who is trying to avoid suspension falsely answers the eBay notification that the FVF is not true, that he paid cash through the mail and received his item--how much effort does a seller have to put into proving his "innocence?"
What would be involved in proving to eBay that an item that a seller has a history of relisting over and over again is the same one the buyer has claimed to have already received? Even if it's something you have only a few of--and your account shows you've sold one last week, one this week, and one's up for sale to end next week--it could be a hassle. Heck, there are even things that I think are unique, but a quick search on eBay shows a number of identical items up for sale so they're certainly not "rare"--does ebay just take a seller's word that the widget in his inventory is the same one the bidder claims to have paid for and received?
I'm really not being paranoid about it, just saying, this could be a different feedback trick sellers need to watch.
