posted on August 9, 2001 04:44:51 PM
Isn't it great to catch a bidder saying that he never got an invoice from you and then you send him the one were he stated "money order on the way!"?
I email bidder after two weeks.
He states that he never got an invoice from PP and would like to cancel the deal because he already got the item somewhere else.
I send him a copy of the PP email invoice that he got.
He emails me back and wants to buy something else and can only pay via BP. (my auctions say PP)
I file for credit on a mutual no-sale with ebay.
Then I send him the email were he states the money is on the way, 10 days ago!
I know, I shoulda negged him right away.
(can't now because of the credit)
Item was $6.00!
Rotten, stickin' HOBBY listing again.
(I hate that category)
Last time out of 15 auctions 4 had to be credited.
posted on August 9, 2001 05:27:54 PM
Along w/those, I love those bidders who swear they've been too sick to send payment, were away on vacation or had the traditional death in the family. Then when you search on their bidding history, you see they've been buying like crazy the whole time.
I've only used this "knowledge" once when a bidder tried to stretch the "family death" into a full month. After a month of waiting for his payment, he got 3 NPBs and negs from me.
Of course, he promptly emailed to pull the family death routine again & protest loudly about the NPBS and negs. After I gave him a full replay of all the things he'd been bidding on (while supposedly being too bereaved to pay me), I thought he was going to split in two.
He never responded again, never paid and didn't even file retaliatory negs.
