posted on August 23, 2001 10:21:56 PM new
I usually run about 100 auctions a month and have 1 or 2 non-paying bidders a month. In the last 30 days I've had 12 dead beat bidders! Anybody else having an unusually large number of non-paying bidders this month?
posted on August 23, 2001 10:35:09 PM new
We had a very good repeat customer that has purchased more than a hundred items from us deadbeat us recently on 17 auctions. There has been no response to repeated emails. She always claimed to be happy with what we shipped her in the past. What really irritates me is it is too late get our FVFs back.
You would think people would at least have the courtesy to answer emails, even if they didn't want the items.
[ edited by outoftheblue on Aug 23, 2001 11:24 PM ]
posted on August 24, 2001 04:25:27 AM new
I don't care how good a customer is or their feedback count; if they do not respond I file for FVF credit 7 days out and collect 10 days later. Sure there are problems and some do make good, but it's not my job to babysit my bidders. Bidders who expect me to front money to eBay if their computer is down or their mother in law is in town or their check is late might get my sympathy but that's it.
posted on August 24, 2001 07:45:36 AM new
Lots of problems here, too. OTOH, I have personally been out of town a lot, bogged down with personal stuff, so I have some sympathyiof other folks are in the same bind. I try not to let transactions drag on and on, though. I just filed a small batch of negatives and hope I won't have to do more of that in the weeks ahead.
posted on August 24, 2001 07:51:55 AM new
no deadbeats but slow in sending payment.
as they all answered emails promptly and give me their address,i am waiting .
posted on August 24, 2001 07:56:05 AM new
I've been getting checks in the mail from people who've never responded to my emails. I thought they were deadbeats. Fortunately the auctions recently all ended at diff. final prices because only 1 bidder bothered to put the auction info on their check.
Most of my dead beats have been for items that ended at a penny or $1. Pretty said they can't afford a penny. I negged one of them (the others got NARUed before I could neg them) and they responded what an awful person I was because I didn't help them with payment options???? It's nuts! She just didn't send money. She didn't neg me back though.
The only checks I hold now are from Virginia and Florida. People from those places can't balance a checkbook it seems. I know what the prob. is in Va. Lots of these schools are telling them to postdate checks and that the banks don't honor them until that date so they prespend money they don't have. They then find out the hard way that the school doesn't know what it's talking about. All of the check bouncers I've had were people just out of high school.
posted on August 24, 2001 07:57:25 AM new
I've several of those too. I filed NPB's last Sunday, and lo and behold, 2 payments in the mail Tuesday. No note, No apology, just payments like you would send 1 week after the auction, NOT 3 weeks! I also had one that I sent an email asking if they were still interestd in said item. I got an email saying,
HI CINDY, YES I AM...I'M SORRY, I CHANGED COMPUTERS AND LOST ALL MY INFO , IF
YOU COULD SEND AGAIN I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU
Take care of me? Sounds like your the one who needs taking care of, and for that matter, ebay is not ON your computer, you can look at your ebay stuff from any computer, and get info, and email me explaining what happened!!!!
posted on August 24, 2001 04:24:40 PM new
Sounds like alot of you are having the same problem.
Most of my deadbeats have responded to my end of auction email saying they were sending payment, then to a 2nd email when their payment wasnt received in a week or so most saying "i was out of town"..."lost the info, please resend"..."will pay on payday"..."i forgot, will rush payment", etc. Why dont they just say, I'm not paying for it?
posted on August 24, 2001 05:10:56 PM new
In my view, two things are happening...
eBay's media advertising is bringing many new, unsophisticated buyers to the venue and the amount of deadbeats goes up along with the total user number.....even if the percentage stays the same..
We're living through the last spasm of the roaring 90's...many people are just now adjusting their lifestyles to a weakening economy. I have seen more bankruptcies cross my desk at our credit union in the last year than I've seen for most of the 90's
Ever seen salmon spawn? One last spasm of pleasure before they die....
It's going to be a bargain hunters Christmas, I'm afraid....
Honestly, I'll be grateful to admit I'm wrong but I'm not holding out much hope.
Personally, my business hasn't done as well as this month in quite some time...that's because, as a job shop doing machine work repairs, I've seen a large number of customers now not having the money to buy new parts and equipment, instead turning to me to repair their stuff...I always do good when the economy is bad....not that I wish for that...
