posted on October 2, 2001 12:37:01 AM
I've filed approximately 50 NPBs in the last several days (43 of them going to the same bidder -- waaah!). I've received exactly 5 of the e-mails myself, and don't know if the bidders have received theirs or not.
posted on October 2, 2001 03:02:38 AM
i filed one last thursday. still haven't gotten my copy of the email, but i have heard from the buyer, who got her copy.
posted on October 2, 2001 03:09:30 AM
I just filed three NPB alerts about half an hour ago.
I received one copy from ebay almost instantly, there has been no sign of the other two copies.
posted on October 2, 2001 03:26:31 AM
As long as you did it, you are covered. If eBay screws up, as is their norm, it's too too bad for the deadbeats. My guess is they aren't sending to sellers, but bidders are getting theirs. Cheaper than buying a new mail server. I've had this happen before.
Not necessarily. ebay will NARU if 3 UNIQUE sellers file NPB/FVF but not necessarily if one person files multiple NPB/FVF on a buyer.
I had a buyer I thought I was going to have to file 9 NPBs on & inquired of ebay if that would suspend them. ebay responded it had to be from unique sellers.
Now, you might still ask them to "review" the buyer's situation in light of the volume of NPBs but it's not a guarantee they'll do anything.
And yes, they CAN leave you 43 negatives and it not be considered feedback bombing. I asked about that when I was facing the 9 in a row. Mercifully for me, the buyer came through and eventually straightened everything out.
posted on October 2, 2001 09:25:44 AM
Just wanted to mention that I'm doing something now with my buyers if I haven't heard from them 3 days after I send the EOA stuff.
I pull up the original email I sent them, from my "sent" file, alter the subject line to say, first, "second (but friendly!) notice" (all in caps),leave the rest of the subject line intact, and re-send it. I have had 100% response so far since spring.
I think that "second notice" really gets their attention, for some reason!
posted on October 2, 2001 09:42:30 AM
I read on another post here that the bidders are getting the notices but seller may not.
I've gotten someone NARU'ed after requesting FVF's for 3 auctions they bid on, possible someone else made request too and didn't leave them any negative feedback I guess.
posted on October 2, 2001 12:43:28 PM
cin131 -- This particular buyer was NARU before I filed the NPB's. She can't neg me, nor can I neg her (and I probably wouldn't have, anyway, as I very rarely leave negatives).
It takes 3 different sellers to cause a non-payer to be suspended -- apparently at least 3 other sellers had filed their NPB's before I did.
Bad thing is, this particular bidder has bought from me in the past and has always paid. I looked up her bidding history, and she's bid on nearly 2,000 auctions in the last 30 days. I waited 5+ weeks, but she stopped responding to e-mails almost immediately after the auctions ended -- not a peep since her initial contact.
posted on October 2, 2001 04:02:59 PM
okay, i was going to start a thread, but (and i hate to sound like an idiot)...are any of these people that were in the 6000 people that died or missing...most of my npb are from b4 the attack
posted on October 2, 2001 04:20:44 PM
Or maybe a relative of one of the now close to 6600 missing (including Arlington too).
I had a buyer who wanted me to mail it to him at work. He was 62nd floor. Still haven't heard from him. Feels freaky. He paid day before it happened. I pulled his contact info and left message on machine/voice mail and no one has called me back. I just hoping he lived in the area as well and was just evacuated. Feels weird, talking to someone by email just the day before something like this occured. I sent him an e-mail around 7am that morning saying I'd mail his package that day and hoped he'd have a pleasant day. I was going to the p.o. that morning when I heard the news. It never got shipped.
posted on October 2, 2001 04:43:21 PM
I wondered about that possibility with my bidder, but she lives in the western U.S., and these auctions ended at least two-three weeks before the WTC attack. And she was still actively bidding up until the time she was suspended, which had to have been sometime in the last week, because I looked a few days earlier and she had current bids out.
I personally think she just got in over her head (we're talking almost 2,000 bids) or she failed to keep good records of who she'd paid and who she still owed.
