topic Re: Cancelling order in Buying

Cancelling order

penfolds407 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:16:26 GMT

Within three hours of making an order, I tried to cancal that order. Reason I wont be around to collect the item as I am off to celebrate Chinese New Year.

I used the official channel to cancel items and the answer next day was NO CANNOT CANCEL.

Seller seem to be forcing the sale and sent come what may.

Only problem is that the item is bound to be be stolen, undelivered and lost, I know my neigbourhood.

It has happened before to another reclacitrant seller. (I normally re-purchase from sellers who are flexible enough to cancel if my circumstance changes.)

Than what?.

Will I get a refudn if I do not receive the items?

Re: Cancelling order

padi*0409 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:23:23 GMT

@penfolds407 wrote:

Only problem is that the item is bound to be be stolen, undelivered and lost, I know my neigbourhood.

Simply put in a mail redirection with AP (if that's who is delivering the item) for the time you'll be away.

Note, check how much time they need to get the redirection in place.

Re: Cancelling order

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:33:41 GMT

The seller is not forcing, you made the purchase and the seller has been charged fees immediately.

A seller is not obligated to cancelling especially if the item was processed for dispatch already.

As suggested arrange it with the PO to hold mail until you get back.

Re: Cancelling order

sandypebbles — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:53:46 GMT

Buyers CANNOT cancel

The seller is NOT forcing anything

Hard to believe you only found out you would be away 3 hours after purchase (or otherwise why would you buy in the first place)

And it seems you have a habit of buying things and then cancelling

Sounds like it is about time a seller stood up to your bidding and then deciding not to pay

Then what?

Well, if it helps, I would imagine you will be added to many bbl of sellers reading here who have had a belly full of fake bidders wasting their time and money

Re: Cancelling order

gutterpunkz05 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:11:18 GMT

You could simply ask the seller to delay shipping the item, until a date that suits you. I have done this for numerous buyers and it is not a problem to arrange and any late shipment defects are easily rectified.

Re: Cancelling order

go-tazz — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:35:34 GMT

@penfolds407 wrote:
Within three hours of making an order, I tried to cancal that order. Reason I wont be around to collect the item as I am off to celebrate Chinese New Year.
I used the official channel to cancel items and the answer next day was NO CANNOT CANCEL.
Seller seem to be forcing the sale and sent come what may.

So if the seller didn't get/see the message until after they had posted it they can't cancel it.

I've sold items within hours of me going into town and have always posted them so I couldn't have cancelled any

of those as the items were in the mail.

Re: Cancelling order

davewil1964 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:47:03 GMT

The OP seems to have issues.

They only remember that they're going overseas after buying something that will arrive during their journey. I wish I could travel overseas often enough that I couldn't remember which trip was which.

Or, they booked the trip between purchase and attempt to cancel.

They certainly don't understand that Paypal don't refund any transaction fees, so a cancellation will cost the seller money, which could be significant.

They have been lucky in that they have had mug sellers who allow them to purchase after a cancellation.

They obviously don't care about other peoples' money, so why should other people care about theirs.

Re: Cancelling order

*tippy*toes* — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:06:36 GMT

Create a (free) MyPost account and then set up a Parcel Collect with your local PO. Do that before you pay, then you can use your Parcel Collect number and PO to send the parcel to. What it means is, the parcel is delivered to the PO rather than your address. It is very important that you do this before you pay, so you can change the address in PayPal, because a seller can't change the address after payment.

The Parcel Collect address will be something like:

John Smith

Parcel Collect 12345-67890

146 Some Street

Your Town, 9876

The address is your PO address, rather than your own. They will hold the parcel for a minimum of 14 days. If you go and see them and explain, they will often hold it for longer.

Re: Cancelling order

k1ooo-slr-sales — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:27:04 GMT

@penfolds407 wrote:

It has happened before to another reclacitrant seller.

let me get this straight . . . you buy, you pay, you ask the seller to cancel and when they say "no" they are recalcitrant?

Twisted logic there.

Anyway, to keep a few other posters happy I will add this:

Welcome, and thank you for coming to these boards. Please feel free to post here again

should keep the brigade happywwhat what brigade you ask? the brigade that continually say that newbies aren't made to feel welcome I did include a smiley face!!!!!!!

Re: Cancelling order

countessalmirena — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 06:12:07 GMT

k1ooo, I have a special train particularly made (by someone else - it's not one of my creations) for this specific welcoming purpose!

You are hereby declared the Engineer of the Welcome Train.

Re: Cancelling order

springyzone — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:20:43 GMT

@penfolds407 wrote:
Within three hours of making an order, I tried to cancal that order. Reason I wont be around to collect the item as I am off to celebrate Chinese New Year.
I used the official channel to cancel items and the answer next day was NO CANNOT CANCEL.
Seller seem to be forcing the sale and sent come what may.

Only problem is that the item is bound to be be stolen, undelivered and lost, I know my neigbourhood.
It has happened before to another reclacitrant seller. (I normally re-purchase from sellers who are flexible enough to cancel if my circumstance changes.)
Than what?.
Will I get a refudn if I do not receive the items?

You make it sound as if you are being very generous because you will sometimes reward obedient sellers with the honour of a purchase down the track if they are 'flexible', but the thing is, a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

I'm not sure why you expected the ebay seller to necessarily cancel. I am trying to think of any other online site where I can just elect to cancel after paying and I am coming up a blank. Vistaprint will let you edit for up to an hour after a sale, but not cancel. That's about as good as it gets.

I know sometimes some ebay sellers allow cancellations but it isn't a given. If I were you in future, I'd think before I clicked to buy because the expected delivery dates are pretty clear in the ads, surely your problem didn't just pop up 3 hours after you purchased.

As for your parcel. If it is tracked and delivered but then stolen later from eg your doorstep, then I am not sure you would be able to get a refund if the seller has proof of delivery.

Maybe if you aren't there, you will be left a card directing you to pick up from PO.

Either do as others have suggested re postage or else maybe get a neighbour to collect mail and keep an eye out & go and collect it for you.

Re: Cancelling order

k1ooo-slr-sales — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:21:04 GMT

@penfolds407 wrote:

Only problem is that the item is bound to be be stolen, undelivered and lost, I know my neigbourhood.
It has happened before to another reclacitrant seller. (I normally re-purchase from sellers who are flexible enough to cancel if my circumstance changes.)

you are so casual with how you explain yourself that it sounds to me like it has been a regular occurrence.

Do you make a habit of doing this? We know it happened this time, and once before where a seller declined to cancel, and other times where you "repurchase from sellers" (plural)

Also, are your circumstances that peculiar that they "change" between the time you commit to buy and the seller posts?

Are you an on-call international spy? Just curious!

I once bought a bulk amount of lens caps from a USA seller thinking they were a different seller I had wanted to buy from. I honoured the sale . . . and bought the caps I wanted from the other seller. Asking the seller to cancel never crossed my mind. It was only a $20 sale.

What was the price of this item you wanted to cancel?

Re: Cancelling order

daydreams_12 — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 03:41:53 GMT

You are obviously added to a few party lists by now

Re: Cancelling order

springyzone — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:46:32 GMT

@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:
@penfolds407 wrote:

Only problem is that the item is bound to be be stolen, undelivered and lost, I know my neigbourhood.
It has happened before to another reclacitrant seller. (I normally re-purchase from sellers who are flexible enough to cancel if my circumstance changes.)

you are so casual with how you explain yourself that it sounds to me like it has been a regular occurrence.

Also, are your circumstances that peculiar that they "change" between the time you commit to buy and the seller posts?

Are you an on-call international spy? Just curious!

Re: Cancelling order

countessalmirena — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:04:04 GMT

@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

Are you an on-call international spy? Just curious!