topic Re: Non paying bidder in Selling

Non paying bidder

man_cave_mayhem — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:55:42 GMT

Hi All,

Just wanted to share this.Someone put in a best offer I accepted,sent 3 invoices and an email reqesting payment,4 days heard nothing,so put a claim in for fees and relisted.Got a message from another bidder asking if it was too late to get it for Christmas (he's in WA I'm in Vic) I said well you may be lucky,but I really dont know,he's not going to take the chance,so I missed out on selling a $250 item before Christmas,all due to a NON PAYER.Thats the damage that can be done with people who are (Mainly) just playng games.

Have a great Christmas all.

Re: Non paying bidder

zelly888 — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:44:00 GMT

Welcome to the non payers club,a non payment of $250 will get you into this club but I must warn you that non payment of thousands of dollars within 12 months could possibly come your way if you proceed so be warned.

Re: Non paying bidder

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:12:57 GMT

express post?

Re: Non paying bidder

digital*ghost — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:39:08 GMT

I have a confession to make that might just ruin my credibility as a seller...at least as a sane one (if anyone actually believes me to be, anyway).

The other day, due to a lost package, I was running a couple of hours behind schedule on my orders. Most of my items are handmade, many require some assembly before sending, and sometimes I make them as they are ordered - the lost package, for which a replacement was preferred, is a bit over an hour's work, and I also had a couple of other things which were around a three-hour job all told.

Anyway, just as I was finishing up and getting everything ready to post, I got an item sold notification. Under normal circumstances, that's great, but I sold the last ready-made piece of this particular item last week and hadn't got around to making another one.

It was another hour+ job, doable, but my first thought when I saw that email:

Oh God.... please don't pay!

Funnily enough, they didn't until today. Phew!

(PS, Just in case, I thought I'd mention that I do understand how much frustration and other problems NPBs can cause, I'm not trying to make light of that, it's just that when I realised what my immediate reaction was, I found it kinda funny).

Re: Non paying bidder

phorum_junkie* — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:33:54 GMT

...at least as a sane one (if anyone actually believes me to be, anyway).

Do you think we are all mad?

Re: Non paying bidder

1sweetap6v8 — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 05:30:43 GMT

4sure ......and think . No not at all. Proven beyond any doubt what so ever.