Buyer has item but won't pay.

[jbd73]

I stupidly sent off the item before the buyer had payed.

Now I've had to start an unpayed item case. If the buyer still refuses to pay, how's it going to pan out? Will I lose the item and my money ($455.00)?

[i-once-was-bump]

I had a debt collection agency come knocking on my door over an unpaid doctor's bill and when I exploded they said they had bought the debt from the doctor and did so on a regular basis.

Only problem was I had a bill for a different amoung and a receipt for the payment.

The person next alphabetically owed the amount sold to the debt collection agency.

Only the threat of being tied to a chair (by my friend) stopped me from paying a visit to that doctor on the day I receive my visit from the goons.

(Friend was a bit worried I might embarrass him, what with him being a solicitor and all that)

[lyndal1838]

Good one Bump.

I have had a few run ins with collection agencies in my day but my favourite was way back when Myer and Grace Brothers both had their own store cards and were both trading in Sydney.  When they became the same store and trading as Myer I arranged to surrender my GB's card and keep the Myer one.  The balance was transferred from the GBs card to the Myer card and everyone was happy, except that someone forgot to tell the finance arm of the organisation that the interest free transactions were now being paid through the Myer card.

They took some convincing that I was not absconding and were very dubious even when I showed them the final GBs statement where the balance was transferred to the Myer card.  They just could not/would not grasp that it was the same store now.  They were sure I was pulling some sort of swifty.