How long should i wait for payment of a garment

[madamgreatstuff]

Hi has anyone had to wait for a long time for payment  of goods?

[cq_tech]

I've always paid immediately and can see no valid reason for any buyer not to pay instantly upon purchase. If you don't have sufficient funds or can't afford to pay for an item straight away then you shouldn't be buying it IMO.

[i-love-my-sheep]

I pay immediately if I buy a BIN item and not planning on buying anything else from that seller. If I am bidding on auctions, I don't pay until I'm done buying. I usually let the seller know that I am still buying after I win the first item.

[cq_tech]

I was just about to say that I never bid on auctions, but in fact I made my first auction purchase in seven years only last Sunday and by midday Monday I had the item in my hot little hands and had already paid the seller cash for it. Even Paypal wouldn't have been that fast! 🙂

[lyndal1838]

Dunno about that CQ.

I made an offer on an item late one afternoon which was accepted.  It was supposedly in suburban Sydney but the listing had all the hallmarks of a Chinese seller.  I paid and settled back to wait for the item to arrive from China.

I was more than pleasantly surprised when it arrived at 6.30am the next morning with my AP contractor.

Needless to say the seller has a loyal repeat buyer.

[cq_tech]

Jeez Lyndal, that's more the exception that the rule! He must have managed to post it before the 6:30pm mailbox pickup (or got it to the PO before 5:00pm) and even then, unless he lived in the same general area, it would have had to go to the distribution centre first.

And what sort of AP contractor delivers mail at 6:30am anyway? My bloke never turns up here before around 2:00pm, and that's if I'm really lucky. One night he didn't turn up until well after dark. In fact, it was so late he was lucky I even opened the door to him. 🙂

[i-love-my-sheep]

I'm not far from the mail centre and have had a few items dropped off before 7am.....or if sig required, a card left in the door to collect from the PO or courier company later that day.

I think my quickest transaction was, auction finished at 2.30pm, noticed the seller appeared to be in the same area (just said Central West NSW, as opposed to a town name), sent him a message to verify exact location and asked if he was local could I pick up. I picked up at 4.30pm. Turns out he was literally around the corner. He was about 8 houses away from me. Took me 5 minutes to walk there! The chat on the front door step lasted longer than what it took me to walk there and walk home again.