Lots of unhappy campers...

[performance_parts_clearance_centre]

One of the staff at my place of employ was just chasing up debtors who've strayed a few days outside their payment window, and got a recorded message from one saying that the business had gone into receivership!

I just checked online - their website is gone; the link redirects to their eBay store ("seller away until Dec 31st") which no longer has any items listed. He had huge feedback (97984), but there's a growing amount of negs and neutrals from buyers who've not received either their goods or a refund:

[lyndal1838]

Let's hope the buyers know how to make a claim to get their money back.

It is poor form on the receivers part not to put a notice on the website so people know what is going on.

[kopenhagen5]

Oh dear.

Hope the outstanding is not a large amount.

One of our customers went under but they would also supply a part for the product we manufacture for them so before receivers were appointed we quickly went around and spoke to one of the regular workers we deal with and said we just need to collect the 2 pallets of these parts.

We also managed to get the tooling worth 10,000 plus.

We still lost but not so much in the end.

A division of Ford ended up buying them.

[go-tazz]

Here's another one:

The most productive period for sellers/scammers that sell items and don't deliver is now on,(mid November till

January will see a higher number of sellers/scammers fall into that category),

[performance_parts_clearance_centre]

The fellow in question had been a regular customer for over a decade, and a fairly high volume one at that. He cooled off a bit over the last two years, but was still buying on a regular basis. Then, bam - gone. As is $3k worth of our goods. 

@kopenhagen5 - We were a supplier for most of the car companies, too - all sorts of wonderful stories to be told... Happily, we were heavily into aftermarket as well, so the gradual scaling back and closure of local manufacturing doesn't harm us all that much.

[designers*n*more]

for businesses trading on eBay etc there should be some type of notification given directly to eBay once they go into receivership. At least that way eBay could suspend their account.

[lyndal1838]

Ebay should not need to suspend their account if they are in liquidation.

If they are still trading then the delivery of the goods is the responsibility of the liquidators who are administering the business.

If they are not trading (as in, there is nothing for sale on the site) then the liquidators should have a notification on the site telling creditors who to contact.

[springyzone]

Can't help noticing one of their neg feedbacks!

"The BEST. Great service and honest. I would recommend them to anyone."

I hope all the unhappy buyers paid by paypal & put in a claim, not just neg feedback.

Sorry to hear you may lose out.

[lane-ends]

Always sad when someone goes under leaving a back log of creditors. Its not necessairly malice or sinister just the unfortunate consequnce of an extensive business failing leaving transactions uncompleted, which can happen to anyone.