How patient are you with non paying buyers?

tomstickland

Ah right - I've left neg for non paying bidders and they never left me negs.

soolin

tomstickland wrote:

Ah right - I've left neg for non paying bidders and they never left me negs.

A lot won't, I have left negs for nPBs without any in return but you just need one to leave you a retaliatory one and that's it.

I've got one at the moment, didn't pay me but i'm not leaving a neg yet as two other sellers have left her a neg and she just left one straight back in return. I had hoped she would have been kicked off by now, but I can only assume the other sellers haven't all gone through the NPB process and put a strike on her account.

Looking at her buying history she bought about 11 things at the same time, and has not received a single positive feedback for any of them, so it looks like a bad one.

Soo

tomstickland

but you just need one to leave you a retaliatory one and that's it.

That's what?

Update on buyer: nephew phoned me today and is collecting next week. Might be OK after all.

tomstickland

UPDATE: buyer finally collected on Saturday. Great sense of acheivement there. LOL.
I left neutral feedback saying that it took 6 weeks for payment.
I've got another now, let me commence the ever more frequent phone calls.

cookiemonster25

sold some curtains to a woman who paid quickly by cheque cleared into my account so sent curtains then the cheque was withdran by her bank..GGGrrr
sent 2 reminder emails explainng the situation...heard nothing for 10 days she then said so sorry will send payment first thing mon...still nothing arrived so left neg feedback sat am just as the postie arrived with her payment!!!!!oops any way had a snotty email tonight saying she was appaulaed i was going to contact her employer (this is her registered address for deliveries) and seek furthur advice from the police (i think this is the only reason she paid) anyway all in all waited a month in total...wont wait that long again only to have a snotty buyer tell me off!!!!

beachbeth

Zackeriney wrote:

if you want to leave neg feedback and they havnt left any for you yet yoou can work out when the feedback period ends ( you got to leave feedback within 90 days) and on the 89th day very late at night leave them neg

Remember, its not a case of leaving the neg as late as possible on the 89th day. It all depends what time your listing ended. If it ended at 5.00pm then you have got until 5.00pm ninety days later to leave your feedback and NOT at midnight!

beachbeth

Searcher wrote:

Lmao me either I'd have hit him with a NPB after 7 days :rudolf:

Me too! I am absolutely sick of NPB! I have loads of them and I don't sell that much stuff. I sold a Christmas dvd over a week ago and haven't received payment. I contacted him and he said he was having trouble with Paypal, so I suggested he pay by postal order or cheque instead but he hasn't contacted me since. Ive started the NPB process but now have to wait another week before Ebay give me my fees back and let me relist the item by which time Christmas is over and no one is likely to want the dvd!

Ive relisted the item anyway and paid the fees to do so but this is so annoying. Why do they bid if they don't want the item? It really wastes your time!

me4bargains

soolin wrote:

The new rules only come into effect if the buyer does not particiapte in the NPB process, so a buyer can still work the system by responding to the dispute saying they are too ill to pay, or whatever and that might be enough to get their feedback to stand.

Soo

Ohh, I never thought of that. Ebay need to change it so if the buyer gets an unpaid strike then they can't leave feedback.

black-saturn

Mine get a friendly email after about 5 days asking if they still want the item. Then they get a NPB alert after 7 days. I dont close the NPB alert until payment has cleared.

soolin

me4bargains wrote:

Ohh, I never thought of that. Ebay need to change it so if the buyer gets an unpaid strike then they can't leave feedback.

Giving sellers that much power wouldn't work. Imagine a seller that only accepts cheques or BACs transfers (paypal is traceable by ebay so scam wouldn't work), takes your money, doesn't send your goods and then files for NPB on you and you can't even leave feedback in return!

Soo