No reply from buyer, what should I do?

Mookfish

I put my car on eBay and the auctioin finished on sunday now its been three days and I have had no responce from the buyer. I put in the listing that it needed to be colected within seven days, as it is only taxed untill the end of the month and it is stored on the road.

What realy worries me is that I used goofbay to see what else this person had bid on, and he has bid on and won another car after winning mine.

So it looks like he won't pay up, but I will have to retax the car if I have to wait untill sunday to file a NPB.

What should I do?

Sugar_Coated_Owl

All you can do is wait until 7 days are up and then file a NPB to reclaim your FVF.

Mookfish

If I just got on with it and relisted the car straight away would there be any potential problems?

pug_in_a_bed

Why not pull their details and give them a ring, then you'll know where you stand straight away and can get on with reselling if that's becessary.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

eBay allow a buyer 7 days in which to complete the transaction, only then can an unpaid item dispute be initiated.

If you were to re-list the car and then the original buyer contacts you to arrange picking it up it could cause a few problems. You don't want to end up selling one car to two different people.

If you're really worried why not request his contact details (telephone number) from eBay and give the buyer a call.

Does the buyer have a good feedback rating?

Mookfish

pug_in_a_bed wrote:

Why not pull their details and give them a ring, then you'll know where you stand straight away and can get on with reselling if that's becessary.

Thanks for the advice, just tried to do that and all I got was "you have dialed an incorrect number". It was a mobile number.

Mookfish

His feedback is 40 with one negative, which is in another language. He did ask 2 questions after he bid. The car has a problem with the gearbox and he was asking if it would be okay to drive it home on the motorway.

Sinope_2

Dont worry, its a faf but you can always get your money back from ebay once its been put into dispute.

The only annoying thing is waiting the week knowing full well they arent going to pay.

You can go to the next highest bidder and sell to them if you want but i never do.

Mookfish

Sinope wrote:

You can go to the next highest bidder and sell to them if you want but i never do.

Would I be able to do this straight away, or do I still have to wait the seven days? I'd guess I still have to wait but can you confirm this please?

Sugar_Coated_Owl

Yes you still need to wait.

Mookfish

I'm new to selling on eBay, although I have bought quite a bit of stuff including the car I'm now selling(hopefully). Why did it have to be the car that got a non payer, I wouldn't have been too bothered about waiting the seven days to relist/second chance the other stuff, its just with the car it needs to be sold or taxed by the 31st.