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Seller requested my details after 24 hours and demanded payment...

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  • mobile48
    mobile48 Posts: 745 Forumite
    edited 15 January 2011 at 9:31PM
    Shops do not require you to pay immediately and go to the check out as soon as you pick something off the shelve. It is up to the buyer when they do it. Some are also happy to wait 3 days for payment and keep the goods for you.
  • suited-aces
    suited-aces Posts: 1,938 Forumite
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    And as the shop would give me the item immediately upon payment, you are using an unfair, one-sided example.
    I'm not bad at golf, I just get better value for money when I take more shots!
  • frivolous_fay
    frivolous_fay Posts: 13,302 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I bought something for a colleague who'd forgotten their account details. So I BINed and then waited while they got back to me with a delivery address.
    Also, I knew the card on my PP account had expired and I had to set up a new one.... not really something I wanted to do on the iphone so had to wait until I was at home with the PC.

    So shoot me... it was about 2 days between purchase and payment. They sent me the invoice a day after BIN, but I didn't begrudge them that.
    It was the weekend though...
    My TV is broken! :cry:
    Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j
  • suited-aces
    suited-aces Posts: 1,938 Forumite
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    How do you sleep at night fay?
    I'm not bad at golf, I just get better value for money when I take more shots!
  • flimsier
    flimsier Posts: 799 Forumite
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    I've got no sympathy for the seller - way OTT.

    Meanwhile, I think you're petty, and I'm glad you've never bought any items from me.
    Can we just take it as read I didn't mean to offend you?
  • frivolous_fay
    frivolous_fay Posts: 13,302 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    How do you sleep at night fay?

    I know, I'm an awful person.
    My TV is broken! :cry:
    Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j
  • ootie
    ootie Posts: 566 Forumite
    I bought something on BIN yesterday, something that I wanted that was at a decent price.

    Seller has in his terms that the buyer can pay in 7 days. That was one of the reasons I chose this seller above some others with a similar item.

    I am going to pay on Tuesday when money I have in my account has cleared.

    To me, I have "ordered" the item and I am keeping completely within the seller's conditions.

    Saying that though, I think nearly every other time I've used BIN, I've paid straight away.
  • lulu650 wrote: »
    I don't order my Tesco groceries and think I'll pay later when I've got some more time

    I think if they said you had four days to make payment it'd be different...
  • burnoutbabe
    burnoutbabe Posts: 1,338 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Maybe, it being a few weeks ago, it was over xmas and the seller wanted to get it out so it got to you before xmas? else it gets caught up in the bank holidays and takes ages to arrive, may be negged as THEY WANTED IT BY XMAS.
  • suited-aces
    suited-aces Posts: 1,938 Forumite
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    Seems from op to have been specifically after christmas
    I'm not bad at golf, I just get better value for money when I take more shots!
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