Buyer threatening to take me to court

eeeeeee

sounds like hes picking on ebay newbies and black mailing them too me ; He is definately trying too scare the out of you ; i think that you have already had wise words told too you about this buyer ; you would do well too speak too ebay again ; was the item he was buying bought too sell on then ? make sure you save ALL of his messages just in case ; check his id out on goofbay and see if you can find similar sellers who have also had this experience ... if all else fails tell ebay too shut your account ; see your pms have emailed you

Crowqueen

karltin wrote: »

To update, I have refunded the buyer his money. And now he wants the chat transcript containing suggestions of ebay to contact him to make an arrangement for a refund. And also he shall be filing for breach of contract for "serious consequential loss he has suffered as a result". Should I be worried about this? Is a court case going to materialize and has he "suffered serious consequential loss"? I assume it would be a different matter if the amount was significant, after all it was only £30.

I wouldn't think that he would go to court - he would have to prove that loss, and for £30 I'm not sure how it would work out, whether or not it would be seen as frivolous - but there is a facility through eBay to report you as a non-performing seller, which I'd personally do in this situation. I probably would have paid before now, but if a seller was badgering me, then suddenly refused to sell to me, I'd hit you with all I could through eBay.

If you plan to sell again, try and rework your attitude towards payment and perhaps gear things a bit better regarding postage if the reason you wanted immediate payment was that you could only post one day a week. Flexibility is the key and you need to learn a bit from this as you can't keep moving on every time you have an issue with someone.

Crowqueen

eeeeeee wrote: »

sounds like hes picking on ebay newbies and black mailing them too me ; He is definately trying too scare the out of you ; i think that you have already had wise words told too you about this buyer ; you would do well too speak too ebay again ; was the item he was buying bought too sell on then ? make sure you save ALL of his messages just in case ; check his id out on goofbay and see if you can find similar sellers who have also had this experience ... if all else fails tell ebay too shut your account ; see your pms have emailed you

Really? I think he just wants his item. He did pay, after all.

Dave101t

oh come on, this is nothing, a whiner on ebay, after his 1st sentence 'ill pay when i can be bothered.' is a breach of rules, take him to court!
people seem to have a phobia about threats of court action, ANYONE can threaten anything at anytime.

eeeeeee

exactly dave 101t ; he was threatening right from the start ... regardless and by his wording hes done this before

GregtheHammer

Crowqueen wrote: »

Really? I think he just wants his item. He did pay, after all.

Maybe so, but I do think he is being a complete c*ck into the bargain. the amount of people whom you hear to threaten legal/court action without substance. Some growing up is needed metinks