Disappointed with buyer's honesty

110frankie

you were not stupid, you were being nice, friendly and helpful and someone took advantage of that.
This should not stop you from being nice and friendly again - but you do have to follow this one up with NPB, the threat of court action etc , for the sake of any other people they might try to take advantage of in the future.

OverlandLandy

cheets99 wrote:

Never trust anybody on eBay.

Thats a bit unfair is it not?

Im a eBay seller/buyer - 100% feedback and not had a problem (Yet). I communicate at all stages of the transaction and post the next day if atall possible. I would only ever send out once the money has cleared.
I have sold and bought items from 99p-£2500!

I guess you just need to treat it like a business - get the money, make sure it clears, then send the goods by a tracable method. Be VERY clear in your conditions of sale and be polite, but refuse to ship any items before payment clears. Make sure that your description is 100% accurate.

I guess there are cowboys in all areas of life......the trick is to avoid them!!!

greeneye

Neato wrote:

Try goofbay's feedback sniper
http://www.goofbay.com/sniper.html
That way they won't have time to retaliate

If this system is based around ebays perceived 90 day feedback policy I wouldn't bother if your intention is to avoid retalitory negs.
More often than not feedback can still be left long after the 90 days expires.

And as there does not seem to be a definitive set time limit for feedback I am surprised that Goofbay are claiming they can provide this service.

Also Ebay suspend Goofbay's access to their site whenever they do anything that Ebay don't like.
So I would suggest that the fact that ebay are letting Goofbay operate this tool confirms that this tool is not what it claims to be.

rose_sparky

I'm very pleased to say that I had payment this morning thanking me for my help and many apologies for their delay in paying.

OverlandLandy

I bet there was a big sigh of relief!


thank goodness you had the patince to wait B4 neging them.

BANANABUS

good to here
bet you wont do that again.
"would you go to tesco and get a packet of sweets and ask if yo ucan pay for them when you have eaten them?

Tahiti

rose_sparky wrote:

I'm very pleased to say that I had payment this morning thanking me for my help and many apologies for their delay in paying.

Excellent news! I was just reading through this post, about to say how nice you had been, and that not all Ebayers are ********, and you've just proven it for me!