Buyer no longer want to sell because I took too long to collect.

Avoriaz

pgilc1 wrote:

So almost a month down the line the seller decides enough is enough and its HIS fault? …If a buyer took a month to pay you, would you not have raise a NPB claim long ago?

Ebay rules state an item must be paid for with 1 week of auction end. I'm surprised he has negged the OP long before now.

pgilc1 wrote:

looking at it from a sellers perspective, you DID take too long to collect it!

You bought the item on 16th Jan, this is now nearly mid feb. you are supposed to have the item paid for inside a week. Maybe the seller wasnt particularly accomodating with your collection times, but for £3.71 neither would i.

i'd have filed an unpaid item dispute against you long before now....

You are both missing the point.

Payment by cash on collection was agreed. Cash saves him Paypal fees and me p&p costs and risks. I can’t pay until a time to collect is agreed. I have offered to pay via Paypal and include p&p but this was declined.

I have been in regular telephone contact to try and arrange collection from the seller’s appointed “agent”, his father.

The seller knows my name, address, telephone number, mobile number, email id, ebay id. He probably even knows my inside leg measurement. He has not sent me a single email or tried to contact me by telephone.

I told him I could collect at weekends. His father has yet to agree a convenient weekend. He always says he is working or out and no one else is at home.

What else could I have done?

tomstickland

So almost a month down the line the seller decides enough is enough and its HIS fault?

If a buyer took a month to pay you, would you not have raise a NPB claim long ago?

If I was the seller I'd have sent a few emails asking for some progress.
I've had people take a month to pay me in the past.

impy78

Avoriaz wrote:

I told him I could collect at weekends. His father has yet to agree a convenient weekend. He always says he is working or out and no one else is at home.

What else could I have done?

Try and arrange a time other than the weekend when his father is working?

smartie1976

I think people need to stopping jumping on the OP.
It does sound like they've tried on several occasions to collect this item and we should not be lambasting the OP for "non-payment".

Depending on how far away the item was to pick up, I would have dropped round out of the blue one day, because it sounds like the father is fobbing you off because the seller knows the item has gone for peanuts and is unhappy.
And should the Seller start any disputes, there's still the "I still want the item" option.

kriss_boy

I agree with the seller.

Hes a student, selling things during his exam/xmas leave. He sells something for a really trivial amount and the winner wants to collect it. Which is a bit of hassle for £3.71.

Surely the fundamental requirement for YOUR request to collect.. is to actually collect the item based on the SELLERS terms.

Instead you cannot meet those terms and the sellers gone off to uni.

Jeez dont bid on any of my items. People have better things to do than wait at home to save people like you £1 on postage on things that cost £3.71.

I think your bein unreasonable.

smartie1976

kriss_boy wrote:

Instead you cannot meet those terms and the sellers gone off to uni.

Avoriaz wrote:

On 16th Jan I bought a guitar tuner for £3.71 from a local seller. Cash on collection was agreed. However he informed me I would have to collect from his father as he was returning to university.

He never even got the chance to collect from the guy as he went straight back to Uni.
The seller broke his own T&Cs by being unavailable to supply the item himself.

kriss_boy

smartie1976 wrote:

He never even got the chance to collect from the guy as he went straight back to Uni.
The seller broke his own T&Cs by being unavailable to supply the item himself.

The OP just said "cash on collection was agreed" which insinuates it wasnt originally an option in the listing.

The bottom line is the buyer wanted to save, what, £1 postage. Jeez Im so sick of ebay for these very reasons. Give the freakin student a break. Do you not think he and his dad have better things to do that sit in a house and wait in on some buyer collecting an item which costs £3.71.

He agreed to cash on collection but the buyer couldnt come over when the father was at home. simple as that.

For £3.71 wouldnt you just lose interest and give up?

And now the buyer has the cheek to think the seller is being unreasonable. If I won something locally that cheapI wouldnt have the cheek to actually want to turn up on their door with £2 or something. People have better things to do than wait in on buyers for tedious amounts of money.

missile

.......... and come on here whinging about it, OP is a time waster IMHO

Avoriaz

P&P was £3.50, not £1.

I refuse to pay excessive p&p charges and I only bid on the basis of being allowed to collect. £3.71 is a good price for the item. £7.21 is not.

Collection at a weekend was agreed before I bid. I offered to pay cash to save his PayPal
fees as these would be a large proportion of £3.71.

The seller was recently registered with only about 6 feedbacks when he listed the item. I prefer to pay cash on collection with newbies with low feedback. It saves all those “items lost in post” and sudden NARUs that often happen and are frequently discussed on here.

The seller can’t complain that it is a trivial amount of money. The item costs about £10 new so he was never going to make his fortune out of it. If he can’t be bothered for a trivial amount of money he should have donated it to a charity shop and not listed it on ebay.

As I wrote in my OP, which some of you appear not to have read….

…“It is the principle, not the actual item that irritates me, …….

......Why do the problems always happen on the trivial and inexpensive items? I have bought and sold many items for £100 or more with zero problems.”

If I’m a time waster, how have I managed to keep 100% feedback on 248 trades?

Though talking about time wasting, how many man hours have now been spent writing and reading about a £3.71 item.

Such is life

debt23

Hi Avoriaz,

I dont think you have done much wrong, and the seller is a bit of a muppet, but I really wouldnt get too bothered about it.

Life is far too short to worry about this.

Let it go and heres to better deals!

All the best

Debt23