Purchased large item that states collection only ! The cant collect

pinkladyof66 · 2 October 2012 at 4:15PM

Please i placed an ad for a bed clearly stating collection only and even gave area and postcode on listing. I had about 20 watchers on this buy it now item. Man goes in today and purchases it buy it now for the asking price. I email to ask when can you collect and he says oh I made a mistake I live in London !!!! which is about 130 miles from me. So no chance of collection.

He says in his email oh I dont know what to do I am new to this and therefore cannot commit to the purchase.

To enable me to relist etc and get my final fees back immediately I cancelled the transaction to which he agreed and had my fees returned, however thinking now I have to pay another insertion fee (through no fault of mine ) and also lost all my watchers.

Should I have waited the 7 days and reported as item not paid for (to which I spose he could have paid by paypal to try and complicate it further) I could then have left feedback and got my insertion fees covered.

Would you advised me to have done anything different ? Or is it a case of just have to put up with it.

Has anyone else had this happen to them !! Real pain for me !

Thanks:mad:

Taadaa · 2 October 2012 at 7:56PM

This has happened to me today, alonh with a load of other !!!! unfortunately (l didn't mean to bid twice, three NPBs and two SNAD, one my fault, one not but they will get their money back anyway, nothing l can do about it). I have requesfed a cancellation but they have ignored it. If l opened an NPB case they could have paid them INRd me so l didn't see the point. Add them to your blocked bidder list and move on.

skivenov · 2 October 2012 at 8:12PM

You can do a mutual cancellation, where you get your fees back pretty much as soon as the buyer agrees.

the-mango · 2 October 2012 at 8:59PM

were there not any other bids, as you had so many wtchers, tht you could do a second chance offer ot?

GamerInfo · 3 October 2012 at 12:19AM

the-mango wrote: »

were there not any other bids, as you had so many wtchers, tht you could do a second chance offer ot?

The op said the item was a BUT IT NOW - so no other bidders, therefore no second chance options......

pinkladyof66 wrote:

I had about 20 watchers on this buy it now item. Man goes in today and purchases it buy it now for the asking price.

jojo1964 · 3 October 2012 at 10:26AM

Slightly different, but i had a item listed with a BIN of £500 and starting bid of £350, large item stating collection only, got a message saying i will buy it for £350 but you must deliver it.