Buyer claims item not received

techspec

pulliptears wrote: »

So he wasn't lying or dishonest. Just a worried buyer trying to finish his Christmas shopping.

I think you owe your buyer an apology, you've slated him here, said you didn't want to make life easy for him and accused him of getting a freebie.

Yet even though you sent the item untracked and he could have lied he's told you the item has come thus saving you £80.

I do hope you feel some pang of guilt and have perhaps learned not to judge so harshly next time.

Are you having a laugh - it it wasn't for the buyers impatience, at the busiest time of the year - no correspondence would have been needed and the seller would not have had to waste time on here.

techspec

macfly wrote: »

Have you got any evidence for either of these wild allegations?
How the france would a postman know the value?

Erm common sense - something heavy in a big box in not going to be a pencil sharpener.

And yes - experience - over 40% of items i have posted this way , never arrived.

pulliptears

techspec wrote: »

Are you having a laugh - it it wasn't for the buyers impatience, at the busiest time of the year - no correspondence would have been needed and the seller would not have had to waste time on here.

Not at all, seller was quick enough to call buyer a scammer and happy to make life awkward for them, but when it transpires they weren't out to rob her afte rall.......well.

pulliptears

techspec wrote: »

Erm common sense - something heavy in a big box in not going to be a pencil sharpener.

And yes - experience - over 40% of items i have posted this way , never arrived.

Yep, could be a £5 toaster. Size doesn't equate value now does it?
:rotfl::rotfl:

soolin

techspec wrote: »

Erm common sense - something heavy in a big box in not going to be a pencil sharpener.

And yes - experience - over 40% of items i have posted this way , never arrived.

I Used to sell a great deal of large heavy glass and china, all virtually worthless , a few pounds at most and all going uninsured via standard parcel.

I gave up when I decided I couldn't be bothered to spend 20 minutes packing something that was only giving me a net profit of a couple of pounds.

I can't believe many people would do as Op has done and sent an item of value by standard parcel.

macfly

techspec wrote: »

Erm common sense - something heavy in a big box in not going to be a pencil sharpener.

So a postman is going to nick it? A bit slanderous mate.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

So on one hand we mustn't dare suggest the buyer has stolen the parcel and on the other can't say the same about the postal workers either. So just where the bloomin' hell do all my clearly addressed, well packed, clearly sealed shut parcels keeping going then?

macfly wrote: »

So a postman is going to nick it? A bit slanderous mate.

It's impossible to commit the act slander on this forum, or indeed any other.

plumface

pulliptears wrote: »

Yep, could be a £5 toaster. Size doesn't equate value now does it?
:rotfl::rotfl:

No,but human nature is 'BIGGER IS BETTER'
Bigger house,bigger car etc........why doesn't someone want my 'bigger wife?'

Old_Git

sellers assume buyers are chancing it when they say an item hasnt arrived . In 2011 I bought a ladies suit .I was suspicious off the buyer from the start .Two minutes after the sale closed I was offered a second chance offer and it was a new seller .I paid ,no suit arrived I opened a dispute seller said they could see suit had arrive (bluff ) but they had to refund.
A month later the suit arrived and by that time the seller had closed their account. I did manage to pay again via paypal.

This week I bought a pair off shoes from clarks .
I put on the deliver details "put in shed " .
Yesterday I arrived home to find a card "parcel in shed ".
I went to the shed and nothing there ,I am thinking !!!!!! is going on here .They had been put in the coal bunker ..

macfly

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head wrote: »

So on one hand we mustn't dare suggest the buyer has stolen the parcel and on the other can't say the same about the postal workers either. So just where the bloomin' hell do all my clearly addressed, well packed, clearly sealed shut parcels keeping going then?



It's impossible to commit the act slander on this forum, or indeed any other.

Fortunate. It's a bit different to make accusations against a whole and specific group of workers. Of course, some are bound to be dodgy. But try to keep some sort of perspective. Your parcels may have been abducted by aliens.