Interim Payments from multiple item buyers

edsjad

Hi there - I have three buyers at the moment who have bid for and won 4, 14 and 8 items over the past few days. They all have more bids in and two out of the three are from USA and Japan and all want to wait until they have won more bids to save on postage before I post. These three have bought all but 4 of the items I have sold over the last week in total and it looks like I will have another week before they will be ready to pay as they are bidding on things that won't be finished for another week. SO - the problem - I am broke and need some money quite soon - it takes a week to transfer to my account and all togehter so far these bids/wins amount to approx £140. I trust the three buyers - two of them bought from me before and the other one has good feedback and I don't want to upset them or seem pushy or impatient. But I wondered aboiut asking for an interim payment - not because i don't trust them but because I need the money. What do you think of this? Is there any wording that you might use that would not offend anyone? Or would you just forget it and try and last financially for another two weeks? Any ideas or advice? Has anyone else been in this situation?

Also, I just want to say, that i consider myself very fortunate to have reached this quite sudden popularity with three bidders - I have not been in a situation before when 3 people have taken up very nearly all my sales.

samanthaknd

hmm I am really not sure about that. But I suppose you could ask as the worse they could say is no. As for wording I would tell it like you are telling us, maybe work for you. I know this isnt on topic but once i emailed a seller who was selling some items and i asked if i could BIN them but cant pay until the Friday (payday) (this was on the monday) I was told sure go ahead did it and the package arrived on the wednesday without me paying. I was so happy with it i paid £1 extra. so there are obviously people out there that will help you out in time of need, and the way i see it is they have already bid or bought these items anyway so it is only fair they pay for them in a reasonable amount of time.