Seller appears on doorstep...

skitler

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Indeed. Although them erasers are always really useless. Don't know about you but I've never found a pencil with a good eraser on

The clever clogs remark.

I don't make mistakes as I am a clever clogs:rotfl:

Flyonthewall

skitler wrote: »

I don't make mistakes as I am a clever clogs:rotfl:

Then you might want to explain all the weather in previous posts

skitler

RHemmings wrote: »

Because the OP didn't want them to, and asked them not to. QED. People are allowed to say whom they welcome to their house, and who they don't. And if you turn up when you've been asked not to, then you're in the wrong.

There is no hidden agenda or hidden details, and no further explanation is necessary.

op was to be out


op was in


op opened here door thus accepting the caller


op started the debate with caller (folk are referring to caller as sellers husband, this has not been con firmed)


op riled the caller who promptly retreated


op didn't feel threatened


op accepts other callers without question


op is not disclosing all relevant facts


speculation is rife in this thread due to lack of info from op

skitler

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Then you might want to explain all the weather in previous posts

its a storm in a tea cup, just like this thread

Flyonthewall

skitler wrote: »

op started the debate with caller (folk are referring to caller as sellers husband, this has not been con firmed)

Arlandria606 wrote: »

The seller contacted me yesterday to ask if her husband could drop off the item

First post. Does that not confirm that it was the sellers husband? It seems unlikely the seller would ask that then send some random guy, although I suppose you never know. Still it's pretty safe to assume it was the husband.

skitler wrote: »

op opened here door thus accepting the caller

Opening a door and not knowing who is there doesn't mean you accepting them, it means you want to know who they are and why they're at your door. Opening it is the way to find out. Even if you want to class it as accepting them that doesn't mean they have to be happy about it.

op riled the caller who promptly retreated

They stated they weren't expecting them, caller got angry and left. OP did nothing to cause that except express surprise that the caller was there.

op didn't feel threatened

No, but there were threats made by caller. Not violent ones, but still threats and therefore not good customer service.

op accepts other callers without question

Nothing to say they accept all callers. Either way they have a right to say no to whoever they wish.

op is not disclosing all relevant facts

Far as I and some others are concerned, we have the facts we need. Only you who still seems to want more information.

Flyonthewall

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I think the seller was silly to do this because then buyer could claim non receipt but that's another matter.

Anyway, yes, the man shouldn't have turned up but it was a one-off. He did the wrong thing but what did making an issue of it achieve?

You're never going to meet him again in your entire life. What was the sense in making a drama out of it and provoking ill-feeling?

Now you're left quaking in your boots with paranoia when you could have just said thanks and shut the door.

They didn't make an issue out of it, they said one little thing in surprise at him being there. The only drama has been on this forum, unless you count the guy getting angry and yelling but there was no need for that.

The OP just wanted a bit of advice because the situation didn't turn out how they expected and they weren't sure how to deal with that.

Instead they've a thread of rude replies, people trying to get more information out of them, many people assuming things, many people not understanding and no one giving advice.

arbroath_lass

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Postage is for posting things, not getting your husband to pass it to you on his way by.

Postage is for Royal Mail or courier, why pay postage for someone to give it to their husband? That doesn't cost them anything.

But on the item page on ebay it says delivery. The further details mentions postage and packaging - I don't think there's an option to remove that.


What kind of car do you have that is free to run?

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Why should he be able to reclaim costs when it was his choice to be going down that way in the first place? OP never asked for that, they paid postage expecting it to be posted to a company and delivered to them. They didn't get that service.

As I said they paid for delivery and got a quicker service than expected - surely a bonus! I really don't get what you think the difference is? Couriers could be anybody. They are no more or less trustworthy than the rest of us (including whoever delivered the item). They don't ask or need to come into the house. There are some people on here who have a strange (I'd say irrational, in general) fear of people they don't know. We were all strangers to our friends at some point.

techspec

Last year i was on holiday and a bidder happened to be on the same road as my holiday park.

I had the item in my car in case anyone bought it.

I was going to drop it off, as i passed it every day to get to the town. That's exactly what i would have done a few years ago, without problem, or being scammed for INR. But Ebay being what it is now - i drove passed the house - and another mile on top - and posted it at a cost of £5. I would have preferred to have offered the buyer that back.

The post office woman said are you mad - its only on the road. I said i know - but Ebay buyers can be a bunch of weirdo's at times - and i darn't knock on the door in case i get one of them.

And this thread shows i was right to just post the thing and move on.

Flyonthewall

arbroath_lass wrote: »

But on the item page on ebay it says delivery. The further details mentions postage and packaging - I don't think there's an option to remove that.


What kind of car do you have that is free to run?

The listing didn't state anywhere about hand delivering. If it's not an option to hand deliver then perhaps sellers should think twice about doing it. Things can go wrong for them.

It didn't cost the seller any extra to get the item to the buyer, he was passing by anyway and therefore would have been spending the same amount even without going to see the buyer. It was the sellers choice to hand deliver it, why should the buyer pay his fuel costs? The buyer isn't there to make the sellers trip cheaper for them.

They paid postage costs, they wanted it posted, it should have been posted.

As I said they paid for delivery and got a quicker service than expected - surely a bonus! I really don't get what you think the difference is? Couriers could be anybody. They are no more or less trustworthy than the rest of us (including whoever delivered the item). They don't ask or need to come into the house. There are some people on here who have a strange (I'd say irrational, in general) fear of people they don't know. We were all strangers to our friends at some point.

It's only a bonus if you want that and the OP didn't. They wanted the postage service stated, that they paid for, that they expected, that they agreed to and that they informed the seller they wanted.

Why is that so hard for people to understand? What's wrong with wanting the service you should be getting and were expecting?

Dovah_diva

Arlandria606 wrote: »

Given how quickly the husband got angry, I now can't help but worry that these people have my address, and are clearly prepared to misuse that information.

Explain that one to me, please. I can understand you are annoyed that the delivered when you said not to, but how do you jump from that to the frankly insulting 'these people have my address, and are clearly prepared to misuse that information'?