Ebay selling question

[revnja]

well, i wasn't recommending you sell it on this boards. i was simply sympathizing with you because the same happened to me. i know it sucks, badly. it's a total waste of time.

 

[RudeBoie]

Originally posted by: Muse
I sold an item on ebay almost 3 days ago and the buyer hasn't paid or answered my invoice email (sent through ebay). Tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM, it will have been 3 days. It was a cheap item, selling for under $20, but there was a lot of activity and sniping at the end, around 20 bids total. I expected the winner would probably pay me right away by Paypal, but didn't. I invoiced him after a few hours and have heard nothing.

What should I do if I'm not paid? The buyer has 100% positive feedback, but his feedback score is only 18. Should I send him another invoice now, wait until tomorrow morning or do something else?

That guy might be sending you a money order. I had someone with a perfect rating and respectable amount of total feedback do that to me. I accept PayPal and Money Order, but for MO's I always tell them to tell me if they're going to do that. This person didn't, and I was about to file my dispute form when I got the MO. I got it 7-9 days after the auction ended. And I never got 1 email from the winner.

I left neutral feedback.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
guess what, clueless: its a 3 day weekend

maybe the guy has a life and doesnt spend every minute at the computer?

Yeah, you have a point. But he won it on a Thursday (last) and he hasn't acknowledged my two invoices. It's been over 5 days now. I think he's had time. He's still bidding on and winning auctions. He won two yesterday. Most of his won items cost a lot more than mine. He's in the Bronx, NY and has registered his name as the name of a company. The phone number he gave Ebay is evidently a fax number. I looked up his company on Yahoo Yellow Pages and the number is no longer in service. He buys almost exclusively heavy duty contruction tools and the like. I guess I'll just wait the stipulated 7 days and go through the EBay NPB procedure. I wonder if there's any kosher way I can offer the item to one of the other bidders or if I have to wait. How long? I haven't seen anything on EBay to explain under just what circumstances you should or can make a "second chance offer" to one of the runners-up.

 

[Muse]

Yesterday it became 7 days since the auction ended and I'd still gotten no response from the buyer, who I'd invoiced twice. So, I filed a claim of nonpayment at EBay. Today, the buyer paid. I wonder what kind of feedback I should leave. Am I risking bad feedback if I dump on this guy (i.e. leave him negative or neutral feedback)?