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A few months ago I sold a project street bike to a guy. He paid all of it but 25 bucks and said he would pay me in a week. Fast forward to now, about 3 months later and he has yet to pay me or pick up the bike from my house. About a month ago I told him I was going to start charging 10/week to keep it at my house, thinking that would get him to finally come get it and finish the deal. Every week since then I have messaged him saying another week another 10 bucks and he would respond with some excuse about being out of town. This week he didn't respond. There is no title on the bike and he is up to owing me 25 plus 40 in storage fees.


At what point to I give up trying to get this guy to get the bike?
 
It's been 3 months. I'd mail him a letter stating if he doesn't pick up his bike by X date and pay you in full, you are going to sell it to someone else.
 
Give him a deadline and a fair warning. Then sell the stuff. How much of an inconvenience is it for you to store the stuff for him and how much is it worth?
 
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Give him a deadline and a fair warning. Then sell the stuff. How much of an inconvenience is it for you to store the stuff for him and how much is it worth?
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Whether he has the room or not is irrelevant. The guy owes money to the OP and is using up OPs space.

But I do agree with the giving him a dealine/warning. If you have his address, send him a certified letter giving him X # of days to pick it up and that he still owes you $25, and failure to pay/pick it up will result in you keeping the bike and the money which was used to store the item.
 
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Whether he has the room or not is irrelevant. The guy owes money to the OP and is using up OPs space.

But I do agree with the giving him a dealine/warning. If you have his address, send him a certified letter giving him X # of days to pick it up and that he still owes you $25, and failure to pay/pick it up will result in you keeping the bike and the money which was used to store the item.
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I agree to re-sell the bike, but if it were me I would hold some money to partially refund the first buyer. I am assuming you already spent the $300 he gave you.

Re-sell the bike, set aside what he gave you (minus storage and inconvenience fees), and give it back whenever he does show up. You still get your full price for the bike plus some extra for your troubles, and this guy gets most of his money back.

If I'm walking back to my vehicle holding most of my money I'm far less likely to return at 4am to toss a gasoline bomb through the window than if you told me you're keeping all my money and to get the fuck off your porch.
 
Give him notice. Set a deadline. Tell him you will refund his money minus any money you loose in the deal (ie: keep $50 if you sell it for $250) and you will also subtract the storage fees due at the time you sell it.
 
Let him know you're going to sell it to someone else. If he picks it up before that happens, great, if not let him know he can come pick up his refund if he wants.

I don't think you can/should charge storage fees. He never picked it up or paid in full, completing the transaction, so the bike is still yours.
 
i would cancel the deal now and charge a 15% restocking fee, ie refund the money he paid you minus 15%
but i wouldn't go out of my way to give the money back, i'd set it aside in an envelope (or if it is more money than you'd normally keep in your house, a bank account) and just move on , forget about it until he shows up then give him his money back (minus the restocking fee)
 
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These messages are from my google voice over the past month and a half or so

The first line is reference to some of his friends that were supposedly going to pick it up and give me my 25, way after we made our original deal
 
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This reminds me so much of a situation I went through when I sold some golf clubs.

I played a round with a guy, and he liked my clubs and asked if he could buy them. I was moving the extra $ seemed like a good deal so I agreed. So the guy gave me the money and said he'd pick them up later, but he never showed. That was early November and by mid-December I was moving away. I tried so hard to get a hold of him before I left, but he never acknowledged any attempt I made to contact him so I stuffed them in my already overloaded car and drove out of town.

FF about two months - I get an e-mail from him demanding "his" clubs. What a fucking dickhead! I'm still getting pissed right now typing this even though this happened years ago. I was nice and kept my cool somehow: I offered to meet him half-way and give him the clubs personally (technically not exactly half way; his drive would have been 2 1/2 hours, mine would have been one hour).

No response.

FF another month or two: that shitstick is spreading lies all over the place I used to live, telling people that I ripped him off, stole from him! By now the story had been embellished to the level of fraud on my part. This time I didn't keep my cool: I got his latest e-mail and phone # and left messages telling that him if I ever heard anything about me stealing his money again I'd come and sort it out in person, one club at a time. And yet I still offered to ship them down, on my dime just to never be reminded of this crap again.

You guessed it: again no response.

I still have those mother fucking clubs in my garage.
 
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