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Re: Proportion of bad bidders on eBay?
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:24:19 GMT
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> Transatlantic shipping may be part of the issue.
I'm not sure what the problems is. I'd say about 1 in 20 - 30 never pay. I'm
not sure why this is. Normally is is for low value items - the cost of the
MO and shipping may out way the actual value of the item.
On a related note, this was in my inbox this morning:
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"I have sent you payment on Feb. 16, 2000. This was 8 days ago. I now inform
you that if I do not receive shipment from you within 15 days I will go to
ebay and label you a dead beat seller.
Consdier this, I seriously doubt I will ever use ebay again.
I will issue no further warnings."
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Notes:
1. They payment made it to me yesterday - a MO, with a BLANK payee section!
2. Airmail shipping to the UK can take up to 10 days (but usually < 5 days),
and I would have stated this on my 1st mail to him - I'll check the post
mark on this one tonight to see when it was sent to me.
3. The auction actually ended on Feb 02 - TWO WEEKS before he mailed his
payment. He did not respend to my e-mails until I had filed with ebay for a
"Final Value Fee Credit Request"
(http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/finalfee.html).
4. His feedback rating is zero.
Scott A
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> I had one bidder whinge about fixed shipping charges being too high, and
> some other misc whinges from other bidders lead me to believe that there
> is a non zero fraction of bidders that don't read the listings very
> carefully.
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> Bidders like that may well be more likely to renege on someone across
> the pond after they realise what the shipping is going to be.
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> So far I have a pretty good record of completions, no deal has gone 100%
> sour yet.
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> --
> Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
> http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
> fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
>
> Note: this is a family forum!
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