posted on December 26, 2000 01:49:57 PM new
On another thread someone commented that they were getting lots of deadbeats. This is the worst problem I've had with this so far this yeear.How are other sellers doing? Do you think ebay's new PR blitz will bring in more deadbeats?
posted on December 26, 2000 01:53:36 PM new
Knock on wood, I have only had 3 deadbeats since I started selling in June. I hope it stays that way. All 3 items sold for more money the next time around.
posted on December 29, 2000 12:19:14 PM new
I've NEVER had so many deadbeats in such a short period of time! In December alone I had 3. Hope this trend does not continue!
posted on December 29, 2000 12:50:46 PM new
Yes, I'm getting lots of deadbeats and the Buy It Now people haven't been paying for it now or anytime soon.
Happy New Year!
fonze
posted on December 29, 2000 01:44:24 PM new
aaarrrghh! My favorite topic! Deadbeats WAY up! I'd rather have someone never respond to my emails than someone who responds and pretends they are going to pay me, and then strings me along for a month with excuses and lies.
posted on December 29, 2000 02:07:24 PM new
Knock on wood nearly 8 months selling full time on ebay 24/7 and had a few slow pays took a few weeks to get payment from and a little fancy know how and wording to get these few payment but no nonpaying bidder luckly the slowest payers got right on sending payment and reply after afew weeks only had to send one NPB and left no negitive or netural feed back.
Had one person who sent me a check week ago from FLA though it might have got lost in the mail but it arrived in todays mail and from the post mark of dec26 looks like they held off on paying till after the rush was over.
For the past month and a half I have started sending a billpoint invoice to each buyer about 5 mins after I send out my EOA and I been getting most payment within 20 mins to 8 hours after auction end more people chooseing to use billpoint overpaypal hope the trend continues after the Dollar discount for useing visa ends.
They charge a small fee but I dont have to go through other steps to withdraw payment it they it automatically in a matter of days.
posted on December 29, 2000 06:17:50 PM new
No more deadbeats than usual, but sales were definitely waaaaaaay down. Glad to see the hits picking up again. Apparently some people are using their new Christmas 'puters....
posted on December 29, 2000 06:30:59 PM new
Deadbeats WAY up for me too.
I've sold both my usual old videogame stuff as well as some old computer parts, but also foreyed into the "hot deal" stuff... finding exceptional deals on the net reselling on eBay. (Of which I have decided to STOP doing as it was taking it's toll on me with the deadbeats, listing, final value, paypal fees, worries of chargebacks, etc..)
From Nov 7 to Dec 17, I've had 7 deadbeats out of 35 closed auctions on "hot deals" (computers, household electronics) stuff. Prior to this, my last deadbeat was back in July! That ratio is HORRIBLE! I've had to list, relist and even relist again on some items, of course, them selling each time, and not gettin back my $2 insertion and $1 reserve fee (if I used reserve)
From Nov 9 to Nov 24, I've had 7 out of about 110 unique people (some multi-item) for old videogames. Of my Dec 17th closings, I think I will end up with a deadbeat ratio of 3 or 4 out of 45 based upon the preliminary signs (no response, bouncing email, other negs from other sellers, etc..)
So 20% on computers/electronics items, and 7% on old playable or slightly collectable games seems to be WAY too high. I've had to file more NPBA's/FCV's in the last 4 weeks than I think I have since I started eBay in the summer of 1997.
I wish there was something we as sellers could do to reduce these deadbeats, but I know that will never happen as eBay coddles all bidders and -----s all sellers. Next eBay will probably charge us to leave a bidder a negative or request final value fees/no-pay alterts... It wouldn't suprise me at all.
posted on December 29, 2000 06:36:01 PM new
True... I've had tons of deadbeats here are some examples:
1. my computer crashed I didn't get your emails (for 20+ days). When I searched for bidder I saw him bidding on various auctions recently
2. ignore all my emails (typical)
3. I mailed your payment to the wrong address
4. I mailed you $150 in cash, you stole it. But I found bidder's email stating he was mailing a MONEY ORDER.
5. I never bid on your item, my son did.
posted on December 29, 2000 06:36:51 PM new
Also.. A distrubing trend. A couple of my deadbeats had good positive feedback, then after I nagged them and got to the 5th email "warning, I will be forced to request my commissions refunded if you don't reply.", had themselves UNREGISTERED so I can't even leave negative feedback.
I think at the very least you should be able to leave feedback (positive or negative) on any one even if they are unregistered, so long as they had an outstanding transaction with you. Because after 90 days, they can easily reactivate their account, and tada... no negative feedback in it, just glowing positives, and I can't do a thing about it.
posted on December 29, 2000 09:20:58 PM new
I see a lot of disturbing trends in this regard on ebay. This is about the worst season I've had since ebay instituted its NPB policy. It looks like a lot of deadbeats have figured how they can beat the system.mrlatenite pointed out the tactic of turning on a spam block and bouncing the seller's incoming EOA notice. I have one woman who claims she sent a check TWICE.I said fine, send me another and stop payment on the other two.It's gone on for a month. It's a woman and she has a handle like "sweetthing[this is my fictitious version, not real] and is very la-de-da aqbout the whole matter. I gave her an extension and she spent most of the time doing nothing [except handing me a line]. I'm going to have to give negative feedback and I expect that I'll get a retaliatory neg. but so what. YES, UNFORTUNATELY I'm seeing a trend where a few have great feedback records, but suddenly it's deadbeat city. One bidder was suddenly NARU'd or unregisterd voluntarily, one or the other. Had a raft of negs comming in from sellers. Had a fine record to a point and then it went into the trash.
