posted on December 3, 2001 09:30:16 AM new
I have a customer who has bought from me before. Always perfect contact, quick payment so on. He has bid on items over the last month (I end all of my auctions sunday evening). He has not sent me any note or notice of when he is going to pay for his items. His outstaning balance is over $500 for 50 items. He has a FB rating of 1200+ with NO negs. But with this much money on the line, I am getting a bit nervous. I did offer him a 1% discount if he pays by check or MO. Gotta save those paypal Commissions... Any Opinions?
posted on December 3, 2001 09:46:55 AM new
.....His outstaning balance is over $500 for 50 items......
I'm alittle confused.....how late is he on his payment in regards to when his invoice was sent out? Was this one billing for all these items? or was it separately billed for groups of combined shipping? I guess what I'm trying to understand is.....did you allow him to continually bid on items over the last month for combined shipping and when he was done you sent him an invoice on his total OR are these separately packaged items that he owes for....and if so, how long a period of time has lapsed since he was billed? Thats alot of money and alot of items,.....
[ edited by NanasTurtles on Dec 3, 2001 09:49 AM ]
posted on December 3, 2001 10:01:13 AM new
what is his recent bidding history like?
he could have lost his job,he could have lost his internet service provider,his pc went on strike,went out of town etc
50 items is a lot of items from one buyer,there is a good chance he is not going to honor his bids,something could have happened to him.
lots of people are getting pink slips before xmas
posted on December 3, 2001 12:49:31 PM new
I'd be curious to know if he just kept bidding over the coarse of a whole month without any payment requests being sent to him........thinking that he was just going to keep bidding to have everything combined.....if so, that's along time to allow a buyer to keep buying. I combine shipping myself on more than one auction, but I have a time frame on the combined shipping......Example: I will combine shipping on auction items that end within 5 days of each other....otherwise, a buyer could be bidding forever and you have no way of knowing if he is just "sport bidding". I would hope not for you since you have evidently dealt with this buyer before.....
posted on December 3, 2001 02:56:50 PM new
I've dealt with him many times before. I send him an invoice every week on what he has bid on. Last week and this week I've sent him updated grand totals with complete lists of what was bid on. He is 1200 + with no Negs, He is bidding on other auctions for other people, so I assume he is still paying them. If I don't hear anything by tomorrow, I think I will send a payment due by note...
