posted on August 27, 2002 11:57:51 AM new
Thanks, Kiara, for the info! I can always count on you.
I've run the scan, and it showed nothing, which in a way didn't surprise me.
Tooltimes, I was thinking something along those lines - that it might just be a glitch of some sort with Hotmail - but don't know what might have been confusing; I did nothing unusual. Will go back and try again.
Speaking of glitches, wanna hear about an eBay one?
First, to tell you how bad things are for me right now: Of my auctions which ended 8/13, only four items total sold to three different bidders (all four auctions totalled less than $50.00). One bidder never responded to my emails, so I had filed NPB on that one last week. The second one emailed me on 8/17 that she was mailing a check on Monday, 8/19 for $xx.xx (an amount less than her total), and to 'not bother with insurance'. I emailed her back, and ask her please not to deduct the insurance from her payment - that (as noted in our TOS) we don't ship glass without insurance. (And please, Anyone, don't open this post to an insurance debate...that isn't the point here.) I heard no more from her, and a week later still had not received payment (today is 2 weeks after EOA, and my terms say 10 days). The third bidder (who outbid others for 2 items) has likewise not paid, nor has she emailed since I sent her her total.
Sooo..yesterday I filed 3 NPBs...hoping I would get the "I forgot about this...." response, at least. The first one went through normally. The second one, when I submitted it, took me directly to a screen to request FVF, and then one that said my account had been credited. Ditto the third one. Don't know why, but when I checked my account, the credits were there. (Just occurred to me while writing this that the bidder may have been NARUd - didn't check that - Would that cause it?)
Anyway, happy to know my 'puter isn't sick, and will try again to email the pics.
posted on August 27, 2002 12:15:54 PM new
You're a glitch magnet?.
The tale of the three bidders sounds all too typical of the lackadaisical payment attitude of many bidders. If you sell a lot of stuff on Half or Yahoo's Used Goods venues you can really appreciate that they handle all the money and address gathering aspects of the sale.
posted on August 27, 2002 12:33:16 PM newTooltimes, I think glitch magnet is only the half of it. Until a few months ago, I couldn't complain about much of anything - some health problems, but I could deal with that.
To add concerning the auctions that ended 8/13:
Since things have been so incredibly slow this summer, I had been listing 60-100 auctions per week,, working myself to death nearly, on the theory that "if you throw enough 'stuff' against the wall, some of it has to stick", but some weeks my listing fees were more than my sales! So that particular week I had cut way down on my listings.
But this was an all-time (3+ years) low for me....maybe a 25% sell-through (when I used to consider 80% slow, and averaged 90-95%), plus 100% non-pay! I used to get a non-pay once every few months.
Yes, I've been saying for years that eBay could do something to protect us.
For one thing, they could require bidders to post credit cards, even if for very limited use.
You no pay? Fine - eBay charges your card for listing fee and a 10% re-stock fee that goes to the seller. (It would be too much to hope that any no-pays got billed to the cc, and I can understand where that could be a problem, too.)
And maybe that isn't the perfect way, but they could do something! IF, IF, IF they WANTED to!
