Would it be possible to round up all non-paying....Update.

lawnmowerman

bidders and relocate them to a remote island somewhere so they wont have access to any computers?

Kinda like England did when all the convicts were sent to Australia . It could be called "Ebay Exile Island"

I say its worth a shot.

I "sold" an auto'd jersey 2 weeks ago only to have the buyer flake. The final price was $200.00 something. He will be receiving his first neg in about 2 days.

I relisted it and it just sold for $75.00 So I'm now out $125.00 because of some waste of space no-paying bidder!

Man, this makes me mad!

lawnmowerman

They could even make a reality tv show about it. Bill Cobb would be the host and they could hold special "reward challenges" (I think I'm onto an original idea here )

At the end of the show the person voted out will be humanly "put down" by the local cannibal population.

stevek

Alfonz24

What was the 2nd highest bid on the original auction?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>What was the 2nd highest bid on the original auction? >>

It was some dude in South America and I didnt want the hassle of shipping outside the USA.

I changed the shipping options to say "only usa bidders" on the second auction.

wolfbear

Haven't gotten a dead beat bidder for a couple of years now. It used to be way worse.

One night about 4 years ago,
some zero feedback dead beat idiot won 50 or so of my auctions and then crawled back under his rock ...

What a pisser for you! Are you sure it wasn't Zef ...

schr1st

I'm dealing with a NPB on a +$400 card. The guy has great feedback, I've purchased items from him in the past with no issues, but for some reason he won't respond to my invoices or emails, and has yet to respond to the NPB notification. He's still buying on eBay though, and I hope it's not one of those "buy a bunch of stuff to screw with people before I go NARU" type situations.

lawnmowerman

Wow! To now make this worse, the jersey was packed up after the first auction. I went out and bought a $20.00 roll of bubble wrap and packed the thing so good you could probably run it over with a semi and it would be fine. The original buyer that flaked wanted the whole thing, frame and all.

The frame is very large so I gave the option for the winner to either buy the complete thing or just the jersey to save on shipping.

Well wouldnt you know, the second buyer wants the jersey only, no frame

Oh well, at least there was some good news today

EagleEyeKid

Would it be possible to round up all non-paying bidders and put them ....

1) in front of a firing squad? <-------- this is my vote

2) in a tank full of piranias and watch them being eaten alive?

3) in a giant vat full of acid?

4) tied up on a train track and pull up a lawn chair and watch the fun?

5) have all their fingers cut off and make them eat it so they can never type again

As you can tell....I can't stand them either.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Would it be possible to round up all non-paying bidders and put them ....

1) in front of a firing squad? <-------- this is my vote

2) in a tank full of piranias and watch them being eaten alive?

3) in a giant vat full of acid?

4) tied up on a train track and pull up a lawn chair and watch the fun?

5) have all their fingers cut off and make them eat it so they can never type again

As you can tell....I can't stand them either. >>



I like what you did with option 2 That would make for some good tv

InMySock

All I wanted was sharks, with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads...

zef204

pandrews

+1 for firing squads..

lawnmowerman

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pandrews

storm888

This is not a hijacking.

Related topic.

Last week+, an AH buyer BINed a $15.00 card.
Paid on the second day with an echeck. The
thing took 5-days to clear, but I shipped on
the 3rd day because he sent me a psycho email
telling me he needed the card "ASAP."

One day after I ship, he emails wanting to know
where the card is. I was pretty sure he was crazy
and would NEG me.

He has bought more than 300 items in the past 30-days,
from numerous sellers.

I got to looking at his FB. It was in the mid-90s.
In the past week he has made numerous claims
to PayPal; says all of his boxes are arriving empty,
and that the sellers are shipping empty boxes.

Tonight, he was NARUd. (I guess for trying to rip
all of the sellers on the empty-box scam.)

If he does not make a comeback, I am safe.

That is the kind of carp sellers have to put up with.
It is also why I stopped leaving FB upon payment.

nightcrawler

If I was a seller, I'd definatly block Fluffy.

EDITED: for what I meant to add to this thread.

This kind of BS also makes things chiddy for buyers outside the US.

One of the sellers I've contacted just recently, told me to add a note with my MO stating that they would not be held responsible for any items lost or damaged when shipping outside the US. For me it's a small price to pay.

Brick

Proper punishment to both dishonest buyers & sellers would be to cut off their head and throw it in their face.

ezyshooter

I'm a non-paying bidder !! Bought first auction for under 5.00 dollars. Listed 9.95 for shipping. Which i had no problem paying because he listed it in the auction. I won a second auction and this guy tried doubling the shipping to 19.90. Said he does not combine shipping ??
I told him to take a hike then. I told him he should state in his auctions that he doesn't combine shipping. I also asked if he was going to ship both auctions separately?? Nope, So i told him to report me to e-bay as a NPB and give them the reason why i will not pay and see what e-bay has to say about this.
Over a 6000+ rating he has to boot seller: greatdeals714 If you don't mind paying high shipping costs then bid on his auctions !!
Steve

Ladder7

Please, don't eradicate ALL NPBs. We need bidders like I_buy_fake_cards

Jdurg

I really don't sell often, if at all, so I don't deal with the NPBs. What I deal with frequently, however, are the SSSs. (The Slow Shipping Sellers). I always make purchases using PayPal because it gives me a chance to pay immediately, have it withdrawn from my funding immediately, and get to the seller without fear of it getting lost in the mail. In addition, I don't have to go to the post office to get a Money Order, or try and find a "secure" envelope so that people can't just hold the letter to a light and get my bank account information. (If I write a check).

What really gets my goat is when I make my payment and the seller waits a few weeks anyway before shipping. I bought about $200.00 worth of cards from a seller about two weeks ago. The seller has immaculate feedback and we exchanged a ton of e-mails back and forth right after the auction ended discussing cards. He said that he'd get the package in the mail on Saturday (This was a week ago). He is based out of Virginia and I'm here in Connecticut. No matter what USPS service you use, it should only take about 3 or 4 days to arrive. (The longest time I've ever had to wait for a domestic package to arrive was 5 days (Including weekends) and that was from Alaska). It has now been 10 days since it was shipped and I'm starting to grow concerned. How much longer am I willing to wait before formally complaining? Unfortunately, he's not responding to any e-mails so I don't know if he got hurt, or just decided to take the money and run.