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eBay What Would You Do--Another Update 12/13--Buyer Back to Being Unreasonable

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  • I thought the USPS just scanned the bar code when calling a package "delivered."

    Are you sure you will be present when they "deliver" it?
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This whole matter is about the$13 shipping charge?

    The buyer should be refunded the shipping both ways. Then why the pissing contest and limited internet access for 40 days routine? >>

    My understanding is that the matter is when the refund is processed: after Jeremy receives the coin, or before the buyer sends it back.

    I don't think there's really any question (or at least there shouldn't be) that on a seller's error like this, they should eat shipping both ways.

  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This whole matter is about the$13 shipping charge?

    The buyer should be refunded the shipping both ways. Then why the pissing contest and limited internet access for 40 days routine? >>



    You must be looking at a different case. The buyer is stating he will not return the item until he has his money back (plus the shipping amount).

    If this was only about $13, then we would not be discussing it.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How is it any different and why should he have confidence in your promise to refund him all his costs considering your ability to even send him what he paid for? >>

    Simple. Because PayPal is holding the money and once they show his return package as delivered, they release the funds to him. It's not like I'm holding the money and just being a bully here... I don't have it and neither does he.
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,491 ✭✭✭✭
    I've dealt with this ebayer in the past and IMO he is being unreasonable for whatever reason.

    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Another update...

    I went to the Post Office this morning and got a copy of his signature and address for the package, with a postmark to show it's legit. I sent this off to PayPal and he should have a very, very hard time winning this.



    << <i>
    I thought the USPS just scanned the bar code when calling a package "delivered."

    Are you sure you will be present when they "deliver" it? >>

    I'm one of, if not the biggest shipper at my PO (it's a small branch office). They're on notice to hold all incoming packages with no delivery/attempted delivery scan until I come back at the end of January.
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500
    They're on notice to hold all incoming packages with no delivery/attempted delivery scan until I come back at the end of January.

    are you serious? you are going to be away for 45 days? Christmas break?


    I had similar thing happen to me last month - but I had shipped both items. The unreasonable buyer filed PAYPAL dispute, and neg'd me claiming fraud. I wasn't trying to scr$w him, just got ahead on packaging while waiting for PAYPAL shipping to work - was going on and off that day

    Do you you remember what you wrote on the PAYPAL dispute? and what status is now?
    Try to keep all correspondence to the unreasonable one through eBay question system as PAYPAL seems to have access to these.

    I sent them both $10 via PAYPAL to send items back to me - unreasonable one does not claim it but lets it sit

    reasonable one, no problem
    unreasonable one - 'not until I receive the coin I won'

    I got the one coin back and sent it to unreasonable one in larger envelope with original envelope and packing slip inside with 'his' coin


    I told the reasonable one I would have his coin to him in a week or would refund his money as I am not sure what unreasonable one would do

    Unreasonable one got his coin on a Tuesday - his PAYPAL dispute was cancelled/resolved/disappeared on Thursday and I was still waiting for coin

    The next Tuesday I got message from reasonable buyer (I was assuming I was going to have to send him refund as I have not seen or heard from unreasonable one), saying that his coin arrived and all is well

    Last week I asked unreasonable one, since he got his coin would he agree to a mutual feedback removal?
    I gave him a positive on quick payment - he gave me a negative claiming fraud, won a nice bust half, received a crappy beat up CC dollar - I put on a follow-up listing item number and price of coin he got by mistake - both were about $90 coins

    Moral of story - not sure there is one, but originally he trusted you with $700 for delivery of plat - you may have to trust him with something to get it back

    I do not understand why you sold the coin he won? Did he change his mind, and not want anything now?
    What about the buyer that won the coin he has? what have you told them, and what are they doing/wanting?
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>are you serious? you are going to be away for 45 days? Christmas break? >>

    100% Serious. MIT doesn't have class during January, so I'm going home for a few days (brother's getting married) and then spending a month in Israel.



    << <i>I do not understand why you sold the coin he won? Did he change his mind, and not want anything now? >>

    He told me he was not interested any more and just wanted the refund. The piece was consigned and this keeps me from delaying payment to my consignor or buying the coin for myself.

    As for the buyer of the other coin, I haven't heard back from him (I told him the situation). If this doesn't get resolved in a day or two, I'll probably refund him with an apology, and offer the coin to him (if he is interested) when it finally comes back... I don't want to tie up his money.

    Jeremy
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would expect you to give me a total refund (including 2 way shipping) before I sent it back to you. >>



    Get real. image

    Russ, NCNE
  • DuPapaDuPapa Posts: 495 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I would expect you to give me a total refund (including 2 way shipping) before I sent it back to you. >>



    Get real. image

    Russ, NCNE >>



    This is not a case of getting what you paid for and not liking it and wanting a refund.
    This is a case of the seller not performing to the contract by sending an item of ½ value
    That is what’s real and not very image

    The seller did not send the coin until he was paid. Why do you think the buyer should send the coin back until he has been paid?

    Granted, the money (less return shipping to the seller) is in escrow with paypal and that should be good enough to satisfy the buyer but the issue of return postage has not been covered.
    I think the coin would be returned promptly if the seller sent the buyer the $13 that he requested.

    The buyer says; I called paypal today, they said that i will get 100% refunded on 12-20-07. So after that happens you will just owe me for the return postage on the 1/4 Ounce Proof Platinum. $13 was the price you paid to ship it to me. I'm NOT returning this until I've been paid!!

    I read that as the buyer wanting $13 to ship it back since he knows paypal has the money and, as it stands, the $13 return postage is only hitch in putting the deal to rest.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Send me 2 copies of the upcoming "Women of MIT" calendar and I'll PM you the right thing to do. image >>



    Send me zero copies of the upcoming "Women of MIT" calendar, and I'll pay for the guy's return shipping. image
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,250 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    Granted, the money (less return shipping to the seller) is in escrow with paypal and that should be good enough to satisfy the buyer but the issue of return postage has not been covered.
    I think the coin would be returned promptly if the seller sent the buyer the $13 that he requested. >>

    I've offered him, and he's not taking that deal. He wants every cent released now... that's against PayPal's standards, and he's going to lose this claim, anyway.
    JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research

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