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Best offer welcher....

digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
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I've got an item up on Ebay right now with a buy-it-now-or-best-offer. Someone submitted an offer, then sent an email later saying that he didn't want the card anymore. I sent him an email back telling him that his refusal to pay will translate into a non-paying-bidder strike if I decided to accept the offer and he still refused to pay.

Starting my day with this makes me feel rathery ornery. Should I pursue this, or just let this n00b slide?
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    Slide... if you're annoyed now, it'll just keep on pissn you off.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    It would really kind of depend on their attitude if they had done it to me. If they were rude, or matter of fact about it, then I would file the non-paying bidder strike. If they were apologetic or respectful, then you could use the non-paying bidder process but one of the options is mutually decide not to complete the transaction, that way, you get your fees back and they don't get a strike.

    Sometimes they might have honestly had something come up in their life and I think we need to make a case by case decision on when to wield the stick, and when to offer a helping hand.

    Take care,

    Mike
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I think take an extra 30 for lunch and move on.
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    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • 8irvin88irvin8 Posts: 173 ✭
    Let it slide, refuse the offer and block them from bidding. If you accept it they may give you a negative. Even if you report them for not paying, they may then pay and then report it to Paypal as not as described or broken. Easier to let it go now.

    Sorry this happen to you
    Lenny
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Mutually decide not to complete the transaction.



    Steve


    Good for you.
  • GOODLIEUGOODLIEU Posts: 629 ✭✭


    << <i>Let it slide, refuse the offer and block them from bidding. If you accept it they may give you a negative. Even if you report them for not paying, they may then pay and then report it to Paypal as not as described or broken. Easier to let it go now.

    Sorry this happen to you
    Lenny >>



    I agree let it go. With the new EBAY rules limiting what a seller can do my guess is that we all will see more and more of these types of bidders doing what ever they please with no fear of reprisal from the seller who is now in a gunfight with no bullets.
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  • bman90278bman90278 Posts: 3,453 ✭✭✭
    The others are right to say you should agree to withdraw the offer. Then you can block him as a buyer. Also remember if he is a problem now, just think how bad it can be when he has the product and causes a problem. Consider yourself lucky my friend.

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  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    FILE THE UPI.. You accepted he is considered the winner. I hate seeing sellers that are to much of a coward to file UPIs.. That is the only way to get the non-payers off Ebay. Not filing just puts more money in Ebays pocket. Ebay knows sellers will be too afraid to file now and is just simply reaping the extra money as more profit..

    I have filed 5 UPIs since the new policy went into effect and have recieved ZERO negs. Most non-payers will not do anything.
  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233


    << <i>Mutually decide not to complete the transaction.



    Steve >>



    Never use that option unless its an error on your part. That puts too much power into the non-payers court. Not only can you get screwed out of the fees if they refuse you can also get the neg everyone is so afraid of. If they refuse to mutually agree to end it you cannot refile for the fees.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>FILE THE UPI.. You accepted he is considered the winner. I hate seeing sellers that are to much of a coward to file UPIs.. That is the only way to get the non-payers off Ebay. Not filing just puts more money in Ebays pocket. Ebay knows sellers will be too afraid to file now and is just simply reaping the extra money as more profit..

    I have filed 5 UPIs since the new policy went into effect and have recieved ZERO negs. Most non-payers will not do anything. >>




    I would not suggest to someone to accept an offer and then file a UPI and to do otherwise would be a coward. There is clearly no meeting of the minds here, nor do I see a situation unless the seller makes it one.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    To be clear, the offer is live, but I have not accepted it. He simpy submitted an offer (which I did not respond to yet), then a day later, sent an email saying:

    "Don't bother accepting my recent offer for this card. I bought it elsewhere for cheaper. So sorry. "

    So, as it stands, he has an open offer, but has already stated that he won't go through with it.


    I cleaned my office up a bit at work and threw some junk away, so I feel a little better. I'm just going to kick his offer.

    His ebay id is "stellarbowler", so block away.
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  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233


    << <i>

    << <i>FILE THE UPI.. You accepted he is considered the winner. I hate seeing sellers that are to much of a coward to file UPIs.. That is the only way to get the non-payers off Ebay. Not filing just puts more money in Ebays pocket. Ebay knows sellers will be too afraid to file now and is just simply reaping the extra money as more profit..

    I have filed 5 UPIs since the new policy went into effect and have recieved ZERO negs. Most non-payers will not do anything. >>




    I would not suggest to someone to accept an offer and then file a UPI and to do otherwise would be a coward. There is clearly no meeting of the minds here, nor do I see a situation unless the seller makes it one. >>



    If a seller has accepted the Best Offer then the sale is final at that point Ebay ends the auction and the seller is charged fees for the item selling and the buyer is now obligated to fulfill the purchase. If they do not they are a non-payer just like with any other completed item on Ebay.

    Now if the offer is still live and has not been accepted just decline it or let it expire, why waste anymore sleep over it?

    I see no reason in blocking him, he was honest enough to tell you BEFORE you accepted the offer he no longer wanted the item. Remeber a buyer cannot cancel a Best Offer once they make it. He might turn into a great customer.
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