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Need ebay advice--re: my 1803 Large Cent
RYK
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I sold this large cent one week ago on ebay:
1803 Large Cent
I have sent the buyer two invoices and one self-composed email, the latter asking if the buyer is still interested, and I received no reply. The buyer, in the past, including recent past, appears to have been a straight-up buyer. I do not want to make too big a fuss for a $15 coin. Perhaps the buyer is busy with the holidays.
How long should I wait before relisting?
If the buyer does not respond in the next week or so, should I neg the buyer? Should I neutral the buyer? Or should I leave no feedback?
Any advice or comments appreciated.
1803 Large Cent
I have sent the buyer two invoices and one self-composed email, the latter asking if the buyer is still interested, and I received no reply. The buyer, in the past, including recent past, appears to have been a straight-up buyer. I do not want to make too big a fuss for a $15 coin. Perhaps the buyer is busy with the holidays.
How long should I wait before relisting?
If the buyer does not respond in the next week or so, should I neg the buyer? Should I neutral the buyer? Or should I leave no feedback?
Any advice or comments appreciated.
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RYK, I know what you mean. I had the same thing happen on one of my sales of flashbulbs to a seller with a great buying record.
After two weeks I finally got a responce. It seems that there was a death in the family and Ebay was the last thing on his mind. I also say family first and everything else second so to me if he was telling the truth I would have any auctions on the back burner like he did.
The person paid with Paypal and apoligized.
Even though it stinks that they never replied you can always relist it or offer it to the second place winner. In my auctions i always put "payment within 10 days please", this way if there's a problem with the seller taking his time in paying I'll offer it to the 2nd place person and tell the winner to go scratch.
The negative feedback - I would check to see it they are currently placing bids on other items in the time frame of when you were sending the "pay me " emails, if they were, tell them payment within 7 days or else. If there's no activity in their account then I personaly would not neg the buyer after seeing all the positive feedbacks. Something must have happend to them.
Tom
Your buyer knows the program. Has closed enough auctions with positive feedback that I would not be concerned. Most likely away for Thanksgiving. Tis the season.
I think I will give the buyer another week to respond. If he/she does not respond and pay, I will file a non-paying bidder notice and attempt to have the fees refunded and relist the item. No need for the negative feedback. I would, however, block the buyer from bidding on future auctions, which is a fairly trivial, but symbolic, gesture.
he had won. It turns out he had thrown a bid on the coin not expecting to win and never checked. I got his phone number from ebay. He was very glad that I called him.
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.