A way to get deadbeats to pay....

[bjybjy]

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I saw this on another website and thought you all would enjoy it..............

 

 

"So I listed one of my clocks on eBay and it had a bunch of bids, and one

guy continually bid on it right up until the last seconds. It sold for

$565.10. I sent this loser four eMails over a period of nine days. No

response. I called him and left messages on his machine. No return calls.

Now I'm just a tad ****** because he's still bidding on other people's stuff

so I know he's not dead or his computer crashed or some other lame excuse.

 

I call one of my friends that is a seller and lives back east. She agrees to

send him the eMail I composed:

 

"Dear xxxxx,

 

I just did a search on completed items for the antique Thomas Tompion clock

you recently won. I am a collector and I have to have this rare clock. I am

willing to offer you $750 for this clock and I'll pay the shipping. Would

this be agreeable to you? I would say that this is a win-win situation for

both of us. Please let me know your decision and I will pay you with any

method you prefer.

 

Thank you for your consideration."

 

I got an eMail from him within two hours of her sending that eMail. He asked

me if I still had the clock available and he was very, very sorry, but there

was a death in the family and he was out of town. I got his PayPal payment

within the hour of me responding that I still had the clock. I will send his

clock this morning. He sent my friend an eMail telling her that he would

sell her the clock if she would pay with a cashier's check or money order.

All done? No. Here's the eMail I had my friend send him:

 

"Dear xxxxxx,

 

Never mind. I found one at a yard sale for a buck."-

[jetset]

 

That was great!

[Mr.FoodMonster]

thats one of the smartest things i have ever heard, although whoever the person is will probably get screwed in the end someway somehow

[eric_ruck]

Yeah, really, I'd probably have the confederate string the deadbeat guy along until I could get the money out of Paypal.

 

Eric

[Bratwurst]

This is the greatest story ever told.

[robsbucs]

Great story and great idea!! Thanks for sharing....why didnt I think of something like that???

[Lost Monkey]

I like this story.. too bad I can't somehow apply it to the 20-30 deadbeats I get per month.

 

I find the way to incentify the deadbeats I have is when they find their account suspended, and they contact the sellers they have recently stiffed and promise to pay to get their accounts reinstated.

 

I recently had a 750+ feedback deadbeat who never contacted me once until I sent a NPB. It took exactly 20 minutes to get a response then and she sent me an email every 5 minutes until I responded back...

 

She promised to pay the next day, and then I never heard from her for another 2 weeks. So I filed the FVF, which got her account suspended...

 

Within minutes of filing the FVF, I receive a Paypal "pending" payment notice. For me (in Canada) it usually takes about 5 days for payments like this to clear, so I figured I would wait it out before reporting the payment to eBay. 10 days later, as I was doing a new round of NPB alerts and FVF's, I noticed that this payment still hadn't cleared.. because it was cancelled. So I emailed her.. she didn't reply for 2 weeks, but when she did, she insisted that she would send me money for the auction fees if I reported that she paid to eBay... (so she could get un-NARU'd).

 

My response this time:

 

"Enjoy your hiatus!"

 

She has since been reinstated, just in time for me to leave a negative.. and she hasn't figured out how to leave a retaliatory one for me...

 

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?...d=rowanmayfairs

[MegaManFan]

I only think I've had to file an NPB once in my entire time on eBay, but since I don't sell a huge volume of stuff every week it just probably hasn't come up for me much. The item that I didn't get paid on was sold really cheap too - I think it was one of those "worm lights" for GameBoy.

[maibock]

that is awesome!

[+Saturn]

This thread rocks. I'll have to add it to my favorites so I can pass it along to others...