Cornelius
12-07-2009, 08:57 PM
Put this crazy lady on your blocked bidder list: rush*floyd
So this woman and another person bid my American McGee's Alice up to $55 a week ago Sunday. She called shortly after the auction ended and left a message saying she couldn't follow through with the transaction and asking me to cancel the transaction. I quickly made the second chance offer, but the other bidder had hit a BIN just after the auction.
Deadbeat bidders piss me off at the best of times, but something about her calling instead of emailing rubbed me the wrong way. I ended up calling the next day or she called again, don't remember. I told her that to get my fees back, I'd have to file a NPB dispute, and she said all I had to do was file a cancel request, which she's had sellers do for her many times in the past. She had some story about someone using her account trying to help her, but she actually has had this game since she was 3. She clearly sounds well into middle age, and this game came out, what, 6 or 8 years ago? So now she's lied to me and presented a really strange explanation for why she can't pay. I hung up on her.
She called that night at 1 am, waking me up, though I didn't answer in time and she left a really long message that ran out of 'tape'. I put her number in my phone so it won't ring any more when she calls. Another call at around 8 the next morning, another long message. The gist of her messages is that she doesn't understand how I could hang up on her, and how she just needs me to do the cancel request and she's sorry and blah, blah, blah. All this with a Louisiana drawl, just to give some context (nothing against southern accents, I have one myself according to my wife).
I don't think I communicated to her anymore and a week goes by. Sunday (yesterday) I re-list the item since she's made it clear she won't pay. Today I filed a non-paying buyer dispute. She called with some story (on voicemail) that she called eBay and they said I'd been refunded on my FVFs and that I should just drop the case and do a cancel request. She also said she couldn't pay now, because I had the item relisted. I emailed her and told her not to worry about it being re-listed, since I could cancel it if she pays.
Well, she thinks she 'has me' now. It is apparently against eBay rules to re-list an item while still requesting payment for it. I didn't know that. So now in her eyes (and voicemails that took 3 separate messages) I'm breaking eBay's rules and boy won't I be sorry. One of her messages said she'd been on the phone with them for 2.5 hours! Not that I believe that necessarily, but man, for that much time wouldn't it have been easier just to pay for the item?
So I sorta understand eBay's policy about not re-listing while waiting for payment, but it isn't like if you are running a B&M store you can't sell an item locally while simultaneously having it listed. That's why they have the cancel auction/item no longer available option. I'll still have time to do so if she pays at the last minute of the NPB dispute. Funnily enough, that's what she 'threatened' to do, so that all the new bidders would be "pissed" at me, and won't I be sorry then. Except that it doesn't end for 2 days after her deadline. I'd LMAO if she actually pays after all this. That'd be brilliant!
Anyway, I guess I've unknowingly violated a policy. The worst I figure can happen is they pull my re-list auction ($1), and I lose my FVF from the first time + that listing fee (4.26). It is worth well more than that to make sure she gets a NPB strike. I guess that's actually the worst case, if she doesn't get a strike.
So this is my 'best' eBay story to date. Largely because of the immediate and constant phone calls that filled up multiple voicemail time limits. Really, who calls on eBay?
So what's your craziest eBayer story?
So this woman and another person bid my American McGee's Alice up to $55 a week ago Sunday. She called shortly after the auction ended and left a message saying she couldn't follow through with the transaction and asking me to cancel the transaction. I quickly made the second chance offer, but the other bidder had hit a BIN just after the auction.
Deadbeat bidders piss me off at the best of times, but something about her calling instead of emailing rubbed me the wrong way. I ended up calling the next day or she called again, don't remember. I told her that to get my fees back, I'd have to file a NPB dispute, and she said all I had to do was file a cancel request, which she's had sellers do for her many times in the past. She had some story about someone using her account trying to help her, but she actually has had this game since she was 3. She clearly sounds well into middle age, and this game came out, what, 6 or 8 years ago? So now she's lied to me and presented a really strange explanation for why she can't pay. I hung up on her.
She called that night at 1 am, waking me up, though I didn't answer in time and she left a really long message that ran out of 'tape'. I put her number in my phone so it won't ring any more when she calls. Another call at around 8 the next morning, another long message. The gist of her messages is that she doesn't understand how I could hang up on her, and how she just needs me to do the cancel request and she's sorry and blah, blah, blah. All this with a Louisiana drawl, just to give some context (nothing against southern accents, I have one myself according to my wife).
I don't think I communicated to her anymore and a week goes by. Sunday (yesterday) I re-list the item since she's made it clear she won't pay. Today I filed a non-paying buyer dispute. She called with some story (on voicemail) that she called eBay and they said I'd been refunded on my FVFs and that I should just drop the case and do a cancel request. She also said she couldn't pay now, because I had the item relisted. I emailed her and told her not to worry about it being re-listed, since I could cancel it if she pays.
Well, she thinks she 'has me' now. It is apparently against eBay rules to re-list an item while still requesting payment for it. I didn't know that. So now in her eyes (and voicemails that took 3 separate messages) I'm breaking eBay's rules and boy won't I be sorry. One of her messages said she'd been on the phone with them for 2.5 hours! Not that I believe that necessarily, but man, for that much time wouldn't it have been easier just to pay for the item?
So I sorta understand eBay's policy about not re-listing while waiting for payment, but it isn't like if you are running a B&M store you can't sell an item locally while simultaneously having it listed. That's why they have the cancel auction/item no longer available option. I'll still have time to do so if she pays at the last minute of the NPB dispute. Funnily enough, that's what she 'threatened' to do, so that all the new bidders would be "pissed" at me, and won't I be sorry then. Except that it doesn't end for 2 days after her deadline. I'd LMAO if she actually pays after all this. That'd be brilliant!
Anyway, I guess I've unknowingly violated a policy. The worst I figure can happen is they pull my re-list auction ($1), and I lose my FVF from the first time + that listing fee (4.26). It is worth well more than that to make sure she gets a NPB strike. I guess that's actually the worst case, if she doesn't get a strike.
So this is my 'best' eBay story to date. Largely because of the immediate and constant phone calls that filled up multiple voicemail time limits. Really, who calls on eBay?
So what's your craziest eBayer story?