Stiffed on Ebay

I've only sold two items on Ebay (I've bought a lot, though), so I'm really
surprised (and saddened) to report that I've run into an avionics buyer who
simply won't pay for the item he won.

I listed our old Narco AT 50 transponder (which, BTW, we replaced with a
Garmin GTX-327 -- a truly great unit), and my winner bid $285 for it.

That was over three weeks ago, and when pressed about the status of his
payment, the guy only responded with one sentence emails promising to "look
into it."

I finally gave him a 24 hour deadline, which he missed, and have re-listed
the transponder for sale.

This is a first for me -- all of my other transactions have been easy and
painless.

Have I just been lucky? Anyone else run into this on Ebay?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I run in to non paying bidders all the time act now file a NPBA then a FVF
Credit time is limited in what you can do ebay is truing to make it better
for sellers just file a non paying bidder alert on him 11 days later leave
negative feedback and immediately file a FVF credit to cancel the sale.

Non Paying Bidder Alert
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...BComplaintForm

Final Value Fee Credit Request
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?CreditRequest

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:GDDCc.100322$Sw.66446@attbi_s51...
I've only sold two items on Ebay (I've bought a lot, though), so I'm
really
surprised (and saddened) to report that I've run into an avionics buyer
who
simply won't pay for the item he won.

I listed our old Narco AT 50 transponder (which, BTW, we replaced with a
Garmin GTX-327 -- a truly great unit), and my winner bid $285 for it.

That was over three weeks ago, and when pressed about the status of his
payment, the guy only responded with one sentence emails promising to
"look
into it."

I finally gave him a 24 hour deadline, which he missed, and have re-listed
the transponder for sale.

This is a first for me -- all of my other transactions have been easy and
painless.

Have I just been lucky? Anyone else run into this on Ebay?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"NW_PILOT" steven wrote:

I run in to non paying bidders all the time act
now file a NPBA then a FVF Credit time is limited
in what you can do ebay is truing to make it better
for sellers just file a non paying bidder alert on him
11 days later leave negative feedback and
immediately file a FVF credit to cancel the sale.

Jeez, ever hear of punctuation? The one place where you didn't really need the
period (when there was nothing more to read) was the only place you put one.
Sorry, I was too distracted trying to figure out where one sentence stopped and
another started to make sense of the actual advice.

His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

"Shirley" wrote in message
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Jeez, ever hear of punctuation? The one place where you didn't really need
the
period (when there was nothing more to read) was the only place you put
one.
Sorry, I was too distracted trying to figure out where one sentence
stopped and
another started to make sense of the actual advice.

Brad Z wrote:

I wouldn't want to be his english teacher.

What makes you think he has one?

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

"Brad Z" wrote in message
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His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

His "English" teacher!!

Go sit in the corner!!

I knew I'd get nailed for that!

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Brad Z" wrote in message
news2MCc.177542$Ly.153404@attbi_s01...
His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

His "English" teacher!!

Go sit in the corner!!

Yes, my punctuation could use some work so what!


"Brad Z" wrote in message
news2MCc.177542$Ly.153404@attbi_s01...
His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

"Shirley" wrote in message
...
Jeez, ever hear of punctuation? The one place where you didn't really
need
the
period (when there was nothing more to read) was the only place you put
one.
Sorry, I was too distracted trying to figure out where one sentence
stopped and
another started to make sense of the actual advice.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:16:50 -0700, "NW_PILOT"
wrote:

Yes, my punctuation could use some work so what!


"Brad Z" wrote in message
news2MCc.177542$Ly.153404@attbi_s01...
His posts are pretty awful to read. I wouldn't want to be his english
teacher.

snipped...

The "so what" is that you are losing a significant portion of your
audience. I've read some very interesting posts from you but some of
them take so much work to decipher that I give up and move on. If
you're going to take the time to post, and actually want someone to
read it, take the time and effort to make it readable. You clearly
have the capability of doing exactly that. We all make punctuation
and spelling errors. This is not a grammar class, but some level of
readability is warranted. Keep posting but use some of these: .,?""!
Rich Russell

"Shirley" wrote in message
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"NW_PILOT" steven wrote:

I run in to non paying bidders all the time act
now file a NPBA then a FVF Credit time is limited
in what you can do ebay is truing to make it better
for sellers just file a non paying bidder alert on him
11 days later leave negative feedback and
immediately file a FVF credit to cancel the sale.

Jeez, ever hear of punctuation? The one place where you didn't really need
the
period (when there was nothing more to read) was the only place you put
one.
Sorry, I was too distracted trying to figure out where one sentence
stopped and
another started to make sense of the actual advice.

He's writing UseNet postings, not scholastic treatises.