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Have you had buyers/sellers back out of a deal?

Hi All,
Have you had a buyer or seller ever back out of a deal?
If so, would you please post your experience to this thread?
I don't know about you, but I've had this happen before and am WAY tired of the situation.

There are a LOT of RESPONSIBLE, REALLY nice folks on this site with good communication skills. And I've had, and I'm sure you too, have had some good experiences buying, selling, and just exchanging information.

But when someone makes an AGREEMENT to purchase or sell an item, and everything has been finalized, breaking/"changing their mind" to that agreement is called a BREACH or DEFAULT of contract.
At best, this wastes our time. At worst, we may have committed to sell a piece of gear to someone else in anticipation of getting the piece from the breached deal.

So what should we be able to do about this situation???

Did you know that this is NOT one of the FOUR situations that warrants negative feedback to be posted against someone's account here?!?

If you've had a similar thing happen to you, and would like to at least be able to post negative when/if it does, tell us about it please?
And also give your suggestions on what action could be taken (I'm sure this will get some interesting responses!) :-) to help keep this from happening in the future?

Thanks and Happy Listening!
myraj
joshcloud9
46 posts
 
I think the key to a sucessful sale for both parties is communication.

I have extensive eBay experience and some people are very "shy" with the communication.

I think they feel it invades their privacy or something!

I emailed a guy three times about a CDP I wanted to buy before I got a response. Item has been up for 21 days!!!

Weird I think people forget about their items that are for sale or I don't know what?

New to 'gon my eBay identity: Joshcloud9
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=joshcloud9
bob_bundus
1,834 posts
 
I've had my share of both buyer & seller backouts, which can certainly be frustrating, but they do not warrant feedback of any kind. If that were the case then the feedback system would be worthlessly clogged with useless trival bitching (he spelled my name wrong etc).
You can deal with whom you chose, & when something feels fishy I trust my gut instinct & shy away without remorse.
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nrchy
2,124 posts
 
I have had someone back out of a deal after he had my money. He decided he did not want to sell the phono section he listed. He sent me back an extra hundred dollars which did nothing to assuage my disappointment. I didn't want the money, I wanted the phono section. He later relisted the item at the same price.
I should have left negative feedback! Feedback should be left for every transaction. My feedback might have prevented some one else from having the same lousy situation occur with them. Would Bob bundus want to have some jerk stiff him on a deal that wasn't going to go through and have his money floating around for a month? Would he want to be without the product he made a "good faith" deal to purchase?
By all means; leave negative feedback for the people who deserve it. They make other people nervous about buying from the good sellers!
bob_bundus
1,834 posts
 
if money or property changes hands then feedback is in order

any other cases it is absolutely not permitted since no transaction occurred, only negotiation

if everyone tries to make up their own rules about "who deserves what" then the system fails everyone
& is useless
yeigh
10 posts
 
I backed out of selling a pair of maggie 3.5R to a seller for his rudeness and lack of respect for my wife and myself.
He was going to pick them up and I told him not to bother in that I did not want him in my house! I then sold them to the next buyer and I drove two hours to deliver them. He was very appreciative and paid me extra even though I had not asked him for it.
I would do the same all over again! By the way(non-buyer) he gave me negative feedback.
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