I have had too many buyers who say they want the item, then never write back, and many of these were members. I had a buyer who said he'd mail the check......the check never arrived nor did any more communication. This tied up my amplifier for two weeks. He was a non-member. I had someone strongly commit to an item yesterday after wanting me to call him in Canada, then he later emails me changing his mind. Part of business on the web.....
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!
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!
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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 |
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. |
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! |
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