KyleS
Screenwriter
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- Jul 24, 2000
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Here is what happened. I put a laptop up for sale on Ebay, the auction was up for 2 days, and a buyer used Buy it Now to close purchase the laptop. An Email was sent from Ebay explaining that the user would like to use Escrow which I totally understand since there have been a lot of laptop scams lately on Ebay. I setup and send Escrow through Escrow.com and hear NOTHING back from the user. After 5 days I send a payment reminder to him and still nothing. After 10 days I send an email to the user from 2 of my email accounts asking what is going on (and to make sure the problem wasn't on my end with receiving email) and threatened negative feedback. He finally responds and apologizes but due to family issues he was not able to respond and will not be able to purchase the laptop. Well now I don't have a buyer for the laptop and according to Ebays rules since he did get in touch with me I cant get the listing fees back.
To top it off he is asking that I not leave negative feedback on his account (which is all positive so far). since it really was out of his control... So what do I do? Can I ask him to pay all fees (Around $25) or I will leave negative feedback (Is this even allowed or is it extortion?) Should I just leave Negative feedback and move on and re-list... Or is there something else that I should do that I have not already done? I cant really offer another ebay user a second chance offer since it was closed early with Buy it Now and I only had 2 other bidders at a fraction of what the laptop was worth. Any ideas or help is appreciated.
And of course all this happened after I told you guys that auction usually work themselves out in the other threads. :frowning:
KyleS
To top it off he is asking that I not leave negative feedback on his account (which is all positive so far). since it really was out of his control... So what do I do? Can I ask him to pay all fees (Around $25) or I will leave negative feedback (Is this even allowed or is it extortion?) Should I just leave Negative feedback and move on and re-list... Or is there something else that I should do that I have not already done? I cant really offer another ebay user a second chance offer since it was closed early with Buy it Now and I only had 2 other bidders at a fraction of what the laptop was worth. Any ideas or help is appreciated.
And of course all this happened after I told you guys that auction usually work themselves out in the other threads. :frowning:
KyleS