That's actually exactly how negotiations work. Unless the two of you agree on a price and he said it's yours for that price, all the two of you did was negotiate. It's non-binding. No deal was backed out of because there was no deal.
Pretty much this.
While Siccooper definitely screwed the pooch on the other guy that was trying to buy it all at once, consolidating for a single buyer away from multiple small-time buyers (when deals have not been struck) isn't a big deal, at all.
Are people just assholes or what? I was trying to make a deal on here with Siccooper and right in the middle of our deal he goes "Sorry someone just bought them all." Seriously? If you have people interested in shit, you PUT A FUCKING PENDING SALE RIGHT ON THAT SHIT.
That's not what Pending means. Pending means the transaction is agreed upon and the seller is awaiting payment. Pending doesn't mean that someone messaged you about the games. In any given "For Offer" thread, the seller will probably get numerous PMs about some of the most in demand games. None of that is Pending until the buyer says "Give you $xx for this game" and the seller says "Yes".
Gawd. Sent an email to a seller on Amazon asking if a CIB copy of a Genesis game had fading on the cover art or writing on the cart before buying it. She said no, but when it arrives, guess what!! Fading on the spine and a "P" written in sharpie on the cart label. She also didn't mention that someone who didn't know how to use a stapler tried to re-staple the manual together seven times. I'm going to return this and I'm really considering a negative review on Amazon, but haven't left anything yet. We'll see how the return process goes.
Has anyone had this happen? I had to open a case for an item not received, after like 25 days. The NEXT day, she puts in a tracking #, for "1 Day Express Priority Mail" or something, but the tracking never gets past "electronic shipping info received." How do they get fake tracking #'s?? I know it's not real because it's two weeks later and she just refunded, never mailed anything.
Has anyone had this happen? I had to open a case for an item not received, after like 25 days. The NEXT day, she puts in a tracking #, for "1 Day Express Priority Mail" or something, but the tracking never gets past "electronic shipping info received." How do they get fake tracking #'s?? I know it's not real because it's two weeks later and she just refunded, never mailed anything.
electronic info received means she purchased a label online. acceptance means she dropped it off. or if she didnt get it scanned itll show the first sort facility. Sometimes manifest ack is there instead of electronic info received.
ive never input a fake tracking number so I dont know what that would do.
Well since she didn't send the item, I KNOW she did not pay for 1-day express shipping. So somehow she generated a seemingly valid tracking number without paying. It was a new seller too..I'll bet it was a front account for someone who had pulled this stuff before.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
As someone who sells on ebay for a living and averages abot 90 sales per month, and gets almost half his business from international customers I can tell you that they do ask some strange questions sometimes. When I get a weird question , I check their feedback score, if its super low then that explains the odd question, they have little experience and just dont know the answer or how to find it with out asking. Most of the time this is the case. The second thing is language barrier, They are probably a mostly nonenglish speaker trying to read an English listing.
Also first class international mail DOES in fact have tracking with delivery confirmation to some (major) countries. Its relatively new as it started some time this year. Its taking time to get the receiving countries to cooperate in updating tracking info. But its a new thing and these things take time to be implemented I guess.
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
As someone who sells on ebay for a living and averages abot 90 sales per month, and gets almost half his business from international customers I can tell you that they do ask some strange questions sometimes. When I get a weird question , I check their feedback score, if its super low then that explains the odd question, they have little experience and just dont know the answer or how to find it with out asking. Most of the time this is the case. The second thing is language barrier, They are probably a mostly nonenglish speaker trying to read an English listing.
Also first class international mail DOES in fact have tracking with delivery confirmation to some (major) countries. Its relatively new as it started some time this year. Its taking time to get the receiving countries to cooperate in updating tracking info. But its a new thing and these things take time to be implemented I guess.
I know all the rules of ebay and postal service. Its my full time job to know. When you get 10 messages in a row of the same thing all the time its frustrating. I sell 300-400 sales a month and alot of them are international. I know that occasionally itll show delivery. Not everytime. Canada is the only one that is consistent. There isnt much anyone could tell me about international or domestic shipping that I wouldnt already know as far as online sales go
Feedback score doesnt mean anything. Buyers cant get negative. You have to check feedback left. Most of the time, id say 75 percent of the time international buyers asking questions have less than 20 feedback. But that doesnt mean much. Could just be a new account. Im not talking about people wanting 20 dollar items first class. I am talking about them asking for 5-10 bulk shipping 300 dollar sales or someone asking for 150 dollar item specifically first class. Its called be proactive from being screwed over. Usually when I politely tell them I cant, it turns into them chewing me out. So obviously I generally make the right call in blocking them.
I have bought something on Amazon and the person marked my item as shipped and put in a tracking number that eventually shows delivery to a different city. They are not responding to my emails nor have I received my item.
Am I going to have trouble with Amazon when I make a claim for item not received due to the tracking number showing delivery but to a different city?
A few weeks ago I saw a nice looking CIB old school Game Boy listed online, shipping from my location. I looked too long and decided I'd like to have it, because it was the one I had as a kid with the link cable. I was able to track down the seller privately and offered them a fair amount, in cash locally. They declined, because they thought it was worth a lot. A week passes. It didn't sell. I send a polite e-mail stating that my offer was still good and politely letting them know that if their auction would have sold for the asking price, after shipping and fees my cash offer was greater. No response. Another week passes and the item sells for the asking price. They would have made $15 more off of me and not had to deal with shipping a condition sensitive item. Maybe next time.
Add another one (maufonseca) to your blocked lists.
Harassing me for feedback before he even paid. Has sent me 23 messages now demanding that I leave him feedback and since I haven't (I don't leave feedback until I get from the buyer in case an issue arises) he now wants to "cancel" the transaction and wants his money back even though the item is in transit.
teh_lurv, you make an excellent point. This person offered their phone number in an e-mail, so it was probably just a case of overvaluing an item. Kind of a bummer that they weren't interested in my offer.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
Add another one (maufonseca) to your blocked lists.
Harassing me for feedback before he even paid. Has sent me 23 messages now demanding that I leave him feedback and since I haven't (I don't leave feedback until I get from the buyer in case an issue arises) he now wants to "cancel" the transaction and wants his money back even though the item is in transit.
Fucking psycho.
I mean yeah that dude sounds like a lunatic. But there really isnt a point since you cant leave negative feedback. If something they do extremely pisses me off like this I sometimes might go add a line on the feedback as followup so it stands out for other sellers. But i wouldnt do that either until the gave me feedback
Now I always leave feedback once they pay automatically. Easier and just makes most buyers happy.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
unclaimed means the seller has a new paypal account and hasnt set it up yet. They need to go claim the money in their account. Its happened a couple times with me paying for something. One time paypal sent my money back later because it was never claimed, but I had the item. Didnt even know it until looking through tax transactions later. So the seller never went and claimed the funds and I guess there is a timeframe that it has to be done.
But yeah its just that their paypal hasnt been fully set up yet. They are still required to ship your item and everything as if they have the money in hand. Its easy for them to claim. Would just need to log in and finalize their account or something. Whatever they didnt complete.
looked it up for you to clarify
An unclaimed payment is a payment that your recipient hasn’t accepted yet. There are a few reasons why your payment might be unclaimed.
A payment might be unclaimed because:
The recipient hasn’t signed up for a PayPal account yet.
You sent money to an email address that the recipient hasn’t added to their PayPal account. As soon as they add the address to their account, the money will show up in their balance.
The recipient is still deciding whether they want to accept your payment. (This can happen if you don’t have a Confirmed address.)
To find out why your payment is unclaimed, contact the person you sent money to. After 30 days, an unclaimed payment is automatically canceled and the money is returned to you.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
This happened to me once. I won a lot of three Nintendo DS consoles for $30, it was listed like crap and no description. The payment didn't go through and the person played dumb with me for two weeks before they stopped replying altogether. Now it shows on MY end as an "unpaid item", though my account never got a penalty for that.
In my case, I think they somehow figured out how to prevent the payment from going through, so they could not go through with the sale. I even called eBay and they thanked me for trying to educate a new seller, because that's what I had to do to try and get the item.
Funny how being a buyer on eBay sucks almost as much as being a seller...
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
This happened to me once. I won a lot of three Nintendo DS consoles for $30, it was listed like crap and no description. The payment didn't go through and the person played dumb with me for two weeks before they stopped replying altogether. Now it shows on MY end as an "unpaid item", though my account never got a penalty for that.
In my case, I think they somehow figured out how to prevent the payment from going through, so they could not go through with the sale. I even called eBay and they thanked me for trying to educate a new seller, because that's what I had to do to try and get the item.
Funny how being a buyer on eBay sucks almost as much as being a seller...
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
unclaimed means the seller has a new paypal account and hasnt set it up yet. They need to go claim the money in their account. Its happened a couple times with me paying for something. One time paypal sent my money back later because it was never claimed, but I had the item. Didnt even know it until looking through tax transactions later. So the seller never went and claimed the funds and I guess there is a timeframe that it has to be done.
But yeah its just that their paypal hasnt been fully set up yet. They are still required to ship your item and everything as if they have the money in hand. Its easy for them to claim. Would just need to log in and finalize their account or something. Whatever they didnt complete.
looked it up for you to clarify
An unclaimed payment is a payment that your recipient hasn’t accepted yet. There are a few reasons why your payment might be unclaimed.
A payment might be unclaimed because:
The recipient hasn’t signed up for a PayPal account yet.
You sent money to an email address that the recipient hasn’t added to their PayPal account. As soon as they add the address to their account, the money will show up in their balance.
The recipient is still deciding whether they want to accept your payment. (This can happen if you don’t have a Confirmed address.)
To find out why your payment is unclaimed, contact the person you sent money to. After 30 days, an unclaimed payment is automatically canceled and the money is returned to you.
Thanks for the advice!
I wrote the seller again asking about the payment and I haven't heard anything yet. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst.
Comments
Originally posted by: JNovo79
jtil7229 <--- block him.
Trying to return a gameboy game (that has no save feature) for not saving...
Neg'd me... got it reversed already.
Might want to add to your blocked list. Tried some cry story about being a "grandmother" and whatnot. Loathe people like this...
Originally posted by: legendofthedocks
That's actually exactly how negotiations work. Unless the two of you agree on a price and he said it's yours for that price, all the two of you did was negotiate. It's non-binding. No deal was backed out of because there was no deal.
Pretty much this.
While Siccooper definitely screwed the pooch on the other guy that was trying to buy it all at once, consolidating for a single buyer away from multiple small-time buyers (when deals have not been struck) isn't a big deal, at all.
Originally posted by: GirlGamer55
Are people just assholes or what? I was trying to make a deal on here with Siccooper and right in the middle of our deal he goes "Sorry someone just bought them all." Seriously? If you have people interested in shit, you PUT A FUCKING PENDING SALE RIGHT ON THAT SHIT.
That's not what Pending means. Pending means the transaction is agreed upon and the seller is awaiting payment. Pending doesn't mean that someone messaged you about the games. In any given "For Offer" thread, the seller will probably get numerous PMs about some of the most in demand games. None of that is Pending until the buyer says "Give you $xx for this game" and the seller says "Yes".
Just because someone sends me an offer on an eBay item doesn't mean that someone else cannot hit buy it now on that same item.
In fact... I've had that happen before...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Run-Saber-Atlus-SNES-rare-SHRINK-WRAPPED-Super-NES-1993-/141400637702?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item20ec228106
In the listing:
"Understand that I AM NOT guaranteeing that it works since I do not want to remove the shrink wrap"
hahaha
Originally posted by: sadikyo
Wow....check out this shrink wrapped SNES game!!!! A steal!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Run-Saber...
In the listing:
"Understand that I AM NOT guaranteeing that it works since I do not want to remove the shrink wrap"
hahaha
what a stooge
Originally posted by: 85collector
Has anyone had this happen? I had to open a case for an item not received, after like 25 days. The NEXT day, she puts in a tracking #, for "1 Day Express Priority Mail" or something, but the tracking never gets past "electronic shipping info received." How do they get fake tracking #'s?? I know it's not real because it's two weeks later and she just refunded, never mailed anything.
electronic info received means she purchased a label online. acceptance means she dropped it off. or if she didnt get it scanned itll show the first sort facility. Sometimes manifest ack is there instead of electronic info received.
ive never input a fake tracking number so I dont know what that would do.
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
Originally posted by: ironious
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: ironious
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
As someone who sells on ebay for a living and averages abot 90 sales per month, and gets almost half his business from international customers I can tell you that they do ask some strange questions sometimes. When I get a weird question , I check their feedback score, if its super low then that explains the odd question, they have little experience and just dont know the answer or how to find it with out asking. Most of the time this is the case. The second thing is language barrier, They are probably a mostly nonenglish speaker trying to read an English listing.
Also first class international mail DOES in fact have tracking with delivery confirmation to some (major) countries. Its relatively new as it started some time this year. Its taking time to get the receiving countries to cooperate in updating tracking info. But its a new thing and these things take time to be implemented I guess.
Originally posted by: ironious
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: ironious
Originally posted by: quest4nes
UGHHH SO MANY INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ASKING if standard post or economy shipping has tracking number lately and if ill ship all this expensive shit economony shipping.
INSTA-BLOCKED
Hate when customers ask me that. Might as well say "So can I rip you off on this package?"
nah, they just dont want to pay more for shipping then for the item.
asking for tracking....as in....are you going to track this so I cant claim I didnt get it?
If they wanted to know price theyd just ask. No need to ask for first class specifically knowing that its not tracked, or asking if its tracked.
As someone who sells on ebay for a living and averages abot 90 sales per month, and gets almost half his business from international customers I can tell you that they do ask some strange questions sometimes. When I get a weird question , I check their feedback score, if its super low then that explains the odd question, they have little experience and just dont know the answer or how to find it with out asking. Most of the time this is the case. The second thing is language barrier, They are probably a mostly nonenglish speaker trying to read an English listing.
Also first class international mail DOES in fact have tracking with delivery confirmation to some (major) countries. Its relatively new as it started some time this year. Its taking time to get the receiving countries to cooperate in updating tracking info. But its a new thing and these things take time to be implemented I guess.
I know all the rules of ebay and postal service. Its my full time job to know. When you get 10 messages in a row of the same thing all the time its frustrating. I sell 300-400 sales a month and alot of them are international. I know that occasionally itll show delivery. Not everytime. Canada is the only one that is consistent. There isnt much anyone could tell me about international or domestic shipping that I wouldnt already know as far as online sales go
Feedback score doesnt mean anything. Buyers cant get negative. You have to check feedback left. Most of the time, id say 75 percent of the time international buyers asking questions have less than 20 feedback. But that doesnt mean much. Could just be a new account. Im not talking about people wanting 20 dollar items first class. I am talking about them asking for 5-10 bulk shipping 300 dollar sales or someone asking for 150 dollar item specifically first class. Its called be proactive from being screwed over. Usually when I politely tell them I cant, it turns into them chewing me out. So obviously I generally make the right call in blocking them.
Originally posted by: JNovo79
You could just use GSP
and watch sales drop haha
Am I going to have trouble with Amazon when I make a claim for item not received due to the tracking number showing delivery but to a different city?
Originally posted by: LostLevel83
They would have made $15 more off of me and not had to deal with shipping a condition sensitive item. Maybe next time.
The seller might not have wanted to deal locally. Selling online does confer a sense of security, you don't have meet or interact with the seller.
Harassing me for feedback before he even paid. Has sent me 23 messages now demanding that I leave him feedback and since I haven't (I don't leave feedback until I get from the buyer in case an issue arises) he now wants to "cancel" the transaction and wants his money back even though the item is in transit.
Fucking psycho.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
Originally posted by: JNovo79
Add another one (maufonseca) to your blocked lists.
Harassing me for feedback before he even paid. Has sent me 23 messages now demanding that I leave him feedback and since I haven't (I don't leave feedback until I get from the buyer in case an issue arises) he now wants to "cancel" the transaction and wants his money back even though the item is in transit.
Fucking psycho.
I mean yeah that dude sounds like a lunatic. But there really isnt a point since you cant leave negative feedback. If something they do extremely pisses me off like this I sometimes might go add a line on the feedback as followup so it stands out for other sellers. But i wouldnt do that either until the gave me feedback
Now I always leave feedback once they pay automatically. Easier and just makes most buyers happy.
Originally posted by: arnpoly
I need some advice with a sort of a rant.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
unclaimed means the seller has a new paypal account and hasnt set it up yet. They need to go claim the money in their account. Its happened a couple times with me paying for something. One time paypal sent my money back later because it was never claimed, but I had the item. Didnt even know it until looking through tax transactions later. So the seller never went and claimed the funds and I guess there is a timeframe that it has to be done.
But yeah its just that their paypal hasnt been fully set up yet. They are still required to ship your item and everything as if they have the money in hand. Its easy for them to claim. Would just need to log in and finalize their account or something. Whatever they didnt complete.
looked it up for you to clarify
An unclaimed payment is a payment that your recipient hasn’t accepted yet. There are a few reasons why your payment might be unclaimed.
A payment might be unclaimed because:
The recipient hasn’t signed up for a PayPal account yet.
You sent money to an email address that the recipient hasn’t added to their PayPal account. As soon as they add the address to their account, the money will show up in their balance.
The recipient is still deciding whether they want to accept your payment. (This can happen if you don’t have a Confirmed address.)
To find out why your payment is unclaimed, contact the person you sent money to. After 30 days, an unclaimed payment is automatically canceled and the money is returned to you.
eBay sent him a "warning" and blocked him from leaving me feedback or retuning the item lol
Originally posted by: arnpoly
I need some advice with a sort of a rant.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
This happened to me once. I won a lot of three Nintendo DS consoles for $30, it was listed like crap and no description. The payment didn't go through and the person played dumb with me for two weeks before they stopped replying altogether. Now it shows on MY end as an "unpaid item", though my account never got a penalty for that.
In my case, I think they somehow figured out how to prevent the payment from going through, so they could not go through with the sale. I even called eBay and they thanked me for trying to educate a new seller, because that's what I had to do to try and get the item.
Funny how being a buyer on eBay sucks almost as much as being a seller...
Originally posted by: arnpoly
I need some advice with a sort of a rant.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
This happened to me once. I won a lot of three Nintendo DS consoles for $30, it was listed like crap and no description. The payment didn't go through and the person played dumb with me for two weeks before they stopped replying altogether. Now it shows on MY end as an "unpaid item", though my account never got a penalty for that.
In my case, I think they somehow figured out how to prevent the payment from going through, so they could not go through with the sale. I even called eBay and they thanked me for trying to educate a new seller, because that's what I had to do to try and get the item.
Funny how being a buyer on eBay sucks almost as much as being a seller...
To that last staement? You cant be serious.
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: arnpoly
I need some advice with a sort of a rant.
I won an eBay auction on Sunday and paid with Paypal using the eBay mobile app. The payment submitted but it is showing in Paypal as "unclaimed." I've never seen that happen before. Does the seller need to work with Paypal to get his money? Or do I need to cancel and resubmit the payment? I wrote the seller on Monday to check to see if it is something he needs to correct and I haven't gotten a reply.
Of course this is from a zero feedback seller and I won it for a really great price because it was listed poorly. I'm figuring this is going to take either a ton of effort to get right with the seller or fall through completely. We'll see.
unclaimed means the seller has a new paypal account and hasnt set it up yet. They need to go claim the money in their account. Its happened a couple times with me paying for something. One time paypal sent my money back later because it was never claimed, but I had the item. Didnt even know it until looking through tax transactions later. So the seller never went and claimed the funds and I guess there is a timeframe that it has to be done.
But yeah its just that their paypal hasnt been fully set up yet. They are still required to ship your item and everything as if they have the money in hand. Its easy for them to claim. Would just need to log in and finalize their account or something. Whatever they didnt complete.
looked it up for you to clarify
An unclaimed payment is a payment that your recipient hasn’t accepted yet. There are a few reasons why your payment might be unclaimed.
A payment might be unclaimed because:
The recipient hasn’t signed up for a PayPal account yet.
You sent money to an email address that the recipient hasn’t added to their PayPal account. As soon as they add the address to their account, the money will show up in their balance.
The recipient is still deciding whether they want to accept your payment. (This can happen if you don’t have a Confirmed address.)
To find out why your payment is unclaimed, contact the person you sent money to. After 30 days, an unclaimed payment is automatically canceled and the money is returned to you.
Thanks for the advice!
I wrote the seller again asking about the payment and I haven't heard anything yet. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst.