Just thought I'd share a little buyer story

[city*satins]

July 19 - buyer made an offer on a dress.   I accepted

July 23 - after 4 days of crickets, automated process opened an unpaid item case

July 27 - after another 4 days of crickets, automated process closed the unpaid item case

July 27 - item relisted

August 3 - buyer write and said she'd like to pay now, and would I please cancel the unpaid item case and invoice her

August 3 - I explained the case was closed but that I'd revised the relisted item to the $ she'd offered and she could buy and pay when ready

August 7 - after more crickets I wrote to the buyer and asked if she had changed her mind and didn't want the dress after all, because if so, I would revise the listing back to its original price and restore the MAKE OFFER feature
August 7 - she wrote back to say she wants it but wants me to call eBay and remove the unpaid item case

August 7 - I wrote back and explained that the case can not be reopened or the original listing restored

August 7 - she wrote back to say that this is UNFAIR

so I revised my listing back to its original form and returned her ID to my BBL

Meanwhile a buyer is mad because her skirt is slightly lighter than it shows on her monitor and has called my picture DECEPTIVE

I think silly season is officially on.

[*madison]

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@city*satins wrote:

I did BBL her when I closed the UID but foolishly took her off my BBL when she wrote me a few days ago.

Live and learn.  Even after all these years.

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When I read the original post, I didn't notice you was the op, I thought the op was a newbie (ish)

With all your experience, I can't believe you unblocked the buyer.

[gracieallen01]

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

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We won't even get into the whole notion of wearing a red shirt with red pants.

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You've never heard of Santa Claus?

😁

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Doesn't it come around with those colored eggs sometime in the spring? 

😎

[gracieallen01]

Everybody has a 'soft spot' that will sometimes materialize when least expected.

[japan-treazures]

Just when you think you have read it all here on the boards. 

You are so patient. I would have been done with the buyer and just kept her on the block list. 

Hopefully, they don't buy from you and pull a fast one. 

I have read here on the boards that there are a lot of buyers:

- Filing item not received, you refund, item arrives, they keep

- Item not as described and send back empty box or a totally diffferent item of lesser value

- Item not as described and send back a broken one, not the one you sent

This is only some of the things that I have read about. 

[*madison]

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@gracieallen01 wrote:

Everybody has a 'soft spot' that will sometimes materialize when least expected.

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Not everybody.

If I block someone, the block is permanent.

No appeals process, no second chances, no deal.

[city*satins]

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@*madison wrote:

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@city*satins wrote:

I did BBL her when I closed the UID but foolishly took her off my BBL when she wrote me a few days ago.

Live and learn.  Even after all these years.

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When I read the original post, I didn't notice you was the op, I thought the op was a newbie (ish)

With all your experience, I can't believe you unblocked the buyer.

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I know. I know.

**Kicks a pebble and looks ashamed**

[gracieallen01]

Actually, I wasn't limiting it to just ebay - and, nobody knows when it will poke through.  😃

[reallynicestamps]

@ed8108 

Some buyers are apparently simply stupid

From a previous career selling woodstoves--- never sell a woodstove to a fireman unless you are installing it too.

Those guys are ... crazy. I mean, they run INTO burning buildings so safety is not exactly topmost in their minds.

Second worst are architects.

Full disclosure:  One of my many nephews is a fireman- both wildfire and now municipal. And yeah, he's nuts.

[reallynicestamps]

@chapeau-noir 

Well, this guy wears red pants and red shirts and makes it look real good!

Note the matching masks.

http://mwakilishi.com/article/lifestyle-news/2020-07-31/meet-kenyan-man-who-owns-160-brightly-colore...

[chapeau-noir]

Yes, but he knows what he's doing.  I have a feeling the average red pants/red shirt wearing 'match 'em on the intertubez' may not be exactly fashion forward. 

[sin-n-dex]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

@chapeau-noir 

Well, this guy wears red pants and red shirts and makes it look real good!

Note the matching masks.

http://mwakilishi.com/article/lifestyle-news/2020-07-31/meet-kenyan-man-who-owns-160-brightly-colore...

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His suits match. Most people wearing the same top and bottom of a colour don't have completely matching colours.

C.

[mspirit57]

You are more generous than I would be with Buyer #1. 

Re color — had a buyer open a return because the black item he purchased was a “dark black” and I didn’t explain that clearly enough in my description and he thought it was a “light black.”

Accepted the return. He never returned. 

[postingid7659]

I not only block after UID I block if I catch them retracting their bids too.

That worked once when bidder retracted on an item, then when I got a new run of similar items to sell I got a nastygram complaining why couldn't they bid.  Because you violated eBay policy, genius.  I just ignored it. 

And yes, you have to presume the bidders not out looking to scam you have the mentality of a small child and spell everything out in great detail.  If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me something that was either pictured or stated outright in the listing I could start my own auction site.  With blackjack.  And hookers.