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ricehq · ‎12-18-2017

I have an item that has been paid for. Buyer agreed to pickup item. Item has been packaged ready for pickup for over a month. The last communication I had with the buyer was that he was having a pacemaker installed. Since then, he has not replied to any communication. Can I assume buyer has orphaned this sale? Can I resell the item?

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-18-2017

@ricehq wrote:
I have an item that has been paid for. Buyer agreed to pickup item. Item has been packaged ready for pickup for over a month. The last communication I had with the buyer was that he was having a pacemaker installed. Since then, he has not replied to any communication. Can I assume buyer has orphaned this sale? Can I resell the item?

Have you been paid for the item? Or was he bringing cash with him when he picked it up?

In view of the circumstances, you might keep trying to contact him. Getting a pacemaker is a serious medical procedure and that could be what is delaying him.

a_c_green · ‎12-18-2017

@ricehq wrote:
I have an item that has been paid for. Buyer agreed to pickup item. Item has been packaged ready for pickup for over a month. The last communication I had with the buyer was that he was having a pacemaker installed. Since then, he has not replied to any communication. Can I assume buyer has orphaned this sale? Can I resell the item?

Unless you refund the payment, it's now technically his item, not yours. Unless the item is really hogging space, I'd just stash it out of the way and forget about it, unless or until the buyer gets back to you about it.

If it is a hardship to keep it around, I'd send one more communication through eBay to document your effort, giving him some specified amount of time to show up and claim it, and then refund and relist if that is not successful. Hopefully it won't come to that.

P.S. Not to sound morbid or anything, but you might want to check the local obituaries on-line, just in case. It might clarify the situation for you. I've had one buyer keel over on me in the past, although it was before payment rather than after.

flyerfandan999 · ‎12-18-2017

I've had one buyer keel over on me in the past, although it was before payment rather than after.

Buyers are sooooo inconsiderate when they do that, esp. before paying!

🙂

bnbsellingtime · ‎12-18-2017

I have sold two items on a pickup basis. A full size pin ball machine and a full size carousel horse. I was clear I wanted both gone in a month. They took up a lot of room. It was 3 and 4 months before they were gone. Both were weird transport companies. One called at eleven o'clock at night out of nowhere and said they would be here in 10 minutes. I avoid local pick up listings now.

I would just hold on to it if it was me. They will get it someday.

*help_no_brakes* · ‎12-18-2017

"ricehq wrote:

I have an item that has been paid for"

castlemagicmemories wrote:

"Have you been paid for the item?"

?????

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-18-2017

@castlemagicmemories wrote:
@ricehq wrote:
I have an item that has been paid for. Buyer agreed to pickup item. Item has been packaged ready for pickup for over a month. The last communication I had with the buyer was that he was having a pacemaker installed. Since then, he has not replied to any communication. Can I assume buyer has orphaned this sale? Can I resell the item?

Have you been paid for the item? Or was he bringing cash with him when he picked it up?

In view of the circumstances, you might keep trying to contact him. Getting a pacemaker is a serious medical procedure and that could be what is delaying him.

My apologies. You led with the fact that you were paid.

Possibly he mentioned his upcoming surgery as a sign that it could take him awhile to pick it up.

He may have driving restrictions for many weeks post surgery.

reallynicestamps · ‎12-18-2017

Since this is a pickup item , I presume he's reasonably local.

And if it is 'packaged', again my presumption is that it is reasonably small.

Smaller than a stationwagon? Smaller than a TV?

How about getting his phone number from eBay and asking if he would like it delivered -- at no charge.

Christmas and all that.

For a couple of hours work you get a boost on Santa's 'nice' list and get an annoyance out of your house.

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-18-2017

@reallynicestamps wrote:
Since this is a pickup item , I presume he's reasonably local.
And if it is 'packaged', again my presumption is that it is reasonably small.
Smaller than a stationwagon? Smaller than a TV?

How about getting his phone number from eBay and asking if he would like it delivered -- at no charge.
Christmas and all that.
For a couple of hours work you get a boost on Santa's 'nice' list and get an annoyance out of your house.

@reallynicestamps

What a great idea! You go to the top of the Nice List!

Please don't forget my milk and cookies, and carrots for the reindeer!

Many thanks,
Santa

sockmonkeydave · ‎12-18-2017

@ricehq

Google his name and home town, he may be taking the long sleep

I had one of my buyers die in a plane crash before he paid.

ricehq · ‎12-19-2017

Yes, it's been paid for via paypal. The item is shrink wrapped on a skid - 40" x 50" x 40". The buyer was really flaky even before the item closed. I pressed him to pay 10 days after the sale. Otherwise, he wanted to pay when he picked it up. Has a Seattle land line, an Hawaiian cell phone and wanted to make sure it fit into his pickup truck. I left him a message on his landline phone. I really think he's dead...

a_c_green · ‎12-19-2017

@flyerfandan999 wrote:
I've had one buyer keel over on me in the past, although it was before payment rather than after.
Buyers are sooooo inconsiderate when they do that, especially before paying!

"I realize this is a bad time for you, Bernice, but your Uncle Ed still owes me $37.52 for the complete set of 'Murder She Wrote' on VHS. Did he happen to mention me at all in his final hours?"

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/I-thank-my-winning-bider-pass-away-before-he-could-pay/m-p/258...

castlemagicmemories · ‎12-19-2017

The sad thing about that is I have read that people do that, not saying on Ebay, but in general, they will say that the deceased ordered whatever, and send it, and also send a bill, when the deceased did nothing of the kind.

IIRC, they like to send a Bible when they do this. I read this a long time ago, so maybe that doesn't happen these days.

a_c_green · ‎12-19-2017

@castlemagicmemories wrote:
The sad thing about that is I have read that people do that, not saying on Ebay, but in general, they will say that the deceased ordered whatever, and send it, and also send a bill, when the deceased did nothing of the kind.

IIRC, they like to send a Bible when they do this. I read this a long time ago, so maybe that doesn't happen these days.

I think you're describing the opening scene of "Paper Moon" (1973)... Must have been a popular little scam back in the 1930s...