To NPB Strike or Not to Strike
Just curious what some of you would do in the case of a deadbeat bidder, I have a buyer who won one of my auctions last friday, never had paid, and I have done business with her twice in the recent past.
the first time I actually meant to block her because she purchased a pair of swim bottoms from me, then once she recieved them she messaged me wanting to know why she only got 1 item when the ebay listing said a "pair of swim bottoms" now granted there was a photo of the 1 item and the auction said "you will recieve one pair of paisley swim bottoms" so yeah, I had to explain to her that in this case "pair" did not mean a set of 2, that it was like saying a "pair of pants" its only 1.
So I meant to block her after that just for being that dense I knew she's the sort thats trouble. Anyway for whatever reason I neglected to add her to the list, she purchased from me again a few weeks ago, this time a shirt, no problem this time. Well now she has bought this item from me last friday, this morning she has sent an email that says:
"I'm so sorry I really wanted these but I have ran into a bit of a financial hardship unexpectedly and I'm not able to pay you, so can you cancel the transaction so that I can buy from you again in the future"
Ok now granted I know things happen, and I might have been sympathetic to her plight except I checked her feedback and she had recieved 7 feedback since friday, upon clicking view items I see that 4 of those were items that had been purchased since friday with BIN requiring immediate payment, she purchased 1 items sunday,2 items on monday and 1 yesterday, the one she bought yesterday was $49.99 thats double what she owes me for what she bought on friday, so her "financial hardship" story doesnt hold water.
So now the question is if this were you, would you cancel the transaction for her and just let her off the hook and block her or would you file an unpaid item case and let her get a strike?
If it werent a seasonal item in question I'd probably just cancel and be done with it so I could relist, but summer is basically over now and with the unseasonably cool temps nobody is buying summer stuff now and Im gonna have to hold this item over til next year so being able to relist it isn't a concern.
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