Idiot buyers - Non paying buyers - Complaints - talk about your Bad Buyer experiences

[imjustme]

Ah yes, the good old pizza delivery. I once had a neighbor that always pissed me off. One day I ordered from 6 different pizza services to his address and watched from across the street :D

[jscan]

IJM, thats priceless, ive also done similar things like that, always brightens up the day.

[simplyjimbo]

Originally Posted by jscan

if anyone did that to me i would have there home pranked non stop all over the night, order pizza's to there house from a payphone, order taxi's non stop, order a dumpster, dogwashing service, rat control service, pest control service, and also a stripper service.

Whilst I agree some customers rightly deserve to be pranked. I think the only victims of your pranks however are the businesses that are called and wasted their time with bogus appointments and deliveries, they could been earning money elsewhere. Do you think that all of the above services get paid for those pranks.

You guys moan about people messing you about yet how would you like it if someone called you up in the process of business and booked or bought something from you for it to only turn out to be a dodgy call and a waste of your time, take for instant stolen credit cards how many times has it happened all that lost profit and loss of goods that could have been earned elsewhere.

Why not do the prank yourself with a bogus letter to the customers address from say the tax office or child support agency or other company asking for shed loads of money for payments in arrears.

Done it many of times to mates and colleagues and boy is it a cracker. Imagine getting a letter from the Child Support agency for a kid you never knew existed and suddenly you are being asked for 10 years of back payments. I always put one of those joke hotline numbers on the letter then at least when they call they know they've been had, but up until they've called they have gone all dizzy and almost puked....now thats heart stop pay back revenge.

Or if you want it to be a lengthy prank just a put a wanted ad in some free listing paper or website, gumtree for instance, for some sexual service or sexual partner and have their number listed. An old friend did it to me and for weeks I kept on getting dirty pervs phoning at all times of the day wanting to meet up. What was worst my mate forgot the password to delete the ad of gumtree. Had to get gumtree to remove it.

[Thechronicles]

Lmaooooooooooooo

[wicked]

I deleted all the emails within my hotmail account and my P-Pal account is closed down...

[ebayaintstupid]

that we are getting spammed?

[simplyjimbo]

ooops i guess just wait for a dispute to be raised. or alternatively:

Firstly, Ask the buyer for their contact details including delivery address, you could even ask them to forward over a copy of the paypal receipt to aid you in tracing the order. Then check to see if you have any tracking details (which I hope you just don't bin) for items sent on or after the date of purchase which you could email them a copy or provide the consignment number

If you don't have any tracking details or proof of sending I would just tell the buyer it was sent the next day after purchase and wait for a dispute to be opened. As you probably know if you don't have tracking details Paypoo will normally grant the dispute in favour of the buyer.

which will obvious have a negative result on the closed account and Paypoo will have to release the hounds to recover the debt.

Ok

If I know I have sent an item, with or without tracking, but the buyer claims they still haven't received it I email them a non receipt of delivery form (adapted from the powersellers form). The buyer then signs and completes the form to say they haven't received the order etc, or as in many cases I have had many amazingly claim how the delivery has suddenly just turned up in todays post blah blah.

[imjustme]

If the PayPal account is closed down ...what do you care? Tell him to file a dispute with PayPal and get his money back :D

[wicked]

simplyjimbo
I think you mis-read the paypal account is no longer active it has been shut down. Therefore they cant open any claim with pay-pal....Although my concern is what can they still do ?? I would assume NOTHING ? Correct ??

[simplyjimbo]

paypal will simply reply that no refund can be given as the account is closed. End of

However the customer can still file a charge back via their credit card company for non receipt which ultimately will result in the account having a negative balance then the hounds are released.

However I believe in good business management, keeping receipts and emails etc, therefore if paypal receive the charge back and I know I had sent the item i would be prepared to contest the chargeback by providing any supporting evidence I have ie tracking details etc.

If the account is totally bogus who gives a monkey about the potential negative balance as paypal can't find you to reclaim the money,

[wicked]

How would I be able to find the tracking number for the item? I closed the paypal account and dont have the emails i deleted them all after closing the account? So say they were to file will their credit card company how can I go and find the shipping tracking info now ?? Also what if they paid from their bank and not credit card ?

[GreenBean]

Another good one is to get a subscription for one of those magazines that come in brown paper wrapping ('cpecially in the UK) and send them. Takes a few weeks to happen and by then the idiot has forgotten you. He gets the magazines & requests for payment. lol. Takes them an age to cnxl then. Sweet victory.

And yes, we did that to someone we worked with: took him months to get the magazines cncxlld. If you are a prat, you are a prat.

[Thechronicles]

ahh
we laff at other people
ebay/paypal laffs at us

[ebay-sucks]

Gosh, I do not want to tick you guy/gals off.

I will have to eat pizza for a week and served by a stripper??

Anyone have an extra bedroom cuz I would need it after that.

[jscan]

Originally Posted by simplyjimbo

Whilst I agree some customers rightly deserve to be pranked. I think the only victims of your pranks however are the businesses that are called and wasted their time with bogus appointments and deliveries, they could been earning money elsewhere. Do you think that all of the above services get paid for those pranks.

You guys moan about people messing you about yet how would you like it if someone called you up in the process of business and booked or bought something from you for it to only turn out to be a dodgy call and a waste of your time, take for instant stolen credit cards how many times has it happened all that lost profit and loss of goods that could have been earned elsewhere.

Why not do the prank yourself with a bogus letter to the customers address from say the tax office or child support agency or other company asking for shed loads of money for payments in arrears.

Done it many of times to mates and colleagues and boy is it a cracker. Imagine getting a letter from the Child Support agency for a kid you never knew existed and suddenly you are being asked for 10 years of back payments. I always put one of those joke hotline numbers on the letter then at least when they call they know they've been had, but up until they've called they have gone all dizzy and almost puked....now thats heart stop pay back revenge.

Or if you want it to be a lengthy prank just a put a wanted ad in some free listing paper or website, gumtree for instance, for some sexual service or sexual partner and have their number listed. An old friend did it to me and for weeks I kept on getting dirty pervs phoning at all times of the day wanting to meet up. What was worst my mate forgot the password to delete the ad of gumtree. Had to get gumtree to remove it.

mate, dont take it to heart, i didnt call your pizza shop or rat control service.

[jscan]

Originally Posted by ebay-sucks

Gosh, I do not want to tick you guy/gals off.

I will have to eat pizza for a week and served by a stripper??

Anyone have an extra bedroom cuz I would need it after that.

LMAO, yeah id be carefull nowdays

[Thechronicles]

lmao
this post is funny.

[GreenBean]

chronicles, the other threads are getting just as funny too. These some stories out
there.ROFL.

[Thechronicles]

yea, threads like these brighten up my day
they say every time you laugh it adds 7minutes to your life, when i read this thread i probably added about 60min. to my life.

[jscan]

i love hearing the stories about the idiot buyers and sellers, always great for a laugh

[Jonas]

I'm seeing lots of listings now that at the top of the listing shout in bright colors how they don't take paypal and ebay just makes them include it in the listing. They usually take credit cards though, just not paypal.

[oscar_98]

Originally Posted by simplyjimbo

ooops i guess just wait for a dispute to be raised. or alternatively:

Firstly, Ask the buyer for their contact details including delivery address, you could even ask them to forward over a copy of the paypal receipt to aid you in tracing the order. Then check to see if you have any tracking details (which I hope you just don't bin) for items sent on or after the date of purchase which you could email them a copy or provide the consignment number

That's good advice.
Not to long ago I had a guy email a question about an item while the auction was still active, but he NEVER placed a bid. Two weeks later the auction had long since ended, was paid for and positive feedback left, when I received a frantic "I didn't get my item, I paid for it, when are you going to ship it, here's the item number". Lucky for me I keep meticulous records and it had been a slow week and I recognized the userid. I also checked his bidding history and he had not bid on a single auction in the past thirty days. Despite his bidding history I offered him an out by asking him if he was mistaken about who he bought it from and that he was not the person listed as the winning buyer. He never responded.

I wonder how many sellers fall for these schemes because they are too busy, or don't keep good records.

FYI - despite the fact that this was an obvious - get something for nothing scam - this guy had over 200 all positive feedback.