Posted By:
Judge Dred (Fred)Jorge,
The association you have with your client is why you're involved with this. It's too bad that the debt sheet just can't be balanced so this whole incident can be ended.
I seriously doubt that your ebay name will suffer because ROOKY13 is a known buyer of high priced goods. Whether it's for your collection or someone elses I would have to believe that there isn't a seller on ebay that would cancel a ROOKY13 bid because of this incident. Do you think that there are many people out there that would be willing to cancel a potential bid that might net them hundreds or thousands of more dollars for their cardboard?
In the ebay world you pay before you get your goods so there's no issue there. That and your feedback is void of anything negative.
From a selling point of view people might have reservations sending money for an item that wouldn't be received, but that hasn't been an issue so it's probably a non-issue other than that your association in this incident might be enough to have a few bidders shy away from any potential sales you might have in the future. I don't think that anyone is going to let a nice card sell at less than the actual market value, so that ROOKY13 name is safe in that respect.
Put yourself in the shoes of the person that was not paid for goods delivered. You too would be frustrated in that situation. Your point is that you had nothing to do with this, well you did bring the parties together and you were a go between in email traffic. I'm sure that you did this as a favor but you were probably also providing services to your client while this has been going on. Does that make you guilty, I don't know but that association thing is very present and very virtually visible.
Good luck to all parties in resolving this matter.