Indirect witch hunt @ buyers who don't pay, after an "I'll take it"

[Joshchisox08]

I feel as though this is something that may have just been discussed but I'm far too lazy on this 90+ degree day (after going on a 3 mile walk with my 4 year old who has a question every 2 seconds and clothes shopping with him) to look it up .............ppppphhhhweeeeewww

Anyway, I had an incident happen to me on the B/S/T forum. I posted a card up for sale at a pretty damned good price. Within 20 minutes it sold. Maybe I priced it too low

The guy says he'll pay later that night........... Crickets....****Churp****Churp****

Ok this is NO BIG DEAL. I wait the next day, and then the next. Nothing. At this point it's 2 full days after the "I'll Take It" I send the PM. I receive a "completely forgot about it, I was busy, I was with President Obama and we were doing this and then that happened and this..... Ok again completely understandable at this point he says he'll pay that Friday and it was Wednesday I believe.

Friday comes along .........NOTHING..... .I send one more PM.... No response..... I wait another day...... Nothing...... At this point I'm a little pissed. I repost the card and it sells again with an hour this time. The second buyer pays for it within a half hour. Now that's how you do it !

The following day I hear back from the initial buyer and he apologies and gave me another excuse. I wasn't rude or anything I just flat out didn't respond.

All of this happens and I refrain from making a post about it ...... This happened weeeeeeks ago. And I thought to myself "It's ok I'll give the guy a pass...Excused unlikely? YES but it happens".

I did ask a friend from the board if he had ever dealt with the person before. He claimed he hadn't. Then today I got an email from that very friend. Well the exact same thing happened to my friend from the board that happened to me.

I would think at this point that if it happened to me and it happened to him that it's happened to a few more people as well.

I'm not sure what the protocol is on this but if there's someone out there saying "They'll take it" and then not paying and making the seller pull teeth for the payment perhaps their hand should get burned. Only after the hand is burned will they not touch the stove again???????


Thoughts...........