Bad dealings on this forum ?

[Directly]

When I have sold a item I suggest they pay by a US Postal Money order. Your local Post office can verify its authentic and depending on the amount might be able to cash it too.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by Directly

When I have sold a item I suggest they pay by a US Postal Money order. Your local Post office can verify its authentic and depending on the amount might be able to cash it too.

My bank frowns on Postal Money Orders. Well, let's say that the cashing process takes every bit of 20 minutes, per M.O.. They need to do the automated "Dial 1 for,,," dance to get a confirmation #. Others, they just treat like a check ....

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

My bank frowns on Postal Money Orders. Well, let's say that the cashing process takes every bit of 20 minutes, per M.O.. They need to do the automated "Dial 1 for,,," dance to get a confirmation #. Others, they just treat like a check ....

No reason in the world anyone should be dealing in money orders today. Just don't see it. Should have gone the way of traveler's checks.

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

No reason in the world anyone should be dealing in money orders today. Just don't see it. Should have gone the way of traveler's checks.

Don't travelers checks get faked too? What's the difference?

[hysell]

Again, guys I'd point out, this WAS MY BANKS mo, not one form other places ! Also it WAS one of the payment asked for , so that"s WHAT I sent ! Back to why I posted this in the 1st place , I was wounder if OTHER problems have & do pop up time to time ? As I see it , there was a communication problem & waiting 2 days to put it in the bank & another 2 days after it clears the bank to send it off ? sorry but that wasted 4 days , no other way to look at it guys ?Again asked about problems, not pointing the finger at me or him? WE all have rights do we not ?Robert D. Hysell

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by hysell

Again, guys I'd point out, this WAS MY BANKS mo, not one form other places ! Also it WAS one of the payment asked for , so that"s WHAT I sent ! Back to why I posted this in the 1st place , I was wounder if OTHER problems have & do pop up time to time ? As I see it , there was a communication problem & waiting 2 days to put it in the bank & another 2 days after it clears the bank to send it off ? sorry but that wasted 4 days , no other way to look at it guys ?Again asked about problems, not pointing the finger at me or him? WE all have rights do we not ?Robert D. Hysell

Patience is a virtue in the hobby.

Folks who start this type of thread, although wronged, seldom come out smelling like a rose.

Sorry, but that's the way it is in Net54 land.

And my previous post was not intended to implicate you in any way. Just an anecdotal experience that I thought was marginally related to the topic being discussed. Cheers.

[ibuysportsephemera]

Originally Posted by hysell

Again, guys I'd point out, this WAS MY BANKS mo, not one form other places ! Also it WAS one of the payment asked for , so that"s WHAT I sent ! Back to why I posted this in the 1st place , I was wounder if OTHER problems have & do pop up time to time ? As I see it , there was a communication problem & waiting 2 days to put it in the bank & another 2 days after it clears the bank to send it off ? sorry but that wasted 4 days , no other way to look at it guys ?Again asked about problems, not pointing the finger at me or him? WE all have rights do we not ?Robert D. Hysell

Robert...not to defend the poor communication or slow shipping by the seller. But IMO you share some responsibility for sharing your story here before you contacted the seller requesting an update.

Jeff

[39special]

Originally Posted by hysell

Again, guys I'd point out, this WAS MY BANKS mo, not one form other places ! Also it WAS one of the payment asked for , so that"s WHAT I sent ! Back to why I posted this in the 1st place , I was wounder if OTHER problems have & do pop up time to time ? As I see it , there was a communication problem & waiting 2 days to put it in the bank & another 2 days after it clears the bank to send it off ? sorry but that wasted 4 days , no other way to look at it guys ?Again asked about problems, not pointing the finger at me or him? WE all have rights do we not ?Robert D. Hysell

I received the payment on the 23rd after 5pm and deposited it on the 25th at
9:30am.Got an email from my bank after 6 pm on the 1st and sent cards on the 3rd at 9:50 am. Is that to long on my part?
I have done ALOT of deals on this site,buying and selling.There were times I waited over a week after I sent payment.I just would message the seller and ask if they received payment.Sometimes they forgot,or had stuff come up.
No big deal.My communication sucked,but I don't think the timetable of my
depositing the check and shipping after conformation the MO was good was bad.

[ALR-bishop]

Frank---had not thought of 54 as smelling like a rose bed before, but have noticed thorns here and there at times

[timn1]

[QUOTE=39special;1753936]I received the payment on the 23rd after 5pm and deposited it on the 25th at
9:30am.Got an email from my bank after 6 pm on the 1st and sent cards on the 3rd at 9:50 am. Is that to long on my part?"



No, it isn't too long. OP seems quite impatient, especially to go public in the way he did.

[frankbmd]

A well-known respected forum member on the east coast sent me a money order issued by a respected well-known national drug store chain as payment.

I was in California at the time, where the local respected well-known national drug store chain looked at the money order like it was a fossil from a foreign archaeological dig. They wouldn’t cash it.

I carried the MO with me to Wisconsin (as part of our annual migration during the “snowbird” years) a couple of weeks later, where the respected well-known drug store chain did not exist. There I took it to my bank where it was simply deposited or cashed it without difficulty.

The well-known respected forum member on the east coast is still a respected forum member and hobby friend (Hi STEVE). The respected well-known national drug store chain has not seen one of my dimes or dollars since (Hi CVS).