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8 | 10.53% |
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3 | 3.95% |
| I was in the hospital |
  
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9 | 11.84% |
| I didn't realize that I had that card |
  
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8 | 10.53% |
| No excuse |
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18 | 23.68% |
| Other |
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11 | 14.47% |
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01-11-2012, 09:16 AM
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I was not able to include my favorite one in the poll because of the offensive language. There was this one buyer who won about 50 of my items in a 1 week period. When several weeks went by without a payment, I politely sent off a reminder. Their response came back with every curse word that you could imagine. In between the curse words, they mentioned that they didn't bid on any of the items.
I didn't bother answering because this person was definitely missing a few marbles. I just forwarded all the eMails to eBay. I am sure that this person still has an active account. I wish that I saved the User name so that I could follow their activity. 
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01-11-2012, 10:47 AM
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I voted "No excuse" because that was what I mainly got from buyers or no reply at all.
My favorite excuse though was years ago, before Paypal, I had a college student send me a personal check. I contacted him and told him that his check had bounced. His reply was "I'm a college student and I don't have a lot money" to which I replied "When I turn you in for writing bad checks and mail fraud, your going to be an inmate with no money". Funny how the payment showed up the next day in an overnight Fedex envelope. Jantz
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01-11-2012, 11:23 AM
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Almost every non-payer that I've dealt with had the same excuse of "I changed my mind." Then they would ask me to "cancel the transaction" and I always reply "no."
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01-11-2012, 05:08 PM
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01-11-2012, 05:38 PM
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I never sold much. A few years ago, I had my dad list a handful of severely trimmed Collin-McCarthys BIN for me.. Made sense, because I had no seller feedback, and he sells a bunch of cards.. Clearly in the listing it said $3 shipping, $1 per additional item. Some guy bought 7 of them, and upon being sent and invoice, messaged that he was refusing to pay because $9 s/h was outrageous(despite him knowing it would come out to $9 when he bought the items)..The sale price was how much I wanted per card, we figured $2 for padded envelope and shipping, and the extra buck was to cover my dad's paypal and listing fees. Simple enough. We just ignored him and he eventually payed...
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01-11-2012, 08:13 PM
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This falls in the "Other" bucket.
After several polite messages to a non-payer, the guy sent multiple long rambling messages apologizing for his inability to pay due to involvement in a matter of national security. Since he had to travel to an undisclosed and dangerous location, he would not have time to make payment, and so on. In each message, his nonsense went on and on, giving me the creeps. I forwarded the craziness to EBay and they refunded my fees.
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01-11-2012, 08:48 PM
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I recall auctioning a card on eBay about ten years ago and it sold for about 5X it normally does ($125 as opposed to $25) and was elated I made that big of a sale. As it turns out the buyer (who was medical doctor by profession) stiffed me stating that he accidently bid the wrong amount.
Last edited by WhenItWasAHobby; 01-11-2012 at 08:49 PM.
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