Selling my 3125 on ebay

[Jerry Raia]

My 3125 is on sale on ebay as item 170069937339

[Jerry Raia]

Not Sold. Winning bidder flaked. (http://jerryraia.com/blog/?p=31) Watch for re listing.

[Jerry Raia]

Nevermind. Second chance buyer got it...SOLD!

[Mike Temporale]

Not Sold. Winning bidder flaked. (http://jerryraia.com/blog/?p=31) Watch for re listing.

That sucks! I'm always worried about the buyer pulling crap like this. Glad it worked out with the second chance bidder.

[onlydarksets]

Not Sold. Winning bidder flaked. (http://jerryraia.com/blog/?p=31) Watch for re listing.

You never have to pay the listing fee if the buyer backs out. You have to file a claim, but eBay refunds the fee. I'm glad you got it worked out, though - much easier that way.

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah I have done that a couple times but it is like a 2 week process. This is the first time second chance actually worked for me. I also got the original winner to pay me the listing fee. As it turns out I didn't need that.

[onlydarksets]

Wow - that's unexpected. Given that, I would probably give the guy neutral feedback at worst, and possibly even positive if he was very cordial throughout the deal. Of course, it's your feedback to give ;)

[Jerry Raia]

That is what I should have done. However I was steaming when the stunt was pulled so they got a negative. Oh well maybe it will impress them not to do that anymore?

[onlydarksets]

I don't think negative feedback is unwarranted where the buyer pulls out of the deal. eBay really isn't all that complicated - if you can't figure out that you "won a bet", then you need to start paying closer attention. The more likely scenario is that he found a phone for cheaper and simply wanted out of your auction. Nothing wrong with negative feedback for that.

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah that is kind of what I was thinking too. I'm not a huge seller there but I sell enough and I've had this happen to me at least 5 times out of 40 or so sales. I went through that dispute process twice and it does work, just takes a long time.

[Mike Temporale]

Well, if you still made the sale, and he paid the listing fee, do you really need to give him negative feedback? I guess it depends what he did that caused the other negative feedback that he has.

[Jerry Raia]

No, but I already had and there is no changing it.