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[solarbird]

Y'know, if you have "No paypal" in your item description and "---> NO PAYPAL <---" in your payment/shipping details and don't list paypal has a payment option in your payment options list, you'd farking think that people would go, "Oh, she doesn't take paypal!"

Then again, maybe they'll get in a bidding war with someone else, run the price up, then immediately after the auction (when eBay actually won't let them try to pay that way) send mail saying, "Oh, I didn't notice you don't take paypal, I'm not paying. Sorry!" Fuck you!

And then the second place bidder said that he has no way of knowing that I didn't collude to jack up the price in the auction with this other guy, essentially accusing me of auction fraud. So now I have to file against the first guy for nonpayment, which I can't do for a week, just to get my fees back.

In other news, I have another interview with another lecturer at the grad school, this one on Friday. We'll see what he thinks. La.

Comments

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

::mental note:: solarbird doesn't take paypal... would you, however, take a paypal debit card?

{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}} people suck... hell, this whole frinxing (where did I get that word?) world sucks...

[aerialscribe.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason I don't use eBay....

Sorry you are having the hassles!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

And leave big wonking negative feedback on them.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

I'm with Mimi on this one. Fry 'em.

[vtslick.livejournal.com]

No Paypal. Ack! Auction fraud. Eep. Hope it works out.

Then on to other stuff--Good luck on your interview!

I hate paypal too!

[banner.livejournal.com]

And I would accuse the one who didn't pay of it of fraud in their feedback. Cause they just committed it. Too bad it's probably worth your time to actually sue them.

And E-Bay should let you file -Now- as that person has already admitted to their fraud attempt.

As for the second place bidder I can understand a little bit that they're upset that they got run up by a fraudulent bidder.

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Why don't you take paypal?

[solarbird]

Because they want access to your bank account and I don't play that. Particularly not after some of their rather spectacular security lapses in the past.

[kairee.livejournal.com]

I don't trust Paypal access to my main checking account for this very reason. Fortunately, my bank allowed me to make a secondary checking account with no fees or anything, and almost always at a near-zero balance. This is the account Paypal knows about. They'll never touch where my money really is at. :)

[solarbird]

Remembering that I still have my college credit union account, I'm setting this up now. Let's see if he tries not to pay after this; I'll hang him out to dry if he does.

[kairee.livejournal.com]

You should make sure that the bank in question has set your account to decline transactions if there isn't the money in the account.

Some, like mine, by default, will let the charge go through and just provide very expensive "Overdraft protection". I had to specifically ask them to make it so that no-funds-available transactions bounced.

Good luck!