What is the excuse that a buyer used to not pay for an item?

[ullmandds]

How about..."sorry, I don't have any money?"

[steve B]

I figure if you sell enough you see all of those.

My favorite was from early on, 1999 or so when things were new. I sold 5 or 6 cheap cards to someone. After about a week I sent a gentle reminder.
I got an email from the buyers girlfriend. She had set up an account for him, and apparently one night he bid on well over 1000 items nearly all cards. And won nearly all of them. She said they planned on paying but needed a bit more time as the total was more than he made in a month
I checked and he did have roughly a thousand items at $1-2 each plus whatever the shipping would have been, so probably around 5-6000.

I told them to take their time, just to pay eventually and let me know roughly where I was in line once in a while.
They paid the next week.

Steve B

[bobbyw8469]

I have actually heard more than one of the choices. Is there a way to vote for two?

[Leon]

My favorite one is from an on again off again board member who has had many, many issues with lots of people over paying for his cards. My favorite one that he told me is "I left my wallet in my moms card"......He is in his late 20s.....

good question and subject....

[dstraate]

I left my wallet in my moms car


Guess he had a hard time paying for gas too. Sounds like a guy who needs to get into working as a hobby

[Leon]

Originally Posted by dstraate

I left my wallet in my moms car


Guess he had a hard time paying for gas too. Sounds like a guy who needs to get into working as a hobby

I don't want to go into the whole thing but he does have an ok reason not to be working (there aren't many but he has one). However, there is no excuse for doing a ton of deals you can't pay for.....none whatsoever. He isn't really a bad guy either.....just someone that can't follow through

[Buythatcard]

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.

[bunst]

"Sorry, my son used my ebay account without permission and bid on the lot."