Was I unreasonable?

IvisonGuitars

This thread just keeps on giving! :-)

Lew

In future jack up the price by X% . If I sell on eBay I always bring it up 14% but accept outside deals minus that. 

musicman100

you obviously knew the crack when you listed it on there. now it's sold ur moaning about paying paypal fees.
the buyers bought in good faith n pay the asking price so you need to just complete the deal instead of moaning about a few pound of fees.
all I can say is this is really bad form.

Cols

rlw said: 

I do, however, still have a very nice LP for sale........................ :-)

I for one would be fascinated to see this guitar which had provoked such an epic thread.  Pics please?

IvisonGuitars

rlw said:

fretmeister said:

rlw said:

Ok.  One final question for you all.  You've seen a guitar you fancy on a website.  It's being sold by an individual, not a shop.  If you don't like it, you won't get your money back.

Do you contact the seller or just send a four figure sum to the seller, sight unseen, and hope it's OK?

And ignore whether or not it might have faults - it doesn't.

You mean just like on an eBay Buy It Now sale?

Happens millions of times every day.

Surely not?

YES!! It's a BUY IT NOW option not a 'show interest then contact the seller for a chat' option!!

The whole premise is that the sellers description and pictures are excellent and show the item in its true light, a buyer likes what he sees and can BUY IT NOW with the minimum of hassle. Therefore the seller should think about this in advance, set the buy it now price higher than the price they actually want so the buyer gets the item, eschews the auction process while paying a small up charge (factored into the sellers BIN price). Then the transaction can be completed and the item shipped, no one need talk to anyone if they don't want to. That make any sense?

:-)

fretmeister

rlw said:

fretmeister said:

rlw said:

Ok.  One final question for you all.  You've seen a guitar you fancy on a website.  It's being sold by an individual, not a shop.  If you don't like it, you won't get your money back.

Do you contact the seller or just send a four figure sum to the seller, sight unseen, and hope it's OK?

And ignore whether or not it might have faults - it doesn't.

You mean just like on an eBay Buy It Now sale?

Happens millions of times every day.

Surely not?

Surely yes! That's the whole point of Buy It Now.

Thats why there are PayPal fees for buyer protection!

How naive are you?

Drew_TNBD

rlw said:

fretmeister said:

Certainly makes me not to want to deal with you.

Poor show.

Shame as you will find me totally straight.

Dunno about that. You're coming across as a total bender.

usedtobe

You might've expected the buyer to ask about shipping before he paid for the guitar, I suppose. Unless it was advertised as collection only, or free shipping, which I take it, it wasn't...

TTony

I think this is one of *those* threads.

Question asked.

Replies given, and seem to have been received in mainly good humour.

Closure of thread imminent ...

professorben

TTony said:

I think this is one of *those* threads.

Question asked.

Replies given, and seem to have been received in mainly good humour.

Closure of thread imminent ...

Wanders off to a city centre pub to watch next scuffle......

rlw

Drew_fx said:

rlw said:

fretmeister said:

Certainly makes me not to want to deal with you.

Poor show.

Shame as you will find me totally straight.

Dunno about that. You're coming across as a total bender.

Thanks Drew.  I knew that I could rely on you for a balanced and tactful response :-)

sweepy

This thread has actually made me smile whilst working.a Bank Holiday weekend night shift, cheers lads

rlw

TTony said:

I think this is one of *those* threads.

Question asked.

Replies given, and seem to have been received in mainly good humour.

Closure of thread imminent ...

It seems that I have been a bit dumb here.  Have contacted reverb and will re-establish contact with the buyer tomorrow and he did say that he still wants the thing.

fretmeister

To be fair, Drew merely read between the lines of all the polite posts in this thread.

meltedbuzzbox

finish your vat submission 

and use a calculator

rlw

fretmeister said:

rlw said:

fretmeister said:

rlw said:

Ok.  One final question for you all.  You've seen a guitar you fancy on a website.  It's being sold by an individual, not a shop.  If you don't like it, you won't get your money back.

Do you contact the seller or just send a four figure sum to the seller, sight unseen, and hope it's OK?

And ignore whether or not it might have faults - it doesn't.

You mean just like on an eBay Buy It Now sale?

Happens millions of times every day.

Surely not?

Surely yes! That's the whole point of Buy It Now.

Thats why there are PayPal fees for buyer protection!

How naive are you?

Not so naive as to believe that was a genuine reply on my part......:-)

Drew_TNBD

Quite bonkers though.

You didn't have to lower the price or advertise it at the price you did... you had plenty of chances to ponder whether you wanted to sell, surely??

rlw

Drew_fx said:

Quite bonkers though.

You didn't have to lower the price or advertise it at the price you did... you had plenty of chances to ponder whether you wanted to sell, surely??

Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

Strictly between the two of us, life has been a bit stressful of late and, maybe, just maybe, some slightly irrational thinking has been going on.

I blame the milk tanker driver for not being thirty seconds earlier.  If he had been, I would have missed him.....

rlw

Close the thread Tony unless anyone has anything to add.  I need to finish this bloody VAT return.

All good experience and I still think this is a great place to hang out so you'll all have to put up with me.

TTony

rlw said:

Close the thread Tony unless anyone has anything to add.  I need to finish this bloody VAT return.

All good experience and I still think this is a great place to hang out so you'll all have to put up with me.

Done.

FWIW, I agree with you on the VAT return calc.