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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted January 17, 2012 05:08 PM
My wife has ran into a different kind of ebay payment to her, and I haven't seen this kind before, and we need some advice.
My wife just had a successful auction fo 20.00 dollars. The person has made the payment, it shows up in her paypal, but it says that the payment won't clear until February 5th! Is this some kind of bank draft or something?
Also, how should we deal with the shippage of the item? It would seem kind of harsh for the person to have to wait until Febriuary 5th , but my wife was wondering ...
" What if I ship this to the buyer, they recieve it a good week or more before the payment clears, (as it is only going to down to Calfornia from Idaho), and then, since they already have the item they think to themselves, "Goodie, now I'll cancel the payment since I got what I want!"
It's a legitimate question. Any thoughts folks?
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 18, 2012 01:36 PM
Nor do I, it seems pretty silly. Besides, we don't keep any extra funds sitting in our paypal account., Once money is in there, it's immediately transferred to our bank account, but being that ebay can no doubt check to see our balance (well, I don't know if they can actually do that, that would seem to be one step away from withdrawing money), there should be no problem.
Well I won't harp on it, and the wife has just sent the buyer the info. Lets see if the buyer raises a stink about it. No offense against the buyer, (especially if they belong to this film forum ), but if they didn't want this kind of circumstances, it would have been much easier to just do a regular payment.
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 19, 2012 01:07 PM
You have a point there, my wife and I will bump heads on this some more.
UPDATE ...
WE'll end up sending this off on either Saturday or Monday, but the funny thing is, this would have been sent out the very next day after the payment was actually made. Ebay may be just "holding onto the money", but as far as we're concerned, the "payment complete" in our paypal is really only a "promissory", as the payment really iasn't in our hands ...
it's in ebays ...
and what if the buyer should think, "Hey! I don't want this after all."
Does Paypal then withhold our payment, give it back to the buyer and we only wait around, hoping the buyer is decent enough to ship our print back to us, mind you, in whatever condition they have left it after viewing it?
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