How do i handle this situation?? A little help here

[Hullfan]

Why couldn't your customer bid on it himself?

 

[Pine Tar]

Why couldn't your customer bid on it himself?

Incarcerated and no internet access after shower time.

 

[ktho540]

Incarcerated and no internet access after shower time.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Lancemountain]

you really have customers with that grasp of the human language?
Do you sell for people? your auctions must be awful.

Look at your post here, Boomo.

I agree the OP's English is beyond acceptable, even on an online baseball card forum. If you are going to call him out on his posting, at least write a response that is a TAD better than his. :idea:


wtf is this "Human Language?"

 

[Sean_C]

1). This is why you never bid for anyone else, especially for customers and especially on items you can't afford to take the hit on if you end up getting stuck with the item.
2). If you can afford to pay for the item, why not buy it and resell it? If one of your customers would buy it, maybe another one would. Also, are these customers at a brick and mortar store, or an online store, and if it's an online store like eBay, then why the hell didn't they bid in the first place.
3). Situations like this one are the reasons that sellers come to boards like these to gripe, and with good reason. Right now you've just screwed this guy out of his listing fee, however many days he had the listing up for, and what was hopefully a legit underbidder. He's now out the $4200 sale (something I'm sure everyone here would love to have these days), has to relist knowing he'll probably get less the next time out (unless he makes a successful second chance offer, although I rarely see that anymore), and has every right to be cursing your name for screwing up his auction.
4). Take the NPB strike, and move on, or if you want, see if you can offer the guy something for his listing fee, time, effort, etc. (AKA a bribe), and maybe he'll take it and not give you the NPB. Either way, it's a hard lesson learned.

 

[Jastermereel]

This thread probably isn't going the way you expected? :lol:

 

[mudflap02]

If I were selling $4200 item, and someone called "DaProspectKid" placed a bid on it, I would not expect them to pay for the item.

What sort of business are we running here?

 

[cgilmo]

You shouldn't neg him either. This is your fault. Take the strike like a man.

 

[agentjak]

You shouldn't neg him either. This is your fault. Take the strike like a man.

.................I cant for the life of me figure out why in the world the OP would even think about leaving a negative?? and your absolutely right, he needs to man up take the srtike and move on..this was 100% the OP's fault regardless of how the timeline went and I still cant figure out why he would see it anyother way..especially, if like he said he emailed the seller within 24 hours of the auction ending, he did have the chance to cancel his bid himself!!

 

[hive17]

It's cool I will live with it I should have retracted by bid earlier my mistake. O well live and learn.

You already received all the opinions that are relavent, but let me add; if you're going to buy for someone else (for whatever reason you'd want to do that), then take the money up front in an escrow fashion.