Yoda
Member
Here's the situation:
I bid on four separate auctions, all by the same dealer, for parts for a Webley revolver. No one else was bidding, so I wasn't surprised when I won them all.
When I was notified that I'd won the first one, I looked up the seller's e-mail address and sent him note giving him my contact information, advising him that I expected to win the other three auctions over the next few hours, and asking if he insisted on a postal money order, or would take a check, or would take plastic. I explained that I'm currently in the Gulf, so a letter with a money order or check might take a few extra days to reach him.
He didn't asnwer.
As I expected, I got computer-generated "You won" e-mails notifying me that I'd one the other three auctions. A day afterwards, I sent another e-mail to the seller, with a consolidated list of all four of the auctions I'd won and again asking how he wanted to handle the deal.
No answer.
Another day, a third e-mail from me, and still no answer.
Finally, FOUR DAYS after the auction, I get four separate obviously-computer generated e-mails from the seller. They look a whole lot like the automated e-mails I originally got from the auction site. I reply--my FOURTH e-mail to the seller--asking for confirmation that he's really there and asking if he can send everything together in order to save on shipping and handling.
It's been another day. Nothing. I'm not sure that I'll send the money, but I'll bet I'll get a negative feedback from the seller. Maybe I can give him a call when I get back to the states this weekend.
Darn.
Done ventting. Thanks for listening.
- - - Yoda
I bid on four separate auctions, all by the same dealer, for parts for a Webley revolver. No one else was bidding, so I wasn't surprised when I won them all.
When I was notified that I'd won the first one, I looked up the seller's e-mail address and sent him note giving him my contact information, advising him that I expected to win the other three auctions over the next few hours, and asking if he insisted on a postal money order, or would take a check, or would take plastic. I explained that I'm currently in the Gulf, so a letter with a money order or check might take a few extra days to reach him.
He didn't asnwer.
As I expected, I got computer-generated "You won" e-mails notifying me that I'd one the other three auctions. A day afterwards, I sent another e-mail to the seller, with a consolidated list of all four of the auctions I'd won and again asking how he wanted to handle the deal.
No answer.
Another day, a third e-mail from me, and still no answer.
Finally, FOUR DAYS after the auction, I get four separate obviously-computer generated e-mails from the seller. They look a whole lot like the automated e-mails I originally got from the auction site. I reply--my FOURTH e-mail to the seller--asking for confirmation that he's really there and asking if he can send everything together in order to save on shipping and handling.
It's been another day. Nothing. I'm not sure that I'll send the money, but I'll bet I'll get a negative feedback from the seller. Maybe I can give him a call when I get back to the states this weekend.
Darn.
Done ventting. Thanks for listening.
- - - Yoda