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Geek Culture / nonpaying bidders - how to deal with them in an entertaining manner...?

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feiting shadow
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 09:20
So I had a bad feeling about a buyer, but since intuition doesn't always make sense, I answered the guy's questions and he won the auction and claims to have paid me... wants absolutely every piece of my computer (the cd's, remote, everything) and wants local pick-up. Now, you guys probably know I'm the one that posts the beyond-logical ideas and probably would've normally trusted intuition and ignored the guy, but didn't...

now I get to have fun!!! OK so basically paypal takes 1 day at most to process, I paid for stuff after he claims to have paid, and half a week has passed, (along with him magically going on vacation until thursday) and I'm pretty sure he's one of those 6 percent that don't pay.

So I decided to post here, a place loaded with geeks, and ask... how shall I "legally" approach this? Disguise my words and ship some other item, but clearly stating "I will ship the item in question when I get payment"? Direct him to a place that starts Mike's "How" in fullscreen on startup?

It seems I can't take care of this easily through ebay until... well thursday... but hey, I can trace his movement, ask him to do things to make my packaging easier, and even leave feedback (only positive feedback's allowed, that'll be fun... A+ At NonPayment! Great Timewasting! A$++++++...

so yeah, any suggestions? Reverse 419 scams, videos, ideas...?? (mind you he still has 3 more days to pay... could be legit, nothing outright mean here)

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tha_rami
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 12:17
I think you pretty much have the idea. Watch out, though, if he is an legitimate buyer, he could start to feel YOU are the scammer .


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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 13:08
Don't ship until you see payment. Also, paypal should immediately show a transaction (or a contract to pay) between you and the buyer. But since you said he wanted local pickup, have him pay you in person.

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