I'm selling some items on ebay for my older brother (who doesn't have an account) and have someone there ask me questions about the large lot of gaming materials.
First he asked if we could trade; I said no, as my brother doesn't have any one to play with and can no longer afford the hobby. The guy (who happened to be the high bidder at the time), recommended a website my brother could find someone to play with on. I thanked him and said I would pass the information along. His reply was to also let him know about the trade offer as he'd "have more luck selling the Chaos." I thank him but let him know my brother is basically getting out of the game completely, so isn't interested in trading.
A couple days go by, and this guy is still the high bidder, when I get a message on eBay from him saying he gets paid on the first, but the most he can pay is $100. Since this auction started at $100, as we're not offering free shipping on it, I reply that I'm fine waiting the extra day for payment, but the total would be $100 plus shipping (which is about $35 given the size of the lot; I'm seriously shipping this out in one of the small moving boxes Home Depot carries.
). His reply to this was, "let me see if I can swing the extra $35 I doubt it though."
Seriously??
I decided to wait and see how the auction ended, since it only had a few hours left, instead of replying to that last one.
Luckily, someone else outbid him, so I don't have to worry about it, but if he had won, and then refused to pay the shipping cost, am I correct in thinking my only course would have been to file a NPB and relist it? I can tell you right now that from his "tone" he would not have been pleasant to deal with if he had won.
Honestly. Some people.