Resale Is a Bitch

Summer is the worst time for resale. In June and July prices tank, never to recover until fall. During this time, there will always be whiners and scammers.

I have a booth at Bonanza. My sales are so lackluster that I actually forgot I had the booth and never use the paypal address associated with said booth anymore.

I was sifting through my Yahoo mail that I check once a month or so for a bill from my trash pickup and saw "You made a sale at Bonanza" This sale was 4 days before I actually saw the e-mail...I messaged the buyer said "Never saw e-mail, etc etc. Will send tomorrow".

That night, my father-in-law died. Long story short, because of all the goings on, I forgot all about the $4.00 pony. Of course she complained to Bonanza, and now I have to go to the fucking library in order to refund her, since I don't want cookies from the paypal accounts mixing.

I put the damned troublesome booth "on vacation" Frig that headache. I am not going upstairs in 90+ degree humid weather to look for a pony I put away last year for a lousy $1.00 or $2.00 profit.

In the meantime I list on ebay. I randomly get a message one day:

"Hello! Please go ahead and leave me positive feedback for my prompt payment regarding this doll case. I paid for it immediately going on a month and a half ago. If you wait another week or so (total 45 days) the item will disappear from your list and you won't be able to leave feedback at all. I left you positive feedback right after it arrived. Thank you! I appreciate it!"

Well, thanks for ordering me me to leave you feedback, bitch. You may have paid for it immediately, but that doesn't always make for a good buyer. Good buyers shut their damned mouths and enjoy their merchandise. Good buyers don't issue orders. I sent her a terse e-mail saying that we had just lost my father-in-law and that "Sorry, I wasn't exactly focused on ebay. I will leave it tomorrow" and I did. I hate people.

Today I got an e-mail saying, quite ambiguously, "I am sorry. I did not know there wasn't a belt" Afterward, I check my e-mail and see that someone had bid and retracted on a doll. I said in line 2 of the description: "The belt is missing"

Also this morning, I got another message from someone speaking broken English asking me to "sell the doll outside of the auction" Why can't these assholes wait the 4 days til the auction ends? Yes, your life will end if you cannot buy it now. I am suspecting that she thinks she can buy it for the start price. Not.Going.To.Happen.