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valanhb

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YAY!! We finally heard from him!!
I figured Earl was rushing the gun a little bit. We are just so used to being contacted like within an hour of the auction ending. That's what we do when we sell something. And I know Earl wants that laptop RIGHT NOW! LOL
 

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Good news!

Hey you're not selling anything right now...
Where's that thread where we posted our userids.. we should bump that one again.
 

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Yay! Glad to hear that he contacted you.

Sicy, good idea, I don't remember the title of the thread though. My eBay user ID is xirene. Not selling anything at the moment, since Tybalt (who makes the masks) is in CA visiting his folks. Buying some stuff though.
 

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I'm glad that you heard from your seller Heidi.

I've only ever bought twice from Ebay and luckily both sellers were good about things. They even shipped overseas. ^_^
 

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I'm late on this but with eBay weekends don't count as business days, so although it's annoying, I never expect anyone to contact and/or ship on weekends (from friday at 5-monday morning). Most people do, especially power sellers/businesses, but the low sales volume people sometimes won't, and it's not a huge deal to me.
 

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Just read this! I'm so glad you heard from them!

I haven't done any business on e-bay for over a year now, and that was when I was buying baby things for Amber, but I'm planning on getting back on there and trying to find an auction for a good used car seat...we have one, but would like a second one for the car Brent drives, so that we don't have to always switch them back and forth. I am looking for something as cheap as possible! From what I recall they sell alot of car seats so hopefully I will have some luck!
 

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You can get their phone number from eBay and call them.

I've had one seller never send me the item, one seller that swore they never got the money order (that's why I only deal with PayPal now), and one seller that said they took PayPal and then refused to do so so I never paid them and never received the item.
 

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Originally posted by Mom of 10 Cats
My eBay user ID is xirene.
That's right.. I was close! My ID is sicy.

val my fiancee looked at the laptop auction and he was drooling. That's an awesome laptop for that price. I really hope everything works out for you.
 
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Yeah, Sicy - we couldn't believe we got that laptop for that price. If all goes well we should have it by the end of the week.
And it's pretty much because it is the guy's first auction. No one wants to bid on someone with no history - or take bids from a newbie either. Kinda sad, really - everyone started with zero feedback at some point.
 

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I sell KittyOats in ebay and in all my selling, I have one negative feedback. The reason I got it is that a person was trying to contact me (kinda like you were trying to contack the person for the laptop) and my emails to him were being blocked. I had no way of contacting the person at all! Finally we worked everyting out and the customer was satisfied but he has already left the negative feedback and had no way of changing it
 

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I normally give sellers three days to contact me before I start to get angery
I ~*~*try*~*~ to contact my buyers with in three business days. If they email me I get back to them with in a few hours, but if they just buy and pay, I leave feedback and ship the item with out emailing them. It seems like the higher the feedback the less contact is needed. If i'm selling or buying from someone with over 100 feedbacks we rarly talk
 
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Just as an update, we were finally able to pay them (mix up with the Paypal address that they gave us, so it had to be re-credited to our account, and we go through the motions again!) and hopefully it was shipped out yesterday. We are *REALLY* hoping to have it in our hands tomorrow!

BTW, for you power buyers, I have a suggestion that is working out great for us this time. We have our own FedEx account, and we asked if he could just use that to ship to us. Every laptop auction we have seen has had shipping at $35-$50! For 2 day shipping we are paying right about $21, whereas most of the sellers specified for the $35-50 it would be Ground (3-5 days) or USPS (who knows at this time of year). So basically, if you have your own account you can specify what time you want it shipped (overnight, 2 day, saver, ground, etc.) and you know you aren't getting hosed on shipping costs.
 
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