[sdiy] Re: [AH] Dillemma: bad buyer, advice needed

[cheater cheater]

sorry, wrong list! doh. This is originally from AH.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are in no way obliged to return the money.
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> D.
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Joey Gonzalez <synthesizeme at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I sold an mks70 to a guy outside of eBay for $750. I sold it to help fund a
>> trip to Canada. A day after I emailed the buyer to let him know that I would
>> not be able to ship until I returned from Canada on the 22nd
>>
>> The buyer agreed to this, and said it was no problem.
>>
>> Fast forward to yesterday, the buyer posted an item not received dispute on
>> paypal. I had not heard anything from him so I emailed wonderin what was up.
>>
>> He told me he needed a refund because he needed the synth earlier, and
>> bought another one local, and is now broke.
>>
>> I told him that refunding is not an option, that our original agreement
>> stands for shipping after the 22nd, and that the dispute is invalid due to
>> those terms.
>>
>> The way I see it is that he could have bought 20 synths, a new car, and a
>> house, and it wouldn't have an effect on our transaction because he agreed
>> to the delayed shipping date.
>>
>> He is also posting that the synth has to be broken because of my
>> unwillingness to refund.
>>
>> I have all of the emails saved from beginning to end.
>>
>> So what I'm asking is: am I wrong to not refund this guy?
>>
>> I feel as if his method to get the refund is shady behavior, and that he
>> should have contacted me first. Combined with his reporting that I must be
>> selling something broken, an the fact that our original agreement has not
>> been broken, I don't feel inclined to give him a refund at all.
>>
>> I have a perfect eBay feedback score and good references on both this forum
>> and vintage synth explorer, so I think that should be enough to prove that
>> I'm not trying to offload a broken item.
>>
>> I think he's just trying to screw me put of money.
>>
>> What would you guys do?
>>
>>
>> Via mobile
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