05-09-2006, 01:16 AM
I might have wanted your item, but I would not have bid on it after reading a demand of "payment must be made within 24 hours". Depending on what time your bid closed, I probably would not have met the "demand".
Scenario. Bid closed at 10 PM EST, Bank opens at 9 AM then next morning. Mail goes out a 5:00 PM. (I'm way out in the boondocks and we only get one mail truck in/out of town a day). If you live in California and my mail has to travel 100 miles to get to the regional mail distribution center (true also for Fed Ex or other overnight service) which is yet another 50 miles from the nearest airport that handles overnight shipments, my cashier's check or money order will never make it.
I deal with this all the time. I'm in Florida, my son in California. A standard 37 cent letter takes four to five days to get to him.
I don't do Pay Pal since they ripped me off for $200 in a deal gone bad on eBay. I paid for stuff that never arrived. The seller had no receipts or tracking information on the goods they claimed they shipped. This was before eBay bought out PayPal, but I got no satisfaction, lost my money, closed my PP account.
Scenario. Bid closed at 10 PM EST, Bank opens at 9 AM then next morning. Mail goes out a 5:00 PM. (I'm way out in the boondocks and we only get one mail truck in/out of town a day). If you live in California and my mail has to travel 100 miles to get to the regional mail distribution center (true also for Fed Ex or other overnight service) which is yet another 50 miles from the nearest airport that handles overnight shipments, my cashier's check or money order will never make it.
I deal with this all the time. I'm in Florida, my son in California. A standard 37 cent letter takes four to five days to get to him.
I don't do Pay Pal since they ripped me off for $200 in a deal gone bad on eBay. I paid for stuff that never arrived. The seller had no receipts or tracking information on the goods they claimed they shipped. This was before eBay bought out PayPal, but I got no satisfaction, lost my money, closed my PP account.