short changed

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[Low Racer]

Move on and treat this as a lesson.

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[ni78ck]

these things do happen to us honest people . im the same, i would not of counted it till they left!

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Next time you see him, sic the hound in your avatar onto him

[sogood]

Now you know that person failed math miserably back in high school.

[Kalgrm]

I'd say it's $21 well spent. Now you know what sort of character he is, and it only cost you $21 to find out.

Still, it might be easy enough to just say "Did you realise you were $21 short the other day?" next time you see him.

Cheers,
Graeme

(BTW, $21 is an odd number - how did he manage to be that amount out? $10, $20 or $50 I can understand easily enough.)

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[sogood]

(BTW, $21 is an odd number - how did he manage to be that amount out? $10, $20 or $50 I can understand easily enough.)

I'm not surprised. There are strange bid values on eBay.

[familyguy]

I'm not surprised. There are strange bid values on eBay.

You know its obvious when you go to the bank and ask to withdraw an amount only to have the teller ask "ebay?"

I make a point to count it in front of the seller, so we're both covered. I dont care if the seller trusts me or not, I dont want to stiff them even by accident.

Jim

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[lemmiwinks]

I make a point to count it in front of the seller, so we're both covered. I dont care if the seller trusts me or not

Yep, me too, that way everyone involved witnessed that it was kosher.

[Chanboy]

Was this an auction on Ebay?

Ethically there is only one problem... if someone else bid $1000, and they lost because this other guy bid $1001 (but only actually paid $980) - then the other guy really should have won the bike.

Otherwise, 21 bucks is nothing in the big scheme of things...

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[The Dog]

Next time you see him, sic the hound in your avatar onto him

LOL She is not a Rottweiler but a loving border terrier who will only lick him to death

Where's he live?

I'll take care of this.....!

[ksteinhoff]

Get this,
I sell my bike on e-bay for a price; the buyer ends up leaving down the road and is an acquaintance. He comes over to pay by cash and takes the bike. When I count the money after he leaves (I know I should have counted when he was there) he short changed me by 21 dollars. Should I say something jokingly next time or just presume he made an error. That’s what I call chutzpah. Who pays in cash?

About 25 years ago, back when there was a dip in the economy, another photographer and I saw an ad in the paper where a guy said he needed to sell a bunch of photo equipment.

We met the guy at a neat middle-class house and he said that he had just gotten laid off from an accounting job where he had been making good money. "Every time I bought a piece of camera equipment, my wife said I had to buy one for her, too."

He wasn't fibbing. Spread out on a bed was two of about everything Nikon had ever made. "Is this stuff hot? We have to know because we don't want to list it on our insurance if it is. (OK greed trumps honesty.)" He produced a stack of receipts which showed that he was legit.

We through out a number, let's say, $2,500. He agreed and my buddy and I dashed off to the credit union to get the cash.

On the way back, my buddy says, "Let me handle this. I'll start peeling off $100 bills one at a time until I get to $2,200. Then I'll say, 'That's all we could come up with. Will you settle for that?'"

When we got to the seller's house, he said, "By the way, while you were gone, I found some stuff I forgot about and threw it into the mix."

My buddy started counting out the cash, "$100, $200, $300......" When he got to $2,200, he glanced over at me, gave me a rueful look, a shake of his head and kept counting, "$2,300, $2,400, $2,500."

"I just couldn't do it," he said later in the car.

We sold enough to cover our investment, replaced all our old gear and still came out with stuff that I own to this day.

[sogood]

At the end of the day, there are people who you want to do business with and other who you want to avoid. Well, there's always that eBay feedback message.

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[Chanboy]

lol

The guy who lost the auction may also be reading this forum...

[x8pg2qr]

? maybe he made a mistake. Hanlon’s Razor and all that.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence

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