Things Do Happen-Some Bad

[RLOH]

Last weekend I had a call on my answering machine from one of the dealers on this forum. I busted my brain trying to figure out why he was calling. I had bought some items from him in mid January and had sent him the payment immediately. Since he is only seven hours away from me, he always gets my payment in two days or so via the US Postal service. I always ask him to email me when he gets the check which he always does. After a week, I emailed him and asked if the check arrived. He told me his wife had deposited a handful of checks and was sure the check was in that bunch. Long story short, he was calling to tell me the check had just arrived from Alaska in a dead mail envelope. The original envelope was very dirty, but the check was OK. He wanted to make sure I had money in my checking account to cover this six week old check that he was about to deposit. Fortunately I had enough funds to cover it. By the way, there are not too many people willing to do this. I usually read the feedback section a couple of times a week and it is very seldom a problem comes up. I got to thinking if I had sent a payment to one of the forum members and this had happened, I would be getting ripped. As always, when dealing, stay in touch by phone or emails and it does not hurt to communicate too much. Good luck on all of our dealings! R.L.

 

[ZOFCHAK]

Last weekend I had a call on my answering machine from one of the dealers on this forum. I busted my brain trying to figure out why he was calling. I had bought some items from him in mid January and had sent him the payment immediately. Since he is only seven hours away from me, he always gets my payment in two days or so via the US Postal service. I always ask him to email me when he gets the check which he always does. After a week, I emailed him and asked if the check arrived. He told me his wife had deposited a handful of checks and was sure the check was in that bunch. Long story short, he was calling to tell me the check had just arrived from Alaska in a dead mail envelope. The original envelope was very dirty, but the check was OK. He wanted to make sure I had money in my checking account to cover this six week old check that he was about to deposit. Fortunately I had enough funds to cover it. By the way, there are not too many people willing to do this. I usually read the feedback section a couple of times a week and it is very seldom a problem comes up. I got to thinking if I had sent a payment to one of the forum members and this had happened, I would be getting ripped. As always, when dealing, stay in touch by phone or emails and it does not hurt to communicate too much. Good luck on all of our dealings! R.L.

Yep, bad things can happen even to the best of us. Keeping good lines of communication open is really what makes all the difference!




Even in the instances when someone is obviously in the wrong it's important to remember they can usually make things right! Some people get embarrassed or defensive when it's their failures that have caused an item to be delayed, or if they send something that isn't up to the standards of how they described it. Instead of hiding from the problem and not answering the buyers emails it's important to "Man Up" and face these issues head on! We've all done things that were not 100% right, and if we're lucky those instances haunt us and convince us to do better in the future.