Common Courtesy - Pickups and Dropoffs - Page 2

Fangio · #11 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 09:47 PM

Have you sent them messages since you've been back on here?

matty · #12 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 09:51 PM

i feel dead bad now..they could be in hospital or anythin o_0

SuperTed · #13 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 10:22 PM

Thats pretty harsh! all the times ive arranged to pick something up ive turned up.. people that dont should either have a pretty good reason not to or should have just called to say (i loveee you) haha no they should have called to tell you they couldnt make it!

SnakeBreeder · #14 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 10:36 PM

I basicly NEVER travel to meet people now as I have been let down so many times.

I did make an exception last year to meet Ian W ( The widower of Jane W ) what a great guy

Stephen

Ssthisto · #15 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matty__=)

i feel dead bad now..they could be in hospital or anythin o_0

Well, I'd been concerned because I'd seen they had logged on to RFUK at half nine this morning - so it wasn't as if they didn't see the message I sent on Thursday.

Turns out they did have a legit reason not to have shown up... but IMO it still would have been nice, as soon as they knew they weren't going to be able to make it, to have sent a courtesy text to say they couldn't. Certainly I sent enough texts the other way, including saying when I wouldn't be at the agreed meeting place any more.

wozza_t · #16 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 11:07 PM

that sucks!!

I arranged to by some snakes through RFUK, and the dude met me half way, I was slightly late due to traffic but i still turned up! he did not ask for a deposit, but i would have been happy to pay one!

saxon · #17 (**permalink**) 18-08-2007, 11:34 PM

Does your head in doesn't it??

I rescued two rat bucks and arranged with a person from a rat forum to meet at Pontefract Services.
I live about 150 miles away from there.
I let her know I was leaving, I rang her when I was about 30 minutes away, as she had said it would take her 30 minutes to get there, John and I got there at 1pm as arrenged.
We waited, and waited, rang and rang. We waited around for over 2 hours and she didn't show.
When i got home I had an email to apologise for missing us.
She reckoned she got there at 2.15pm, we didn't leave till after 3pm.
She then said she couldn't see our car.
I drive an ancient Sportrak, you can't miss it, we parked in a very prominent spot. Why didn't she say she had changed her mind??
It cost me 2 weeks feeding the rats, a new cage, that I was giving to her, at least £40 in petrol. And I was giving her the rats because other people said she was a good home.

The rats eventually got a lovely home with a couple in Berwick who happily travelled to pick them up and are now very happy little show rats.

purejurrasic · #18 (**permalink**) 19-08-2007, 12:28 AM

Its a pain in the a*se

I had one that pretended to be someone else, and although I didnt know her well, I had met her and know she was respected on another site.

Well, steve made the delivery and when he got back made a comment about her size. I know straight away it was not the person i thought it was.

ANyways, as you can guess, no money was forthcoming, so she now has a CCJ i took out against her, but even thats not got my cash !

SO like many, its a deposit or full payment in advance.

I find those who are really interested will not have a problem with that, and if the worst does happen, at least I am not out of pocket and I am more willing to sort an alternative way out.

fazer600sy · #19 (**permalink**) 19-08-2007, 01:04 AM

well I hope they have apologized to you for wasting your time.

Ssthisto · #20 (**permalink**) 19-08-2007, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by damo

thats out of order and i hope the person in question never asks someone again for the same thing......we should be able to give a good rep report on the site somewhere when we buy from each other, you know like ebay do that would be abit of reasurance then,plus yea a deposit to,

but how do you get a paypal account and does it charge you to set up???

1. There's a website in the States that has a "Board of Inquiry" where you can give sellers and buyers good OR bad feedback. The board does have a sub-section for international sales. However, the BOI wouldn't quite be the right place for this particular situation - a no-show is hardly as bad as, for example, selling "het" royals who turn out to be fresh CF babies...

2. Setting up a paypal account's easy, they don't charge you to set it up (but they do take a percentage of money transferred TO you). If you go to the Paypal website, it gives you all the instructions.

Fazer: Yes, they have apologised. I'm still dubious as to whether my colony is going to accept the multis that I took with it back properly - we have a few chewed ears and tails this morning.

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