Oh for CRYING out loud! Why???

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Just sold an item for local pick up only. It is a large tent.

Congratulations, you have sold your item! Please contact the buyer to arrange for them to collect.

The buyer is a Chinese person living in Gardena, CA 90248-3023 United States. They have 118 feedback with 100%.

I am in South East England.

What on earth do I do?

Think I will wait and do unpaid, at least that way I'll get the fees back. Or can you do unpaid if they are too far to collect?

What if they then pay, and you have to refund.

A buyer cannot insist that you send an item where pickup only is stated in the listing.
you put in a request to cancel the transaction and state why.
This has worked fine on the couple of occasions I had idiots saying things like 'all you have to do is wrap it in a bin liner and wait in for the courier' er, no I'll be at work!

no you won't get your fees back when they pay by paypal.

Ah Ok thank you. What if they refuse to cancel and pay anyway?

refund and ask eBay for the fees back.

oooh, i live in the south east and recently bid on a large tent - theres a bit of a story, if it was you, id say it was karma.

but if it wasn't do you want to sell your tent?

Thanks. I've requested cancellation. Looking again at feedback, a couple say 'didn't work out as buyer is from Korea' and 'bought tent but didn't pay or respond to emails'.

Looks like they make a habit of it. Fuckers.

Oh x posts Lem! What happened?

You are near me I know, you're welcome to it if you fancy it - I just want rid and didn't know what to do with it except ebay!

When can you collect? Or I can drop off...

LOL its a fab tent!! That is what i think of when i think of a big tent though. We are practically neighbours ;) Have you tried freecycle? maybe a hippy type would snap it up?

As for the other tent fucker the seller was very rude because we asked a few questions (the tent was a bit more money than yours!) so we didn't bid. Would love to have thought he was going to have to post to south korea :)

No, I hate freecycle, I always get a nobby email from the mods saying I didn't put my full postcode or somehow broke the copious rules without meaning to.

So I'd far rather just give it away tbh. Oh and it has no pegs.

I can meet you somewhere if you like, to preserve anonymity

If not then I'll just relist the bloody thing...don't think Nec Furniture would want it!

Op, you're probably most aware but there's Quite a lot of info on your eBay page (name, address, etc) no worries if you don't mind about outing or whatnot, but I tend to write horrible things about my Mil so like to stay incognito

My name and address? Where? Or do you mean ebay name and town? I'm fine with that

Thank you though.

okie cokie just me being interfering haha

No it was nice of you. Might ask them to withdraw the linky post just in case. My Mum does read MN sometimes, so you never know!

Ah, bless you - i think i'll pass. What about local scout group? School? facebay?

ImprobableGirl is right though, if i squint i could probably narrow down the road you are in ;)

Dawn has removed the link. Cheers Dawn!

I'll bung it back on or try the second highest bidder.

Maybe it is Kim Jong il / un.....?

Maybe he has a tent fetish?

Just make sure when you list you tick the box for no international postage and also write it again in description. Cancel the sale but you could also contact ebay CS so ensure you don't have any problems with defects for cancellation or anything like that plus you want you selling fees back so you need the cancellation to go smoothly (ie the buyer normally has to agree the cancellation request for this to happen)

oops sorry didn't see second page before posting. Hope it got sorted anyway.