When does half.com pay

I say this because you have to email, email, email until you are sure you are getting what you expect. Always upgrade shipping whenever possible; media mail is great - sometime in march when nobody is using it! At the beginning of the semester and christmas they take full advantage of their 8 week shipping window. I always check half. It is not uncommon to sell them your book that they need. Sought a book and they showed one copy, overpriced for a used book and no free shipping.

I kept some reference books, professional texts, and literature specific to my area of practice, but some of my sells actually generated a profit.

I only had one bad experience, an unscrupulous dealer who shall remain un-named, but even that turned into a win because the book is one of the most fundamental texts used in my profession, and it was still cheaper than any other offerings.

A buyer ordered two very large, heavy books Bibles from me and I promptly shipped them to the address provided by the buyer which was a PO Box. The order was received at the PO Box and the recipient refused the order. The order was then returned to me by the USPS. It continues to state that the buyer is responsible for additional shipping to another address if the package is refused at the first address. That was my situation. I received an initial email from the buyer demanding a full refund stating the item was not received.

That was a total lie and the tracking number proved they were lying. The email was typed in all capital letters and using an angry tone with the language. The buyer threatened me with negative feedback and a buyer claim if I didn't issue a full refund. As many of you sellers know, the shipping cost exceeded the minimal shipping allowance provided by Half. Therefore, I was not intending to do a complete refund to a buyer whom was angry, insulting, and accused me of stealing from them, committed buyer extortion practices and did leave two negative feedback comments on my seller ID.

Ebay did remove the feedback from my account due to the buyer's extortion practices. The buyer, in my opinion, had an agenda to begin with and Half. I have called eBay numerous times due to this transaction as I have an unblemished record since with both Half. The eBay representatives know and agree that Half. We, as sellers, strive to ship our materials as quickly as possible and we appreciate our buyers.

Had this buyer approached us in a manner consistent with the Half. Our items are as described and our intent is to provide the expected delivery service in every transaction. What a disgrace! Any good? This site does not care about sellers. They cancelled our selling account after 10 years of long standing good history, because of a supposed shipping violation; they never explained the violation even though we requested explanation several times.

Only possible communication with them is via email they call themselves "an online company" ; the online customer representative was very rude and not helpful, ignored all our questions or concerns and simply kept referring us to their "help" pages. Since half. This blocks seller activity also on the other site, and doesn't even let you use the account for buying any product; but half. The eBay people tried to help but they could not do anything about the already blocked account.

On top of this half. So upon cancelling an account like they did to us, they place your pending payments on a day hold period, which we doubt is legal. After 60 days when you try to reclaim the frozen funds they come up with another list of hurdles and "account identity validations" in order to release your money.

In our case we did not have any extra identity validations to do since our account had current up-to-date information, so then the customer representative simply stopped responding to our email requests for payment. There is no way to contact them via phone. We had to call ebay for advise, they provided a phone number for half.

If you intend to sell with this company beware of their questionable and unfair practices, try to take your business somewhere else. Thank you. Never had any problems and in case a seller was unable To ship an order, always an immediate refund. I find books a bit cheaper here than Amazon. Rated by Leo P. History of this type of deceit also on Amazon.

Stop this guy! The seller has not responded to any of my questions. There is not customer service and no one really seems to care. I would be spending literally hundreds on this site if they would just ship them to me!! As it is they'll get nothing and I'll go else where. It's the same database that feeds eBay's pre-filled information in the same categories. There are no listing fees, but you do have to pay Half. Instead of a buyer paying you directly, Half.

Previous page. Table of content. Next page. Figure When your top executives NO experience in the field - all you can do is raise fees. At least though eBay is consistant - the stupidity rolls on like theres no tomorrow.

And yes - they did it 'cause they saw Amazon do it This is just Ebay's way of saying "Merry Christmas" to it's sellers. These decisions have to be being made by Amazon insiders working at ebay.

What other excuse is there? It's like Boeing handing out pink slips 90 days prior to the Christmas shutdown so they don't have to pay you for the 2 weeks they are shut down. Ah, sudden and steep price hikes, the brainchild of "idea men" with no ideas. Can't deliver traffic, the most basic responsibility of a marketplace? Just soak anybody that does manage to make a sale in spite of your glaring failure!

Few years ago, went to work 8am Monday, December They wave at us 5 people in the office , go in his office, close the door. Phone rings, receptionist answers phone. It's the Mayor's office. She wants to verify that our plant is shutting down today. Police Chief then called the Mayor. Result: we knew what was going on before they got out of boss's office to tell us.

On December This kind of carp has been going on for years. The "Company" never cares for the peons, just the money to be made. None of us here expects anything different from eBay. I started my on line selling career on half. In those days when you signed up to sell they sent you a package of shipping supplies. Somewhere along as ebay took over the management of half, I left. At this point it has been so long since I had heard of half.

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