All,
I had a very interesting experience today involving the speakers I put up for sale below. It started as I received a money order from a bank in one of our southern states. I went to my bank this morning to cash it and was told after it was run through both of their scanners that it was a fraudulent document and they would not cash it.
Of course I thought "Crap". I come home and leave the potential buyer a message about the incident and send him an email. In the mean time I give the second in line for the speakers a call and let him know what has happened. He wanted them but was out of the country until yesterday. He asked which member it was and I shared the member's handle and this is key:
He says "That member participated in a group buy with us and there should not be any issue". After that I did some searching on the internet, matched routing numbers between what was posted at the bank's site and the money order and called the bank. I talked to a lady that knew all about it without me volunteering much info. At that point I knew that the buyer's bank and my bank should be talking. I went back to my bank and they called the buyer's bank and I now have the cash and the speakers are on the way to the buyer.
The ink on this particular money order was keeping the scanner from reading it properly. I think there is 2 lessons be learned here:
1. We have a great board with good members that can vouch for one another.
2. It is definitely worth the effort to dig into potentially bad information on item transactions.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
I had a very interesting experience today involving the speakers I put up for sale below. It started as I received a money order from a bank in one of our southern states. I went to my bank this morning to cash it and was told after it was run through both of their scanners that it was a fraudulent document and they would not cash it.
Of course I thought "Crap". I come home and leave the potential buyer a message about the incident and send him an email. In the mean time I give the second in line for the speakers a call and let him know what has happened. He wanted them but was out of the country until yesterday. He asked which member it was and I shared the member's handle and this is key:
He says "That member participated in a group buy with us and there should not be any issue". After that I did some searching on the internet, matched routing numbers between what was posted at the bank's site and the money order and called the bank. I talked to a lady that knew all about it without me volunteering much info. At that point I knew that the buyer's bank and my bank should be talking. I went back to my bank and they called the buyer's bank and I now have the cash and the speakers are on the way to the buyer.
The ink on this particular money order was keeping the scanner from reading it properly. I think there is 2 lessons be learned here:
1. We have a great board with good members that can vouch for one another.
2. It is definitely worth the effort to dig into potentially bad information on item transactions.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!