I will pay you - honestly.

[jont]

Carriers have collected and gone. Unknown customer phones wanting goods tomorrow (Saturday) .. OK we can call the carrier back to collect ... can I take your credit card and we can process the order.

Sorry I dont give it out to anyone but I will post you a cheque.

But you want the items tomorrow and the cheque will not arrive or have cleared until next week.

I need the items tomorrow I promise I will send a cheque.

I need a credit card or payment to release the items.

PLEASE - I promise I will send you a cheque

etc etc etc.......

It wasn't a Nigeria scam but she genuinely thought we should trust her as she said she would pay. Items are still on the shelf

[fleetwood]

Personally, I think you'd be daft to do it (not worth the effort), BUT, there is always a Cash On Delivery service.

[Darren B]

Thats got to be one of the best i have heard for a while.

Schools are the ones that drive me made.

School - "We are not going to go bust are we"

Me - "No sir you probably not but dealing with any council or school is like pulling teeth when it comes to paying"

School - "but we are not like that"

Me - "I do not wish to be funny but i have heard the same answer many times before"

School - "We really need it for next week"

Me - "Fax me an official purchase order and i will send you a proforma with our terms, sign this and send i back, please note the terms state strictly 30 days from invoice not the end of next month or the month after"

School - "That's OK all cheques are sent out once a week"

Me forty days later "Dear XYZ I have called a couple of times about you overdue account and this is the second time of writing blah blah blah. If payment is not made within 7 days we shall charge interest as laid out under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998

Normally does the trick

Darren

[runningwolf]

I once had a woman email to complain her goods had not turned up yet.
I emailed to say she had selected cheque as a payment option and we did not normally send goods out until they have sent it to us.
What a trusting world some people must live in.

I noticed yet another order today from my old Friend Abdul in Morocco, his address is always the same with the exception on the country selected, now he appears to be in France, a while ago it was the US, then Turkey and originally Morocco. I had one chargeback already on the guy, a day after the wife had sent a second parcel to him, still waiting for that to get charged back.

Cheers
Paul
www.theorderofinitiative.co.uk

[acompton]

I emailed to say she had selected cheque as a payment option

I always send a pre-emptive e-mail to these orders with a title 'Payment Required' and stating the obvious.

Alan

[jont]

there is always a Cash On Delivery service.

We stopped offering this - customers would rather pay £100.00 on credit card than actually part with £20.00 cash from their back pocket and decline to pay ... we then get charge by the carrier for collecting from us and a return charge to return the items back. Nice.

[completerookie]

a week ago, the previous owner of our house asked if we could supply some simple clips for walking sticks - £1.29 each x 3 - as we "knew" her, we sent them out, and asked if she could "pop a check in the post by return"

in the post this morning was a "nice" letter from that person asking us to "refund her parking ticket" fine because she's just picked up a parking ticket when she parked on yellow lines to go and get a new cheque book so she could pay us.

needless to say, there was NO cheque in the letter either. !

she will, of course, be receiving another "nice" letter asking her to "pay up"

[dscontroller]

Where is Father Christmas?!!!!!

[jont]

refund her parking ticket fine because she's just picked up a parking ticket when she parked on yellow lines to go and get a new cheque book so she could pay us.

That's fantastic

I had a guy who wanted a replacement because he was in a car crash and the item broke - claiming it should have been better packed!!

[buspassjohn]

We had a woman ring up last week to demand arefund becuase the postman had put her package through the letter box and her dog had destroyed it, so it was our fault she wasn't in to control the dog!!

[completerookie]

we had a return that was a quarter of an inch too big for our letter box, so our postie helped us out by slipping it through the kitchen window - I wish I had been there to witness the look on his face as it bounced off the window sill straight into the sink full of greasy pots, pans and water. - It remained there until we returned four hours later.

do I claim off the postie (personally), the post office, the individual for not protecting the returned item for all eventualities or do I accept that occasionally sh.. happens.?

[Duncan Allan]

We had a real doozie with a woman claiming a refund as the watch we sent wasn't set on the right time!

Another was for a bear that was the wrong colour, only one colour option was available for it!

We have also been on the phone to a chap who wanted a colour choice that wasn't available for the item he wanted.

The list continues for refund excuses;

Fabric on the toy the child is allergic to it.

The Orange pot pourri isn't orange enough.

The item sent doesn't fit the box I want to pack it in.

There were no instructions to hang the picture.

We haven't go the next day delivery we requested.
Answer: You are in a remote area and didn't specify that option.

Other daft things:

I was asked for the focal length of novelty plastic magnifying glasses

What's the dollar price in dollars?

Please send me a picture of the pages inside the diary.

There have been so many nothing surprises me these days and astounded there are some I haven't heard yet.
Oh well there is the rest of the day to go.....

Duncan

[freakmode]

Buspassjohn

I read your post last week about the woman and her dog and p#!sed myself laughing.

Had a call from a woman 5 minutes ago purchased a pair of expensive Playboy leather gloves which the postman signed for himself! and shoved them through her letterbox. This woman had a 15 month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier that has destroyed eaten them.

Whats your womans name? is she doing the rounds?

[jont]

Postmen deserve their own special thread - ours took to filling out the "we called but were out" cards before leaving the depot and not bringing the items with him - when I collared him 2 doors down after posting the notification he was ashen faced - even more so when we put in an official complaint against him

[Duncan Allan]

I'm surprised you found someone to complain too!

When I enquired with Royal Mail for an account the 'rep' was rude offensive and belligerent. When I made a complaint about him it took two weeks and was referred to the same person to whom I was complaining.

Needless to say I use a different services.

Although I'm planning a relocation so maybe I'll get a better response in a new area.

Duncan