so the guy in Italy who bid an hour before the item ended - took a whole week to write to me and claimed he was out of town when it ended and just got back. always our favorite excuse. grrrr.
I made one second chance offer and dropped it - told the first bidder (as if I bought his story about being "away") it was still his but he had to pay with paypal right away... 2 days of silence. So I just relisted it. sigh. For your amusement in how machine translations handle what he wrote (I have no idea what mine ended up as.) "Hi you have to excuse me but I/you/they have been out house for almost a week and I am just reentered, if you have sold the second bidder is already sorry I to have made to spend you time and money, hope in the future for being able to conclude another auction. Make then me know if don't have concluded yet. regards xxxx " Despite the lie, I gave him another chance but what I WANTED to write was "so sorry - I don't have to excuse you because i/you/they/ not out of house when auction it over - I see your last bid it was one hour before auction over so you not tell truth. Hope in future you not bid on my auctions" I almost asked one of you guys who are my friends on the list and live in Italy to write a letter for me but the guy has a bunch of negatvie feedbacks a couple of recent neutrals and many lukewarm "positives". Hard to explain to someone however, that with a name like Sanfedele I speak and write no Italian. Just felt like venting. On top of that, Ebay translates the FORM material of a bill I send to Italian but DOESN'T translate what I've written myself to buyer or seller. annsan the weary
