New Pickups, DENIED

[kristan]

I'm glad you were able to find another deal and purchase an animal that you are happy with.

Just my 2 cents...I have been on both sides of this issue. I have had several people flake out on me (after agreeing to a deal and saying that they were going to have a deposit to me within a few minutes) and I have had several people send money the next day, hour, whatever...as promised. I recently had someone tell me that they were going to paypal me money later that night, but it never arrived and I did not hear from them for several days. When they did email me again, they apologized for their absence, and sent money to my account within the hour. I have bought quite a few animals and other goods that I might not have been able to purchase if the seller had not decided to hold them for me. I work about an hour away from my house and periodically go on the internet, but I refuse to use my paypal account there as our computer guy is awful and there are always viruses going around. I'm sure I could do an immediate credit card payment over the phone (with the bigger businesses), but I've never had to. I've never dealt with a seller that wouldn't at least hold the animal until I got home. I can tell you that I would never never never sell out from under someone (which would make me a flaky seller) if we had made a deal. If we agreed that you would send me some money by X time, then I would hold it until X time, always. I also sell my artwork, some of which are fairly cheap ($50 -$100), but others are much more ($250+) and I have always held up my end of the bargain if a buyer and I made a deal regardless of how much I was going to make.
IMO, the existence of flaky buyers does not make it okay to be a flaky seller.