Yawns - for my benefit? Is that how you see me - a boring old you know what?
Sorry if I am - I'll go back to sleep, then. (Shrug shoulders). Thanks for letting my know, though. Your honesty is very much appreciated. 
Maybe it's not worth posting anything up any more. Goodbye - have a nice evening.
It's not just you fred, it happens to everyone, and could be for genuine reasons that you wouldn't know about, such as illness, an accident, urgent domestic issues, having to go away for a bit without notice, bank card details needing changing, problems after the ebay hacking - who knows what people have to deal with in their lives that may be a priority at the time. Your conclusions about their reasons may not be correct and they may not be lying or deliberately being difficult or a timewaster as you call them. I would give them the benefit of the doubt and take care to be polite. If you have to open a case at least you have that option.
On the other side of the coin I sold a pair of suitcases and the harassment came for his side - I received five emails asking me when he could pick it up. Did you reply before the further emails arrived? Perhaps he thought they hadn't got to you. At least he was keen to offload you of the items he won and didn't keep you waiting for ages.
If everyone posted threads about minor irritations with buyers or sellers on the discussion boards, they would fill up. Still, at least the boards would move along at a pace like the good old days 
True, very true. I sent them an email telling them that I am prepared to wait until Sunday, but that if I did not hear anything by then - a full eight days, I would assume they were no longer interested in the item. EBay would then contact them direct and give them a further four days before contacting me and giving me the option to relist or to pull out altogether. That would have given them THIRTEEN DAYS to do something about it - doh! 
Still fresh in my mind and still smarting over it was when I was strung along by some young girl claiming her credit card had been cloned, and that th'ed pay me in a couple of weeks. I bought it, because it seemed credible. It was only after I went into her feedback did I find that she was buying a string of other stuff from before she bought my item and received positive feedback up to two days before the last date, with no mention of any problems, so obviously she'd been stringing me along. I don't like being made a fool of. I relisted and sold the items seven days lated with an instant payer and positive feedback.
As you say, it is a problem rather more common than I can imagine.- I was just trying to bring up a new subject.
If you want to sell things easily why not list them as BINs with immediate payment required?
That way you decide how much you want and people can't 'buy' it unless they actually pay for it 
Now you have 3 free auto relists available you can just list them and leave them.
I use BINS, I have no reason not to, and I sell a fair amount that way.
Private sellers use tem as well as businesses, the latter actually have them listed with multiple items which private sellers tend not to do. I try to avoid bootsales because of the mentality of the buyers wanting everything for nothing and the rudeness, never mind avoiding the sellers with vans full of shop stock and the ones selling hundreds of used bikes which I find rather worrying.
You are missing out if you have anything worth selling. I am not a business, but I do have a lot of stuff in a small house and I don't need most of it. If you ignore people with BINS you are also avoiding buying from the underdog because now we get 20 free listings and are able to choose auction or BIN I have noticed a lot more people like me who are trying to get some pennies for their unwanted stuff are using BIN format because it doesn't cost extra at the moment.
You really do need to keep up with what is going on you know
