Re: (idm) (hopefully not) another possible bad trader/seller?

From Nick Turner
Sent Fri, Apr 16th 1999, 10:19

Hiya,

Regarding
"...a bunch of records for sale...did
> anybody else buy anything
> from her? if so, did you get your stuff?"


I didn't buy any records from said person, but thought i'd run this by
as an idea.
We run an on-line record shop (smallfish.co.uk), that is about to have
a BBS on it, and we had a thought.  It seems that quite a few people
are trading/swapping stuff, and occasionally money gets sent and
records don't arrive or vice versa...which is not good.   Given that we
are posting out tunes alot, and therefore are going to the post-office
alot...blah, blah, blah...
Cut to the chase...we were thinking we could act as a middleman....we
could get seller to send the tunes here, and the buyer to send the
money here, and only when both have arrived, would we then send the
money to the seller, and the tunes to the buyer.
We wouldn't charge anything (except postage...which is where the
potential problem lies.  europe is cheap, the ROW is more
expensive)...and if either party didn't fullfill their side of the
bargain, then we would return the tunes/money to the relevant parties.
Anyway, just a thought, but we'd appreciate any feedback on it.

cheers,

...the fish


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