BobbyBarnhart

re: Marking Items Paid

Go to either Approvals or Auction home page, place your cursor over "Buyers," select and click on "My Invoices" from the drop down menu, select the invoice you paid and mark it so.

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rrraphy

Retired Consultant APS#186030
01 Dec 2014
11:22:51am

re: Marking Items Paid

The seller's options are "Shipped" and "Closed". (there is also the option to re-open the Invoice).
I usually close the Invoices after I know the stamps have been received...so buyers, please acknowledge that you have received the shipment...it requires just one click.
All in all it is a great system!
Thanks. rrr...

 
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cdj1122

re: Marking Items Paid

I know that I have mentioned this before, but when I put some cash in an envelope or for larger amounts, a check, and turn that envelope over to the tender mercies of a postal clerk, I have not "PAID" anything.
I have simply sent a payment.
When said payment arrives and is safely in the hands of the seller, cash might be considered PAID but if a check was used, not so much, at least not until my check is deposited, sent to my bank to be honored and the amount is cleared by the seller's bank. Then the item is PAID.
I do not know in what world a payment in transition is considered PAID.
A similar situation occurs when some form of money order is sent.

Perhaps PayPal users consider a transaction paid for as soon as the buyer uses his account and clicks "send" although I suspect the frequent complaints about funds being withheld or withdrawn after the individuals thought the sale was complete indicates that while paid might comfort the vast majority of PayPal users, the deal is not done until the deal is done. Since I do not use PayPal, I'll skip what the actual process is with them.

Another curious use of terminology is the notice that pops-up that the invoice has been sent which informs the buyer that the seller has mailed the items
While the word "Invoice" can be used to indicate "goods," I think that most people consider invoice to mean that piece of paper (Digital or printed) that lists the identification of the principles, the items involved, the amounts and additional costs for S&H, not the actual goods.
I believe that that icon should read "Items sent" or "Items shipped" to indicate that the actual goods are in transit not a second copy of an invoice that had already been sent and received.

When Stamporama was just a casual club whose members were all friends, refugees from a news-feed, who had known each other (at least in the cyber world) for some time, such casual terminology was of little consequence. But today the club has grown and its activities have greatly expanded. Some people have joined, not for the conviviality and ambiance of a friendly club, but to sell or buy stamps, period.
To some it is a business.
They seldom enter into the discussions unless they run afoul of some club rule that they never bothered to actually read, and in some cases often fail to respond to messages between members.

To me the modifications of the wordings appear to be a simple matter.

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cdj1122

re: Marking Items Paid

Bobby,
This is what I received overnight for items that were won two or three weeks ago and for which payment was sent shortly thereafter.
Mail to and from Canada often takes two to three weeks to be delivered.

So the seller is not sending me the invoice which I already received and sent payment for, he is sending me the items or the shipment.


************************************************
Stamporama Invoice
Dec 22 at 10:28 PM

To

me

Charlie Jensen, invoice number 16 has been shipped.

Please click here to view the invoice.

When you have received the invoice shipment in the mail, you can acknowledge the receipt of the shipment by clicking here.
*******************************************
My first reaction when this happens and there are several weeks involved is to immediately think that somehow I forgot to send the payment and that I look like a dame fool at best, or a deadbeat bidder at worst.
My sometimes drifting memory is partly at fault, two weeks feels like a lifetime.
Then after slipping a nitro tablet beneath my tongue and checking what records I keep, I calm down and reread the note and the message I usually include with the payment. Only then do I realize that I've been skunked again by the use of the word "Invoice" where "shipment" or "items" is intended.
Now I'll admit that this is a small thing in the grand scale of life, but to fusspots like me it seems to be a "Curious" usage.

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AGKING

24 Dec 2014
09:03:39am

re: Marking Items Paid

Tomato tomato
keep on Paiding, Senting, Invoiceing and importantly communicating

Oh and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

May we each find a true rarity next year (dibs) and find comfort in our stamp fellowship

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