Sometimes I have given stupidly high FPO's to watchers as I just want them to go away due to them being serial watchers who have no intention of buying the item regardless of the price, be it 50 cents or $50. These are watchers that have been watching every time an item is listed for years. Even after they have been blacklisted for being stalkers, they still watch. Yes, I treated them as genuinely interested buyers to begin with, but after they didn't respond to FPO's and continued watching, it got old very fast. I have just complained to Trade Me once again regarding a certain watcher that...

Hi Linda - I'm on my fourth over a 2 year period and hoping it stays working as I have run out of options   Linda a few seconds ago I now have 2 email addresses that will not receive any trademe emails, waiting for to try the 3RD email now

Gary - All my auctions are buy now, but I do offer FPO's also. Seems the FPO's don't insist on a ping payment immediately. It is amazing the questions (demands) that get asked after purchase but before payment -  change payment option, change shipping, combine auctions for no extra shipping etc, want to collect when I have no pickup. I even had one person ask for payment by 'other' to be an option - not cash, bank or ping.

I changed all my items to Ping only, after struggling to get payments from buyers using internet banking. Now I am getting buyers refusing to pay by ping AFTER making their purchase. There should be a way that the trade cannot progress (including on FPO's) if payment is not made on a Ping only listing. It is so frustrating and a time waster trying to get payment out of some people.

Yep, this is happening to me again also and I have a lot of auctions about to close. I had this happen a few months back and went through all the rigmarole of checking the TM addresses and ensuring they were whitelisted etc. Even changed email address again, but that hasn't worked this time.