I sold some soft toys including a large reindeer on TradeMe. I offered to deliver within town and was asked to drop them off at a second-hand shop. I told the woman the day I was going to drop them off.
I got there to find her dithery husband look helplessly at a cash box with about $7 in it. I nearly offered to come back another day but no, I’d told the woman, who obviously hadn’t passed the message onto her husband, and I expected payment ($25.50). After dithering for a while, he said he’d just paid someone who was still in the shop, someone he knew, it seemed. He asked that man for the money back to pay me then asked the guy to mind the shop while he went to the bank. I was browsing in a corner while he was sorting this out and overhead him say “There’s no money coming in and she keeps buying stuff”. Oh dear.
The guy finally paid me – in fact he overpaid me by $1 so he can’t even count.
I don’t expect that shop to stay open for long…
