Lay away purchase


Got an interesting question from a member (on another well known auction site) that I've never seen before. This person has 100% good feedback there and more buying than selling.

"...if i could make payments to you on this, there's just no way I could aford this all at once. if for any reason I had to back out , I would forfit all money paid to date and you keep the machine, I've never let any one down yet and I buy this way a lot. I could pay as much as 250.00 a month"

It would take 7-8 months to be paid up. I don't mind the wait but not sure how to go about it and if there could be any repercussions to me.
markpao

Showing 1 response by bander

I was lucky enough to find a sellar who was willing to accomadate me. We both have quite a bit of positive feed back and we spoke on the phone more than once as well as communicating via e-mail. He received more than 50% of the cost up front which probably made the sellar's decision easier. No paypal was involved. I've never asked anyone for a lay away plan before and I probably won't again but I just couldn't pay all at once. I'm grateful to the sellar since he could have sold it to someone else. The item will take a relatively short time of 2 months to be paid off. The agreement was that the sellar would keep all the money in the event of anything happending to hinder the sale.