Dear Jason R from eBay

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: Hello, Thank you for taking the time to write to us. My name is Jason and I understand that you'd like to know why you're still required to paydespite the buyer did not pay for the item. I appreciate the time for letting us know about the situation. Let meclarify this matter for you. I'd like to inform you that listing fees are always charged regardlessof whether or not the item sells. These fees cover the cost the space your listing occupies while it is listed on eBay and any optional features that you use for the item. For this reason, you are still responsible for the listing fees even in situations where the winning bidder does not complete the transaction. However, the Final Value Fee is refundable and you can file an Unpaid Item dispute to claim that fee. You can find more information about Unpaid Item process by following thelink below: http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/tp/unpaid-item-process.html To make a one time payment to your account, please follow these steps: 1. Click on 'Site Map'2. Scroll down to the 'Selling' column 3. Click on 'Make a Payment to Your Account' 4. You may be asked to sign in 5. On the new page, it will give you information on how to pay with your credit card, direct debit, PayPal, or mail a cheque or money order Once payment for the last invoiced amount has been received, you will beable to start selling on eBay again. For payments due date, please refer to this link: http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/account/payment-due-date.html I believe I have answered your questions. If you have any other questions in the future, please don't hesitate to contact us. Warm regards, Jason R.

eBay Customer Support Team

Thanks Jason,




I will pay when you can tell me what is wrong with this sentence ...




'I understand that you'd like to know why you're still required to pay despite the buyer did not pay for the item.'




That sentence is gramatically incorrect. The correct way of saying it would be:


'I understand that you'd like to know why you're still required to pay, despite the buyer not paying for the item.'




Or:


'I understand that you'd like to know why you're still required to pay, despite the buyer not having paid for the item.'

Or:


'I understand that you'd like to know why you're still required to pay, even though the buyer did not pay for the item.

It seems of late that more and more people are neglecting punctuation, spelling and grammatical rules.  There are three common mistakes which upset me most.  I’ll detail them below.

1. You’re / Your:

Very often, I hear people say things like ‘Your funny.’  I’m generally left waiting in anticipation for the second part of the sentence, but it never comes.  This sentence would be correct if it was ‘Your funny monkey makes me laugh’, for example.  ‘You’re doing very well at this lesson’ is another correct use of the word.  It’s an abbreviation of the words ‘you are’, did you know that?  An apostrophe in a word can denote the removal of letters and the conjunction of words, it can also denote possession when followed by an ‘s’, the only exception of that rule is ‘its’, which does not follow that rule, this is because we would not want to confuse that with ‘it’s’ as in ‘it is’.

2. There / They’re / Their:

There are three very different meanings for this word and they are quite easily remembered:

‘There’ refers to place ‘Look over there, I see a nudist beach colony!’ is a correct use of the word.

‘They’re’ is another abbreviation of ‘they are’.  ‘They’re not wearing anything at all, how vulgar!’ is one example of the correct usage of this word.

‘Their’ refers to collective possession, ‘You’d think that a nudist beach colony would be better suited on a beach with less surf, then their genitalia would have less chance of attracting sand’ is a sentence which uses this word correctly.

3. To / Too / Two:

These three words are often used incorrectly.  I’ll put each in a sentence as part of a dialogue for you:

‘It’s such a shame that Derek is going to be executed via lethal injection, I don’t think he was given a fair trial’.

‘Bradley is going to be executed too, however I’m pretty sure he did it, how many did they say he killed?’

‘Two.’

There is also confusion amongst some people with the correct usage of 'where', 'we're', and were.  I'm not going to go into details with examples of those, I feel I've taught you enough already today and I wouldn't want your little head to implode.

I will pay the bill I was requested to pay, however, I'd like to be compensated for the online lesson I have just provided.
Please credit my account with $27.50.


I'm glad to be of service,






Kind Regards,




Andy Leonard