Affiliate Marketing blog by James Little

I hate being on the wrong side of someone, I really do, however it seems to of happened yet again.

Someone I considered a friend was asking if anyone was able to put something on ebay for her. I responded (as a jest) that I would put it on for half the profit received. This person accepted and thanked me, but in reality I was just going to give her the full money minus the ebay/paypal/postage fees.

The auction finished last week, and I spent all of my lunch hour last Wednesday in the post office queuing to send the parcel off. I was busy all day on Thursday but first thing in Friday morning I logged into the even reliable paypal and requested that the money in my paypal account be sent to my normal bank account, allowing me to give the money to my friend.

Anyhow – not long after I had submitted the request to paypal I was asked by her if I had the money yet – she knew I had sent the parcel and I can only assume thought that these things are a lot quicker than they are. I informed her at the time that the money was being sent from paypal to my account and I would be able to give her the cash next week. I told her it could take up to a week but is generally about 3 working days.

Yesterday, first thing in the morning I was asked again if I had the money yet. I explained (again) that I was still waiting for it to hit my account but on the day it comes though she would be paid the money she is owed from the sale. This friend then starts to tell me how pissed off she is and to be honest it was all quite upsetting. I’m an emotional person anyhow, so after being told how much I’ve pissed someone off (when it still seems to me I’ve done nothing wrong) and how this friend will never ask me for a favour again, I had to take a walk round the block, nearly in tears, just to sort out my head.

I offered an alternative – I told her how to setup a paypal account (which would only take 5 minutes tops), and said I could send her across the money via that method. I was told that she had no time for this. I even printed off a sheet of paper with the transaction confirmation which said how long it can take, but without reading it she threw it in the bin and shouted that she didn’t “need printouts” like this as she “didn’t have the time”.

It’s now a day later – I’m surprised that I haven’t yet again been asked if the money has arrived yet, but I’m still feeling shit over it. I don’t think I’ll bother offering favours to people again when they can be so ungrateful. The only thing I could have done is said at the time that I was only joking with the half the profits thing (which is £11 incidentally), but even after I told this friend that I would be giving her the full money she was still in an arse of a mood with me.

Answers on a postcard if you can work out how to resolve this!

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