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 Author: BrickCityBuildr View Messages Posted By BrickCityBuildr
 Posted: Aug 12, 2025 13:27
 Subject: Cancelling an unpaid order
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BrickCityBuildr (170)

Location:  USA, Illinois
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As a buyer, is there a way for me to cancel an recently placed unpaid order (ordered
yesterday) because I am no longer comfortable dealing with the seller due to
a ridiculously high shipping amount on the initial invoice? I only see a cancelled
by mutual agreement option. After contact the seller it was re-invoiced with
1/3 of the shipping removed, but his written reply to me makes me not want to
do business with him.
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Aug 12, 2025 13:44
 Subject: Re: Cancelling an unpaid order
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peregrinator (1121)

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In Problem Order, BrickCityBuildr writes:
  As a buyer, is there a way for me to cancel an recently placed unpaid order (ordered
yesterday) because I am no longer comfortable dealing with the seller due to
a ridiculously high shipping amount on the initial invoice? I only see a cancelled
by mutual agreement option. After contact the seller it was re-invoiced with
1/3 of the shipping removed, but his written reply to me makes me not want to
do business with him.

You can only request a cancellation - whether or not the order is cancelled is
totally up to the seller. And some sellers will file an NPB instead of simply
cancelling.
 Author: edk View Messages Posted By edk
 Posted: Aug 12, 2025 14:25
 Subject: Re: Cancelling an unpaid order
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edk (9553)

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In Problem Order, BrickCityBuildr writes:
  As a buyer, is there a way for me to cancel an recently placed unpaid order (ordered
yesterday) because I am no longer comfortable dealing with the seller due to
a ridiculously high shipping amount on the initial invoice? I only see a cancelled
by mutual agreement option. After contact the seller it was re-invoiced with
1/3 of the shipping removed, but his written reply to me makes me not want to
do business with him.

I thought "shipping cost too high" was an option to request an OCR, That
is if the shipping cost was not clearly shown beforehand.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Aug 12, 2025 14:38
 Subject: Re: Cancelling an unpaid order
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SylvainLS (52)

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In Problem Order, edk writes:
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I thought "shipping cost too high" was an option to request an OCR, That
is if the shipping cost was not clearly shown beforehand.

Yes, but the problem is that some sellers want to protect themselves from bad
feedback by preventing the buyer to post one… with an NPB (where’s my bazooka,
I’m afraid a fly could come).
And BL generally doesn’t decide anything in disputes: not paid = NPB, whether
the shipping cost is too high or not.

Fortunately, there’s fewer of the “binding contract!!” arguments—at least on
the forum—, but there’s still NPB-hip-shooters out there.