[Bagman]

I rarely sell on here but buy a fair bit. Most of the time I pay immediately put am often away from home and via phone I see items I like so am unable to pay till I get to my home computer (I don't do PayPal via the phone). If this is so I always inform the seller of this before agreeing the deal and it is up to them to take it or not with no hard feelings either way. Only once I've had an issue, bought a very expensive item on a business trip with the help of a bottle of Zinfandel. The cold light of day gave me second thoughts so I let the guy know immediately and felt bad about it ever since.

Unless of some accident there are very few reasons why they should not know when they are going to pay and contact you about it. After this length of time he is either ignoring you hoping you'll just accept the deal is dead without letting you know or something has happened in which case he probably has bigger fish to fry and will accept that a long time without contact will lose the sale.

The 24 hour thing is spot on, then a polite message after that time saying why is perfect. I'd like to know what you were originally planning but then you probably wont want to put it on here.