Unhappy Ebay buyer

I've bought plenty of stuff off ebay and only had the odd case where there's been a problem. But after reading the number of stories of selling on ebay i would never contemplate doing it.

I just can't understand how ebay/paypal can rule against cases where clear evidence suggests the buyer is scammer. That would never happen in an actual court. And unfortunately i don't think many people would have luck taking paypal to court for an unjustified ruling.
 
The problem with Ebay/Paypal is that they're a law unto themselves. There's no independant body or regulator.

I find it a bit stupid that they automatically side with the buyer in most cases because without the sellers, there are no buyers and no fees to collect.

What really needs to happen is a big company, for instance Google, to come along and start up a competitor site, undercutting ebay/paypal & offer proper support to both sellers and buyer.

If that happened ebay would be dead in the water.
 
I just buy from big (Power) sellers really. Never had a problem with them and only had one or two minor issues with independent sellers.
 
Resident said:
The problem with Ebay/Paypal is that they're a law unto themselves. There's no independant body or regulator.

I find it a bit stupid that they automatically side with the buyer in most cases because without the sellers, there are no buyers and no fees to collect.

What really needs to happen is a big company, for instance Google, to come along and start up a competitor site, undercutting ebay/paypal & offer proper support to both sellers and buyer.

If that happened ebay would be dead in the water.
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Unless Google could really beef up its support staff it would be a huge flop. Have you seen their YouTube help centre, it's dire, and that's one of the biggest sites in the world.
 
Moothead2 said:
Unless Google could really beef up its support staff it would be a huge flop. Have you seen their YouTube help centre, it's dire, and that's one of the biggest sites in the world.
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In a way you're right but then Youtube is a different business model.
 
All those people who say "the person said xyz and paypal refunded them" or "they sent back a different item and aypal refunded them", have you tried actually PHONING PAYPAL?

Nearly every problem i've had, any account issues or people trying to rip me off have been sorted over the phone very quickly.
 
chrisstevens said:
I was contemplating splitting my PC and listing on ebay but it seems there is far to many issues like this going on!

I have just sold a spare CPU which sold on a BIN in about 10 minutes! Seems the buyer is addicted to CPUs: http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=AllFeedback&userid=mm_wilson
What I don't understand is how his feedback is 1078 but in the last 12 months he has had 1767 positive feedback! May just be my lack of ebay knowledge though?

I noticed in one of the feedback comments he is a scammer due to chargeback if you don't send recorded.
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Just been checking his postal address out and it appears to be a self storage unit. Has anyone experienced this?
I do specify my listings to UK buyers only and it appears the storage unit buyers tend to use a third party to forward their goods onwards.
 
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