Soldato
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Hey all, welcome to another ebay thread
So I spied a rather nice guitar on ebay, and messaged the seller with a few questions - mostly stuff to do with the condition of the guitar and a few details of how it would be packaged and shipped. The item page suggested that the seller would be willing to do a deal on a hard guitar-case if bought at the same time as the guitar, but this would need to be discussed in messages before the purchase was made, I asked about this as well because I figured if they could do a cheap hard-case it would be more secure in-transit.
Anyhow, the guy replied with the answer to most of the questions, but then said for the pricing and deal with the case I'd have to contact the email in the listing. When I got a reply from there it suggested that if I wanted to pay their shop direct with Paypal I could have an extra £20 off the price of the guitar, or an extra £10 on top of that even if I wanted to pay by direct bank-transfer. My instincts and a quick google suggested that doing either of these would not be a good idea (due to the lack of buyer protection for transactions outside of ebay). So I messaged back basically saying thanks for the offers but I'm happy with the original buy-it-now price and I just completed the transaction through ebay as normal.
What do you guys make of this? Could it be genuine and the seller was just trying to avoid ebay and/or paypal fees? Or should I be worried? The ebay account has about 3,200 feedback and absolutely 100% positive including several positive feedback comments mentioning receipt of guitars specifically... Obviously by going through ebay + paypal properly I should have full protection from anything too serious...
TL;DR buying a guitar, seller tried to get me to complete transaction outside of ebay, which I of course did not do, but should I be wary of the seller now anyway?
Interested to hear what you think...
Rufus
So I spied a rather nice guitar on ebay, and messaged the seller with a few questions - mostly stuff to do with the condition of the guitar and a few details of how it would be packaged and shipped. The item page suggested that the seller would be willing to do a deal on a hard guitar-case if bought at the same time as the guitar, but this would need to be discussed in messages before the purchase was made, I asked about this as well because I figured if they could do a cheap hard-case it would be more secure in-transit.
Anyhow, the guy replied with the answer to most of the questions, but then said for the pricing and deal with the case I'd have to contact the email in the listing. When I got a reply from there it suggested that if I wanted to pay their shop direct with Paypal I could have an extra £20 off the price of the guitar, or an extra £10 on top of that even if I wanted to pay by direct bank-transfer. My instincts and a quick google suggested that doing either of these would not be a good idea (due to the lack of buyer protection for transactions outside of ebay). So I messaged back basically saying thanks for the offers but I'm happy with the original buy-it-now price and I just completed the transaction through ebay as normal.
What do you guys make of this? Could it be genuine and the seller was just trying to avoid ebay and/or paypal fees? Or should I be worried? The ebay account has about 3,200 feedback and absolutely 100% positive including several positive feedback comments mentioning receipt of guitars specifically... Obviously by going through ebay + paypal properly I should have full protection from anything too serious...
TL;DR buying a guitar, seller tried to get me to complete transaction outside of ebay, which I of course did not do, but should I be wary of the seller now anyway?
Interested to hear what you think...
Rufus