eBay - How much of a liberty is too much.

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Not meaning to start a rant thread, but g'wan anyway :D.


I'm starting to get a little tired of eBayers. Is it just me or is it simply too much hassle these days as a seller? Does it sway too much in the buyers favour?

I've just had a case open as some muppet assumed as I had listed the same item (I had two seperate DDR3 kits for sale), that I was reselling the kit he had already bought.

How much of an idiot do you have to be to not ask first? It just seems to me it's more hassle than it's worth these days. They put your funds on hold as soon as the case opens. Getting tired of the non-sensicle **** types who lack proper communication skills ruining it for everyone. :(

Gumtree? :D.
 
Recently sold on ebay for the first time. Sold about 20 odd items (old videogames £10-~£70) values and it was fine.

Didnt have any troubles, however 10% ebay fees (even on postage makes me sad :( ). But you pay for the amount of traffic the site gets I guess..
 
eBay is a necessary evil if you want to get enough cash for your stuff to make it worth selling, and sell it relatively quickly. If you take photos, list accurately and ship things properly you're unlikely to have a problem.
 
I think this is a case of a Muppet buyer....... who should have asked first......

but saying that I can understand the other point of view.... as a potential scam......

Had you put, in either listing that you had 2 kits for sale but the auction is only one kit???

Tree of the gum is a good way to go as well, I sold something less than 24hrs of it being live.... and yet I had it for 3 weeks selling elsewhere.
people are less likely to pay high amounts due to the protection issue....unless of course It's CASH locally.
 
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I hadn't put I had two kits for sale no, that hadn't crossed my mind. Although the auction was clearly for a single kit. I suppose some peoples brains function differently, however I personally wouldn't of just sprung in and opened a dispute. People are too quick to do it as they feel it's their right no matter what. The system is flawed IMO. Also the fees...the fees...
 
MjFrosty said:
I hadn't put I had two kits for sale no, that hadn't crossed my mind. Although the auction was clearly for a single kit. I suppose some peoples brains function differently, however I personally wouldn't of just sprung in and opened a dispute. People are too quick to do it as they feel it's their right no matter what. The system is flawed IMO. Also the fees...the fees...
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Pretty much.

I sold some Bitcoin hardware a while back, some guy had the cheek to return it on the 44th day of purchase, which in Ebay's book is allowed.

Absolutely nothing wrong with it, and it wasn't sent back complete.

As soon as he opened case, my paypal went into a negative balance, and he won the case even though the item was used, unfaulty, and was not returned complete.


Will never use it again.


p.s. SilentScone from CS?
 
MjFrosty said:
Not meaning to start a rant thread, but g'wan anyway :D.


I'm starting to get a little tired of eBayers. Is it just me or is it simply too much hassle these days as a seller? Does it sway too much in the buyers favour?

I've just had a case open as some muppet assumed as I had listed the same item (I had two seperate DDR3 kits for sale), that I was reselling the kit he had already bought.

How much of an idiot do you have to be to not ask first? It just seems to me it's more hassle than it's worth these days. They put your funds on hold as soon as the case opens. Getting tired of the non-sensicle **** types who lack proper communication skills ruining it for everyone. :(

Gumtree? :D.
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The first question someone tends to ask when I list something is "will you ship to country xyz".- No, if I would then I'd have added international postage options and edited the auction as such.

Gumtree is just full of a different kind of moron.

Strangely though I do have good ebay selling experiences. The last item I sold was speaker cable and the bloke that bought it lives in Southampton. I posted it all properly and he messaged me a couple days later when it arrived saying one banana plug had bent pins and that it was obvious from my pics and packing that it happened in transit by Royal Mail. He said he didn't want to leave negative feedback or cause a scene so would simply enquire with RM about any possible claim he might be able to make. I sent him a higher res photo with exif to prove the date of the photo just in case RM ask for it and that was the last I heard from him.

So even after having an issue you do get good buyers.
 
Yep, I'm not trying to say everyone that uses it is the same or I'd be including myself lol :D.

But definitely my bad experience out weighs the good. It's cheaper, and if they're a little bit disgruntled by something all they have to do is click that little button to irritate the seller. The system needs to change IMO but I'm not disputing there are people on there that have had an overall good experience.

I'm sure to list things well, I just think my downfall might be as it is an auction site after all, I tend to list things fairly cheap so that they do sell, thus attracting all sorts of <censored> types.

Anyway, will definitely be using the market place when selling items of that nature in future! Sod that for a game of soldiers.
 
found facebook selling useful recently.

However Ebay is good at what it does, gets people from across the UK and further to see your item. 10% fees are steep but thats the difference of selling your item of not.
 
On the flip side I bought something a few months back and it hadn't arrived after a week or so. It was only a small purchase and the seller seemed well established so I wasn't concerned about being ripped off however I wanted to let the seller know that I hadn't yet received anything and ask if they could confirm that they had shipped it.

Seems that eBay didn't want me making such simple informal contact with a seller. Every "contact the seller" option I could find was pushing me towards formally raising a case against them for non-delivery which was massive overkill and would have just put the seller on the defensive for no good reason. In the end I got frustrated, didn't bother raising it and waited it out, the item turned up after another week or so.
 
The ebay we all knew and loved is long gone and ebay doesnt want the small sellers any more. Its just a pain in the backside doing anything on there anymore and I was inclined to be a bad person I could get lots of free stuff off there now without much recourse from any sellers
 
My mrs buys and sells things on ebay quite often and finds it rather good fun. Makes a tidy sum sometimes too.

Well she recently listed an item that sold well, so she browsed ebay for auctions of the same thing going cheap. Won one and promptly got a flaming message from the seller telling her she wasn't going to send the item as she was being taken for a mug and was gonna report her to ebay and that she was a silly girl.

Stupid woman just didn't like the fact she was losing out!
 
My Mrs won a truck load of jumbo blocks for our kids a few years back for 99p as she was the only bidder.

Arranged collection as it was collection only for later that day. Got round to the seller house to pick them up and the sellers husband basically told her that he wasn't going to give her the stuff as 99p was too cheap. Like it was our problem HIS wife had listed them too cheaply.

My brother tried to sell his boat and outboard on ebay. he sold it 3 times and each time the (different) buyers never turned up or failed to reply to any contact he tried to make.

Then, on the 4th attempt to sell it, one of the original 3 won it again and kicked off that his winning bid was £400 more expensive than the first time he'd won it and wanted to pay the cheaper price!!

douche.

I could list many experiences like this hence why i never sell on ebay anymore. Too much hassle, too many {insert swear word of choice} buyers.
 
blastman said:
Then, on the 4th attempt to sell it, one of the original 3 won it again and kicked off that his winning bid was £400 more expensive than the first time he'd won it and wanted to pay the cheaper price!!

douche.
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Haha, that is absolutely terrible. What an idiot!
 
Not had any issues selling my second hand, rather smelly (but washed!) cycling kit on it. Wouldn't sell anything of value though.
 
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