Yet another eBay non-payment

thebennyboy · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:41

I have sold yet another item (a old PC case) on Ebay and the buyer has yet again failed to make any attempts at payment, isn't replying to my messages either. Getting SO fed up with eBay, nothing but issues. Kinda have no option to use them as there is no alternative!!

/rant

roll on MM access at 1,000 posts

Iceman · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:43

Typical Ebay, so good in many ways. So bad in others!!

russell664 · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:44

I avoid Ebay where I can, so many scammers and people not doing what they should be.

Diddums · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:47

Ebay is full of idiots and chancers. I only use it for tat lIke phone covers.

I shudder at the thought of an RMA.

tom_e · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:49

Was this little rant just to get you one post closer to the holy grail?

thebennyboy · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:52

tom_e said:
Was this little rant just to get you one post closer to the holy grail?

I wish. Genuinely totally fed up with eBay.

Flying_Hellfish · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:52

tom_e said:
Was this little rant just to get you one post closer to the holy grail?

Busted.

russell664 · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:53

542 more to go!

Pixel · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:59

Whilst scammers and time wasters are a lot rarer on the MM, it isn't exactly a seller's paradise. Expect to sell things for less money than you'd get on ebay; after all you're selling to a much more limited (and knowledgeable) userbase.

Flying_Hellfish · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:07

On the flip side, less hassle and no fees.

But yes, if the item doesn't have an audience it won't sell, whereas on eBay there's always someone willing to bid.

Midlife Crisis · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:16

ebay is becoming a pain to sell stuff on at the best of times, after you have paid all the fees sometimes it just is not worth the hassle. I sold a 24 inch CRT monitor on there once, in the listing it said collection only, and of course UK only, what do I get bidders from Lithuania and the likes FFS, it sold to a bloke in Edinburgh in the end [I am in the Midlands] he supplied the courier must have cost him 3 times as much as the old CRT did.

mrk · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:40

There's always Gumtree.

porushinobu · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:43

or local ads using feces-book i mean facebook

Diddums · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:43

mrk said:
There's always Gumtree.

I once showed interest in a car in Essex on Gumtree. Caught a train down there, met the dude at the train station, he took me for a drive and offered me the wheel. Before driving I wanted to have a look at the car and said so.

It had HGF, two punctures (I could literally hear the tires deflating as I stood next to them) and the rear discs were spray painted, and still had the wet pain on them.

When I said I'd think about it, he hopped in and drove off, leaving me stranded in the middle of bloody nowhere. It was a long walk but a lesson well learned.

porushinobu · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:44

Diddums said:
I once showed interest in a car in Essex on Gumtree. Caught a train down there, met the dude at the train station, he took me for a drive and offered me the wheel. Before driving I wanted to have a look at the car and said so.

It had HGF, two punctures (I could literally hear the tires deflating as I stood next to them) and the rear discs were spray painted, and still had the wet pain on them.

When I said I'd think about it, he hopped in and drove off, leaving me stranded in the middle of bloody nowhere. It was a long walk but a lesson well learned.

what a ****

mrk · 10 Feb 2015 at 15:56

Diddums said:
I once showed interest in a car in Essex on Gumtree. Caught a train down there, met the dude at the train station, he took me for a drive and offered me the wheel. Before driving I wanted to have a look at the car and said so.

It had HGF, two punctures (I could literally hear the tires deflating as I stood next to them) and the rear discs were spray painted, and still had the wet pain on them.

When I said I'd think about it, he hopped in and drove off, leaving me stranded in the middle of bloody nowhere. It was a long walk but a lesson well learned.

Sorry but this is actually very funny

Cosimo · 10 Feb 2015 at 16:05

Diddums said:
I once showed interest in a car in Essex on Gumtree. Caught a train down there, met the dude at the train station, he took me for a drive and offered me the wheel. Before driving I wanted to have a look at the car and said so.

It had HGF, two punctures (I could literally hear the tires deflating as I stood next to them) and the rear discs were spray painted, and still had the wet pain on them.

When I said I'd think about it, he hopped in and drove off, leaving me stranded in the middle of bloody nowhere. It was a long walk but a lesson well learned.

Awe Diddums...

Diddums · 10 Feb 2015 at 16:08

Screw you guys

In hindsight it's pretty funny. I couldn't even get angry at the time either, I just looked at the situation from an outsider's point of view and laughed at how naive and stupid I was.

Didn't help that he looked nothing like Del Boy!

NooBish AbbZ · 10 Feb 2015 at 16:10

Pixel said:
Whilst scammers and time wasters are a lot rarer on the MM, it isn't exactly a seller's paradise. Expect to sell things for less money than you'd get on ebay; after all you're selling to a much more limited (and knowledgeable) userbase.

Dammit, your signature made me think I had a mark or something on my monitor...

cyber69 · 10 Feb 2015 at 17:53

Better to have a non paying bidder than to send the case off to the seller and then to get messed about. At least you will get your seller fee's back eventually.