Ebay - Moron - Success Story

Earth[Tera].bin · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:48

You must have given him your bank details for the transfer and so inturn agreed to go through with the sale at some point. Ship it with bubble wrap, pay attention to the corners of the sub ( some cardboard on the edges etc ) and ship it. Sure it'll be fine.

Thekwango · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:49

why the actual **** are you wasting time communicating with him and why are you wasting more time fannying around posting about it on the interent. refund the man his money and forget about it. unless your sole intention is to be a dick about it the only normal repsonse is to refund him. fine, send him the speakers and let them get smashed up, then he lodges a complaint with ebay, they refund him and you have to spend more of your time fannying around with parcelforce or whoever trying to claim the money back. you have either far too much time on your hands or your sole intention is to try and screw the guy over.

413x · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:50

Refund full amount. Move on

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:51

Thekwango said:
why the actual **** are you wasting time communicating with him and why are you wasting more time fannying around posting about it on the interent. refund the man his money and forget about it. unless your sole intention is to be a dick about it the only normal repsonse is to refund him. fine, send him the speakers and let them get smashed up, then he lodges a complaint with ebay, they refund him and you have to spend more of your time fannying around with parcelforce or whoever trying to claim the money back. you have either far too much time on your hands or your sole intention is to try and screw the guy over.

he paid by bank transfer - no come back on me

GhostWKD · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:52

Either package them up suitably and post. If you don't think you can do that just refund the £70.

If you package them poorly - whether thats what the chap asked for or not, if they arrive damaged it'll be you having to argue with parcelforce or whoever for the damage etc.

Diddums · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:52

200sols · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:52

Psycho Sonny said:
Also please explain how do you package something like this properly? I need the original box plus polystyrene inserts. Which i don't have.

Its not hard. Bubble wrap, foam sheets heavy duty tape, protect the woofer. But you haven't charged him enough to buy proper packaging so you will ship it poorly and if it gets damaged he 'deserves it'.

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:53

Earth[Tera].bin said:
You must have given him your bank details for the transfer and so inturn agreed to go through with the sale at some point. Ship it with bubble wrap, pay attention to the corners of the sub ( some cardboard on the edges etc ) and ship it. Sure it'll be fine.

He told me he was going to come and collect it. Then apparently got into a car crash after he set out. So now he can't come. Tbh I don't believe this I believe he realised how stupid he is by thinking a 334 1 way trip to 670 mils all around wasn't such a great idea.

He then phoned me 3 times saying he really wanted it and he would pay for postage now. I told him no. Then I said on his head be it after he told me a box from the supermarket would be fine.

He was also racist on the phone. I never referred to his accent or ethnicity or origin yet he asked me if I was Bangladeshi. Yet I have an extremely thick Glaswegian accent. Born and raised here. No idea why he thought I was muslim or from there.

V F · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:53

Psycho Sonny said:
No he told me how he wants them packaged.

He told me he wants them in a box from the supermarket.

Also please explain how do you package something like this properly? I need the original box plus polystyrene inserts. Which i don't have. And I've told him they won't last the journey but he insists on me posting them.

Which again is why i was adamant on collection only. And sold as such. I had at least 5 other people message me asking if I would post and I told them all no. But this guy didn't bother to ask and just bidded anyway.

It's only £10 quid to post with parcelforce. So I'm down to £60. I'll use some tape - £1 and print out a label - 20p. So still roughly £60 minus fuel costs to drop it off.

You don't have any old cardboard in storage? I always have cardboard boxes in storage somewhere, bubble wrap and polystyrene from past delivered items.

Thekwango · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:54

Psycho Sonny said:
he paid by bank transfer - no come back on me

that doesn't answer the rest of my question. why are you wasting so much time fannying round over this. refund him, relist it and move on. unless, as i say, you are intentionally planing to be a dick towards him.

iamdjdz · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:54

Do it in two boxes one for the sub and one for the other speakers. Bubble wrap it and mark as fragile. Should be alright.

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:56

200sols said:
Its not hard. Bubble wrap, foam sheets heavy duty tape, protect the woofer. But you haven't charged him enough to buy proper packaging so you will ship it poorly and if it gets damaged he 'deserves it'.

I told him it was impossible to do and when I told him it would cost £50 to ship he said he knew what it costs to ship items like this and said £25 should be more than enough and £5 for all the inconvenience.

Like I said before I'm dealing with someone who isn't very bright.

He wants it done this way.

2004typer · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:56

413x said:
Refund full amount. Move on

This

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jul 2019 at 12:57

iamdjdz said:
Do it in two boxes one for the sub and one for the other speakers. Bubble wrap it and mark as fragile. Should be alright.

This was something I was thinking about doing. 2 seperate boxes. That way the main item the 25kg sub cannot directly smash the crap out of the rest. It will mean I pay more in postage but less in packaging as I won't need to protect them as much.

V F · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:01

Two boxes in one big box. With the satellites cushioned in bubble wrap in the smaller box.

Diddums · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:01

Ignoring all your stupid decisions so far, at which point did you consider £70 to be enough for postage and the item, and why did you agree to it? Why didn't you ask him to wait while you calculate the actual cost and get back to him?

Feek · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:09

You advertised it as collect only.

Someone bought it and wants it posted.

Surely the next reply should have been "sod off, big nose", cancelled his bid and gone to the second highest bidder.

What am I missing here?

wedrum · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:12

Oh the irony

dirtychinchilla · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:13

Thekwango said:
why the actual **** are you wasting time communicating with him and why are you wasting more time fannying around posting about it on the interent. refund the man his money and forget about it. unless your sole intention is to be a dick about it the only normal repsonse is to refund him. fine, send him the speakers and let them get smashed up, then he lodges a complaint with ebay, they refund him and you have to spend more of your time fannying around with parcelforce or whoever trying to claim the money back. you have either far too much time on your hands or your sole intention is to try and screw the guy over.

He wouldn't be able to call a foreigner a moron that way!

Diddums · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:15