Another Ebay thread....yeah hate me!

To save face message buyer that phone has been destroyed by your dog, have fees returned, and remember the first rule of owning an iphone, that you can never sell it on ebay.

Or list as cash on collection only and advertise for £10 below a similar one, people are willing to do irrational things like drive 50miles to collect an iphone if they think they are getting bargain Apple products :P
 
wingman said:
There's different ways you can go about closing the transaction, go through PayPal to push through the refund first of all (buyer will get 100% back, not the reduced amount you received) and then go through eBay on your "My eBay" page and navigate to the sale. There will be an option to cancel it through there.
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I must be blind but i dont see an option to cancel the sale, ive sent the funds back and sent him a note but not seeing an option to send him a cancellation notice :/
 
You should have just transferred the paypal funds to your bank account as soon as they were in your account. That way if the buyer did try and scam you, you'd still have the money and paypal wouldn't be able to do much.

You may as well stick it on gumtree and get cash for it.
 
Apologise to the buyer and say while packing the phone you dropped and broke it, then cancel the transaction and hopefully he'll mutually agree.

You can set your eBay auctions to not allow bidders that don't mean certain criteria (like number of feedback) so I'd suggest doing that next time.
 
I sold my phone recently, and while it wasn't a £300 phone, it was still my most expensive sell on ebay so far. I only accepted bids from users who had plenty of feedback, when i say that i mean 100%. :p

I know Ebay users have to start somewhere, but i read that phones are scammed a lot either by both sellers and buyers. So my common sense wanted someone with lots of feedback for a safe sale.

I think the OP did the right thing, but i hope the buyer is understanding and doesn't give bad feedback.
 
I told a white lie and blamed my daughter spilling water on the phone before packing it, ill go to hell for that one :D refunded the money and set up a cancel transaction with ebay, not heard a peep from the guy.
 
Firstly you should have set buyer requirements if you did not want to send it to low feedback buyers.

Secondly eBay will refund you the final value fee if you have refunded them and they have rejected the request. Just go on live chat/email them/ring them.

Thirdly they will not remove negative feedback because you felt a bit worried. You have more chance of getting refund by paypal for sending the item and it turning out to be a scam. Actually you have more chance of winning the lottery than getting a negative removed.

That is all :)
 
i always wary of ebay, ive never had any problems personally, but i wont buy or sell anything with a value above about £50, seen too many people burned
 
Castor said:
I told a white lie and blamed my daughter spilling water on the phone before packing it, ill go to hell for that one :D refunded the money and set up a cancel transaction with ebay, not heard a peep from the guy.
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Why did you not just transfer the money to your account and when it hit, send the phone?
 
iPhone? eBay? Forget it!

Find somewhere else to sell it. Probably small ad in the paper and only take cash for it.

I buy and sell plenty on eBay but theres no way on earth I would even think about selling an iPhone there.

wingman said:
You'll probably get a negative feedback and a 10% charge OP.
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Thats the least thing I'd be worried about. Depending on how much you sell annually if your selller stars drop below 4.7 you're at risk of being banned from selling.
 
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Frodo1805 said:
Why list an item to sell on eBay if you have no intention of selling? You're the timewaster.
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+1

melvis said:
i always wary of ebay, ive never had any problems personally, but i wont buy or sell anything with a value above about £50, seen too many people burned
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Examples?

A2Z said:
Why did you not just transfer the money to your account and when it hit, send the phone?
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I can't understand why people believe there is a risk. Follow the above and you're fine.
 
Castor said:
I do agree with Mrk and wingman that people do have to start somewhere on there, i guess the big red flag to me is he didnt even make an offer, he just paid the buy it now price, that to me seems strange?
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I thought you had to have a buy/sell minimum requirement before you could use the offer option?
 
Well its all done and dusted, buyer agreed to cancel and not long after their account promptly disappeared, make of that what you will.

I can appreciate people saying i was the one wasting time, i wasnt happy about cancelling something i agreed to sell but my gut feeling wouldnt leave me alone about it hence me creating the thread for advice. At the end of the day i'd rather be a timewaster and still have my phone/money than get ripped off :)
 
Castor said:
Well its all done and dusted, buyer agreed to cancel and not long after their account promptly disappeared, make of that what you will.

I can appreciate people saying i was the one wasting time, i wasnt happy about cancelling something i agreed to sell but my gut feeling wouldnt leave me alone about it hence me creating the thread for advice. At the end of the day i'd rather be a timewaster and still have my phone/money than get ripped off :)
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Good result. Fair play to buyer not being a dick about it.

May I ask, what do you think would've happened, should you have sent the item, and the buyer was a "scam"?

Bearing in mind that the money is already in your account, and you sent the item signed for, recorded, and completely covered?
 
To be honest maybe 'ebay paranoia' got the better of me, i had visions of "Box arrived empty" or "phone is not as advertised" and sent back different phone/empty box. Plus the dreaded 'paid for with stolen/cloned card'.

I know the guy didnt give me any cause to think like this, just signing up on the day he bought it made me wary, unjust or not its how i felt.

but hey we are on this planet to learn so if anyone want to chime in here with ways of protecting yourself as a seller/buyer then go ahead, or create a thread about it, i've seen enough "Am i being scammed?" threads on here to know there are plenty of people who dont know how they are protected on the Bay :)
 
Castor said:
To be honest maybe 'ebay paranoia' got the better of me, i had visions of "Box arrived empty" or "phone is not as advertised" and sent back different phone/empty box. Plus the dreaded 'paid for with stolen/cloned card'.

I know the guy didnt give me any cause to think like this, just signing up on the day he bought it made me wary, unjust or not its how i felt.

but hey we are on this planet to learn so if anyone want to chime in here with ways of protecting yourself as a seller/buyer then go ahead, or create a thread about it, i've seen enough "Am i being scammed?" threads on here to know there are plenty of people who dont know how they are protected on the Bay :)
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I utterly agree, it's a learning experience and I wanted to get an insight from how another seller feels. In truth, I unjustly roll my eyes when a virgin bids and or wins one of my items. But I still treat the transaction the same if they pay etc.

There's a great element of trust in eBay, but I think both parties are "safe" so long as certain precautions are put in place. In future ensure you place a caveat in the original setup of the eBay ad to ensure that virgins can't bid or should contact you prior to help advise if genuine.

I just hate to see too much money go in eBays general direction. Luckily this time, too much didn't.
 
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