Ebay collection in person?

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(I rarely use Ebay and I'm remembering why... )

A guy is selling 50 chairs of which I'd like to buy 4. It's collection in person. Messaged back and forth and agreed a price for the 4. He asked me to formalise the offer but Ebay would only let me make an offer for one. So I put in the price for one chair. He was fine with that and accepted the offer and we have agreed a time and given me the address to collect.

Seems I can go through two ways on Ebay, one seems to take me through to checkout and it's asking me to pay the price for one chair via Paypal etc. which I'm assuming I don't want to do. The second which my friend was saying about is you show the collection barcode to the guy, then pay there and then. This sounds right to me, I don't want to pay until I've seen them. Happy to pay cash, bank transfer or Paypal whatever after that.

It's obviously a restaurant selling up so I'm not too worried about being done over. How do you usually work collection in person deals? I've only ever done straight forward bid, pay, receive

 

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I've asked the seller if he's ok with cash or bank transfer or paypal when I collect on Monday. Can't see any point transferring some now as he only provided a couple of pics and I want to look at them first. Can't see any difference between me using any of those payment methods tbh, at least once I've got the chairs in my hand

I've done a couple cash on collections over the last year both as a buyer and seller. They now give the buyer a QR code and the seller just scans it on the app when the deals been done. It marks it as delivered on the app so stops people scamming by saying the item hasn't been delivered. It's a much better system now as it protects the seller more for cash on collection transactions.

Ah so that's what it's for. So it doesn't really matter what amount of £££ my checkout is saying? He can just scan the QR code to confirm I've taken the item(s)?

 

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what was the end of the story ?

Did you get a QR code and buy one chair cash on collection, and, also, payed privately for the other 3.

He didn't really know what he was doing with the ebay/QR part either so he cancelled the offer/acceptance his side (I confirmed). We negotiated the price for 4, paid cash, and walked out with them. It was all fine, he was there in a shut-down restaurant dealing with a fair amount of people like it was a shop. I only asked because I didn't quite know what the deal was before I turned up. All good.

 

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are these dining chairs to be used a pc chair like a certain millionaire streamer has been doing for over a month?

No idea what you're in about. But they were Emeco Navy 111 (Coke) chairs if you're interested. Worth traipsing across London for at that price.