Ebay woes

I hate fb Market place.

It's like a **** version of the MM

Great for buyers. Bad for sellers.

It is good for getting rid of tat. A crappy old mattress I'd have to take to the tip. Someone will take it for free!

But so so many time wasters.

I've sold 100s off items on ebay and never had a scam.
Even sold a few computer components and things upwards of 1k
 
potatolord said:
The advantage of Facebook marketplace is that the buyer has to pick up the item and cash is exchanged (in my experience).
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You can also scope out a potential buyer (or seller) by looking at their FB profile, which can often give clues as to whether they're a bit of a scumbag or not. To be honest I've not used FB marketplace much, however I did recently sell my other half's car on there after failing on both Ebay and Gumtree, and got a far better response.
 
I sold an Acer monitor recently, pictures showing it working etc. Week later seller says its faulty doesnt work, fuzzy pink picture. He opened a case. I asked several times for proof of the issue and didnt respond. So I then asked about damage to the item to see if the box was damaged in transit. He sent me a picture of the box with a puncture hole in. So fair enough I accepted the return, it was insured post. Monitor turned up over a week later. No puncture hole in box. Checked photo again definitely there looked real. Checked photo against the box and definitely no hole in it. Thought it was odd. Luckily I had recorded the serial number. So I looked at the monitor, different serial number. Posted in the case that I have not had the same monitor back with photos of the original serial number, and photo of the monitor sent back compared with the serial label on the box showing it was different. So I got my box back but different monitor.

So after the time on the case was up for me to respond it let me choose "wrong item returned", this then went straight to Ebay to decide the outcome. Few days later get email from Ebay saying they have looked at the case and can see the wrong item was returned and I would not have to refund the money and upheld my case.

One of the rare times Ebay side with the seller but you have to stuff the evidence in their face to do it. Buyer still ended up with a replacement monitor but he didnt get a refund.
 
potatolord said:
The advantage of Facebook marketplace is that the buyer has to pick up the item and cash is exchanged (in my experience).

I no longer sell on ebay, largely because this forum has given me many examples of how it can go wrong.
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Can you not do that on ebay? I want to sell some PC parts and was thinking of insisting on collection only?
 
Have bought loads of stuff on eBay, not had a problem bar one item turning up looking as if it had been put through a shredder. Have sold 4 items on eBay, all 4 were stolen and eBay sided with the buyer. 100% record, not bad going on eBay's part.
 
dLockers said:
If you do this only do cash on collection
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Good point, otherwise they could collect, pay via paypal and then say they never received the stuff.

I'd then also have no proof of postage?

It's annoying as there doesn't seem to be anywhere decent to sell pc parts (that I have access to).

I tried gumtree but zero interest, ebay seems like too many issues, not on facebook, nowhere near 1000 posts for the members market here...
 
Jay343434 said:
Good point, otherwise they could collect, pay via paypal and then say they never received the stuff.

I'd then also have no proof of postage?

It's annoying as there doesn't seem to be anywhere decent to sell pc parts (that I have access to).

I tried gumtree but zero interest.
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Members market on here?
 
Beans on toast Dave said:
i belive it depends on what you are selling, cars get the option most things dont
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Ah ok, it's pc parts.

I'm not overly familiar with ebay but buy it now option appears to allow someone to pay for it with paypal in advance. I just wanted to sell something where someone comes to my home, checks everything then pays me cash/bank transfer.

Maybe ebay isn't the way to go then...
 
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