Flaming Ebay

norm said:
Bout time a competitor stepped in, free listings, 5% fees on everything for life, true seller/buyer feedback, no payment restrictions.
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well, that's how they can get away with getting a 10% cut + another few % for the privilege of using PP, because there is no real alternative.

schizo said:
Ask him to send the card back at his own cost.

Explain to him you will check at the serial numbers,security markings,and photos which you took to be 100% sure it is the same card.

This might spook him as the "security" markings might not be obvious to him.
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oh and do this. happened to me few times. once you mention serial numbers or security marks, the item suddenly starts working or you never hear from them again anyway.
 
hyperseven said:
But how can the seller prove that the documentation they have was for the item that was sent?
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like many things in life, this works with the assumption that seller is genuine and honest in the first place.

just like the assumption is that the buyer is honest and will be returning the item they received and mentioning the check of serials and security marks will not scare him.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Thats it though there is a competitor, eBid, its been around since the year dot.

Trouble is no-one ever uses it.
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The only company that has the magnitude to do it would be Google, I mean they already had online payments setup. Google shopping links into ebay, they could easily tap into that.
 
ebay is schocking to sell on! No seller protection despite what they will tell you, I would never use it to sell on anymore.
Just buying stuff is generally fine as they support and favour buyers so much now!
OP It may be best to initiate contact with PayPal first. Either call them or email them and explain the situation. If the buyer launches a case then its pretty much game over.
 
norm said:
Bout time a competitor stepped in, free listings, 5% fees on everything for life, true seller/buyer feedback, no payment restrictions.
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There's Google Wallet and i'm really surprised Google can't be arsed to even bother competing with eBay.

If Google would release an auction site, eBay would absolutely **** themselves.
 
If Google did do that, eBay would lose a hell of a lot of business.

I try to avoid selling on eBay where I can, because of all of the fees. Usually, I try to sell stuff on the MM when I can.

Personally, I think it is time to start giving eBay a miss, some people on there are just scammers, trying to get as much money, and file false claims as thy can.
 
Because 99.9% of the time you will sell your item on ebay, on forums to many people try to lowball sellers or pull out at the last minute.

Ebay once apon a time was a great place to sell stuff, you sold it and you had the same rights as buyers everything was fair fee's where low & no need to use paypal.

These days both greed & no competition has made ebay a very risky place to sell.
 
Ixon said:
Because 99.9% of the time you will sell your item on ebay, on forums to many people try to lowball sellers or pull out at the last minute.

Ebay once apon a time was a great place to sell stuff, you sold it and you had the same rights as buyers everything was fair fee's where low & no need to use paypal.

These days both greed & no competition has made ebay a very risky place to sell.
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You could put up for sale a GTX Titan Black for £10 in the MM and someone would offer £7.50! It doesn't matter what price or even if you put 'no offers'. Annoys me that even if you price something to sell quickly someone will always try to low ball you on the MM, even if they're getting a comparative bargain at your selling price. I know it's up to the seller to reject or accept the price but still annoying when your item is keenly priced anyway.
 
I don't understand why people get wound up over low ball offers.

Cash is king and its the customer that holds the cash. There is nothing rude about bargaining, a seller can always say no to a low offer. Nothing is lost bar a few seconds of time.
 
Sold a phone on eBay few weeks ago, same day buyer received it he filed a dispute saying it wasn't described. Which I thought was odd. Tracked down the guy's phone number and phoned him up, after a bit of stumbling he cancelled the dispute there and then.

Dodgy the lot of them.
 
Ixon said:
Nope thankfully not, it was actually a GTX 780 that i managed to pick up on the cheap of a friend that was skint at the time.
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Good friend

Edit: Have you considering it's actually your skint mate who bought the card with the intention to scam you out of two lots of money? If that's true you could think of it as karma :p
 
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This sort of thing does happen but it's rare. I expect it to happen once in every 50 sales.

As far as forum selling goes, I don't have time for back and forth messages because someone is trying to haggle £3, plus all the messages for information exchange, logging into internet banking to check if funds have arrived, sending another message to confirm receipt of funds and another to confirm despatch. It's not a "few seconds", it's 20+ minutes of effort per item.

I'd rather pay 10% and have it all done in one or two clicks.
 
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