Pillock on ebay (rant)

Treefrog · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:50

Well, I was listing a caravan on ebay for a friend of mine. You know, one of those things that follow cars round and clog up the roads on Bank Holidays.

Jokingly, I listed that postage would be £50,000 via 2nd class post, not expecting anyone to take it seriously. Wrong!!!!

Some total muppet decided to report it for fee avoidance. And ebay acted on it. Sheesh! Some people!
I think this calls for a:

DRZ · 23 Apr 2006 at 02:53

No doubt somewhere on some forum a user is getting praised for helping out those helpless ebay users that would have failed to have noticed the scam.

:rolleyes:

Raymond Lin · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:16

ahem....the jokes on you?

shouldn't really muck about on an auction that you are serious about. I can see you are kidding, but honestly can you not see how the guy who report you have grounds to do so? If you were selling say a pin or something then the postage obviously won't be that much, nor will the pin worth that much (unless it's made of diamond and used to belong to Queen Victoria or something). A Caravan (decent one) could easily cost £50,000, so personally it could seen you are avoiding ebay fees.

neoboy · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:18

Let this be a lesson to you, only Nigerian scammers can get away with wrong doing on ebay.

Treefrog · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:37

Raymond Lin said:
ahem....the jokes on you?

shouldn't really muck about on an auction that you are serious about. I can see you are kidding, but honestly can you not see how the guy who report you have grounds to do so?

Yeah, I guess. I'm just gobsmacked that anyone would take it seriously though.

neoboy said:
Let this be a lesson to you, only Nigerian scammers can get away with wrong doing on ebay.

Darn! And I thought no-one would notice.

KaHn · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:39

50k postage is a bit much like. But kudos for trying

KaHn

Raikiri · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:50

I would like to see you try and send it via royal mail

chris_r · 23 Apr 2006 at 03:58

Raikiri said:
I would like to see you try and send it via royal mail

They'd lose it!

PardonTheWait · 23 Apr 2006 at 04:07

chris_r said:
They'd lose it!

rofl

Treefrog · 23 Apr 2006 at 04:07

Raikiri said:
I would like to see you try and send it via royal mail

Stick a stamp on, pop it in the postbox - no problem!

chris_r said:
They'd lose it!

Hmmm - I'd better make sure my wrapping is better than ElRazur's then.

Raikiri · 23 Apr 2006 at 04:15

chris_r said:
They'd lose it!

Just don't put "fragile" on it, or they will break it as well

singist · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:00

Treefrog said:
Stick a stamp on, pop it in the postbox - no problem!

Hmmm - I'd better make sure my wrapping is better than ElRazur's then.

LOL ............ very good.

Sequoia · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:21

Treefrog said:
I'm just gobsmacked that anyone would take it seriously though.

So am I.

Some people seem to have a serious sense-of-humour failure.

Yeah, okay, technically I suppose it's against the rules. But I can't help but think it was bleepingly obvious it was just a joke. Sign of the times, I guess, TF.

Spud21 · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:25

I take it from this then there is actually a thriving industry that deals with the postage of caravans then, and this bloke took offence to your mick taking ?

What an absolute goon, some people really need to get a sense of humour.

I suppose his argument is that you are wanting 50k plus the auction figure for the caravan, but ffs does a new caravan even cost that ? I know some of the big immobile ones can cost that and more but the towed ones are nothing like that expensive are they?

fatiain · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:40

Spud21 said:
I take it from this then there is actually a thriving industry that deals with the postage of caravans then, and this bloke took offence to your mick taking ?

I have just started "fatiain caravan couriers, we only charge by the foot"

Spud21 said:
What an absolute goon, some people really need to get a sense of humour.

I have a sense of humopur, it's in it's box, unused. I may put it on Ebay (do you know of a sense of humour carrier?)

phykell · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:50

The one constant I've found when doing anything to do with EBay is that everything goes smoothly until a friend asks you to sell or buy something for them. As soon as that happens, everything goes to hell, people won't/don't pay, end listings early, won't reply to emails, and so on. I once got asked to sell some stuff on behalf of an animal charity and got loads of abuse from the representatives of the company who manufactured the stuff! Personally, I've never had a problem, it's only when I'm doing a favour for someone else that I run into all the dodgy EBayers...

Treefrog · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:42

fatiain said:
I have just started "fatiain caravan couriers, we only charge by the foot"

Dammit! I've just started "TF Escorts & Gigolos" using the same slogan!!one

fatiain said:
I have a sense of humour, it's in it's box, unused. I may put it on Ebay (do you know of a sense of humour carrier?)

I can think of someone who could use it ...

Sense of humour carrier? I can think of a couple of courier companies whose services are a joke - does that count?

Amleto · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:49

I think it's fair to report it, because when you bid, ebay pops up a big message about agreeing to pay postage costs...

Treefrog · 23 Apr 2006 at 13:59

Amleto said:
I think it's fair to report it, because when you bid, ebay pops up a big message about agreeing to pay postage costs...

I did also say payment on collection much preferred.

I guess I'm just surprised that someone a) believed it, and b) acted on it.

ThriceNightly · 23 Apr 2006 at 16:02

Treefrog said:
I guess I'm just surprised that someone a) believed it, and b) acted on it.

....hopefully youv'e learnt a lesson and won't mess about on ebay any more.

theres enough idiots on there as it is.

Pillock on ebay (rant)

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