Be Excellent To Each Other

The last time I sold something on Ebay (and it will be the last time) was about five months ago. I sold my Blackberry Q10 when I upgraded to the Passport.

Anywho, I listed it on Ebay for about a tenner less than the going rate hoping for a quick sale. I got one too, within a few hours. When I compared the Paypal address to the address given by Ebay they did not match. So I ran the address on Paypal and it did not exist. So instead of messaging the buyer through Ebay I decided I would use the Paypal email, just to make sure I went "off grid" to ensure this wasn't a scammer. After repeated emails to the buyer warning him that I would not ship the phone until he had his confirmed address sorted he finally sorted it, with a completely different address.

I sent the phone, as promised, by RMSD. It was delivered the following morning and signed for by "Mohammed".

Everything went quiet (I didn't receive any feedback) so I assumed that was the end of the matter. Then all of a sudden one day I log into Paypal and it says "Payment on hold -£127". So my Paypal account was £127 in the red. Thinking nothing of it I went about my day and ordered some paper from Ebay. All of a sudden £6.99 plus the £127 are taken from my bank account.

So I phoned Paypal and apparently the buyer had claimed that even though he had communicated with me the payment was not authorised. So I sent Ebay all of the emails that I had sent to and fro with him and they put the money back, but I decided from that moment on it was just too risky.

I'm not exactly the richest person on the planet and had I been having a bad month or something that £-127 they took from my bank would have put me overdrawn (something I can claim to never EVER having being throughout my entire life) and in all sorts of trouble. I don't have an overdraft and nor do I want one (it's an Aspie thing) so instead of going overdrawn I don't, but I would get slapped with a hefty fine by the bank.

It's just too risky. Not only that but it's absolutely fucking rife with fakes. I've even had fake fucking vaping coils sent to me FFS.

Well, some nice eBayer has bought the Jag. Now we've just got to see if they send the deposit.

And I think I've sold my Vespa too. Then the fun job of finding something else to buy.

Has anyone else noticed this weird kind of, well, listing spam I guess it is, on Amazon lately?

Most items sell 1 of a thing, but lately virtually every item I see has variants added selling 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. of the same item, except those listings selling 2 cost way more than twice as much as the guy selling 1. The price per item actually increases with quantity.

What the shit is this about? Some kind of opportunistic listing where they assume people mindlessly wanting to buy two will buy the over-inflated listing, instead of two of the 1-quantity listing?

Here's an example: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00026LJQG

I presume you don't even need to hold the stock. You just buy two of the item from the Amazon seller selling one, then 'ship' it to the actual buyer, pocketing the difference?

The nice lady is coming to collect the Jag in an hour. Chances of it actually being sold via eBay have now risen to 15%.

A friend of mine has just sold a Metal Gear solid expansion pack for the PS1 and a Solid Snake figure for £670.

Mind blowing.

Yeah, imagine willingly parting with some gaming tat!

I kno, rite?

I've sold a fair bit of stuff recently but I have a rule that says I don't sell anything gaming related. That has left me with some life sized wrestler cut outs that I can't sell as they were used to promote the Smackdown games.

Fixed for the truth.

Huh, now it's risen to 100%.

They didn't even test drive it

Hurrah!

Drinks are.on Grim...!

Every car I've sold via eBay has basically gone like that. Just turn up, hand the money over, and go away.

My kind of buyers.

I had the same when I sold my Bravo - I even offered to take them out for a drive first to show them it worked, but they just handed over cash and drove off.

Now I think about it, this happened to me when I sold our old KA. That was only worth £300 quid though so I don't think either of us were that bothered.

I think mine was £3300.
I also had someone want to buy my Vespa without even seeing it - he was happy to pay the money into my bank account and arrange for it to be collected (and no it wasn't a scam).

The best one was the guy who bought the BMW 7 Series off me (the one I bought off Trooper.)

He got a mate to drive him over to my house from Berlin, had a quick look around the car, paid me the money and then drove off - all the way back to Berlin, to break the car for parts.

There's a lot of that happening. And it's worth it.

Yeah my mate had a M3 with a blown diff that went exactly the same way. No nonsense German buyer pulled up at his house with a tow truck, car went off to be broken for parts. Got a very good price for it too.

Didn't check properly the dimensions of a cupboard I bought for 99p. The man is going to deliver it. For a tenner in his van.

I bought this from a seller on eBay:


However, when the package arrived, that was not what they had sent. They had sent this:


I contacted the seller saying that they'd sent the wrong item (and in completely the wrong size) so I'd be happy to send the incorrect item back and could they either refund my purchase or, preferably, send me out the correct item in the correct size.

The seller contacted me back to say they'd sent the item because they were so busy, and that they would refund me only 30% as it was not quite the right item...

Er...

Amazing! Imagine doing that in a shop on the high street?!?

What on earth were they thinking? Take it to eBay and get all your money back!

Well that won't take long for eBay to sort out.

Amazing.

I replied, again saying unfortunately it was the wrong item (and one I did not want) and in the wrong size, so absolutely no good for my purposes. I asked again for a replacement, or saying I'd send it back for a full refund. I have pasted their response below...

Once I'm up and about I will put up a dispute. I'm not going to try to reason with that person any more.

Hi, we know you ordered a green jumper, but as we were very busy, we hoped that the purple bowling ball cake mould would be OK. Please accept a 50p Nandos voucher as compensation. Return postage to be paid by buyer. KTHNKSBY

Oh. My.

The front of it!

Hahaha! Jesus, some people.

Wow. That's impressive levels of stupidity or dishonesty - not quite sure which.

IT'S VERY HARD TO LIVE ON EBAY NOW

Next email will be 70% as a final offer and a threat to negative feedback.

Ordered one dining set (plates and so on) from Argos.

Arrives smashed.

Start a return, send photos to Argos (their Ebay thing)

Return accepted.

Print label. I don't have a printer...

I have absolutely no other option than to print a fucking label with a printer I don't fucking have. I can not even add a message to tell Argos I don't have said fucking printer.

/bangs head on wall.

Its not just EBay you have to watch when selling, Pay Pal can cause issues as well

I had an email from them about something I sold back in November, the claim was that the payment was made without the account owners permission

Unless you have proof of postage (which I did) Pay Pal will find against you, they even advised that I took pictures of everything!

Pay Pal claims of this nature can be raised up to 180 days after the sale. I thought the whole thing was a bit suspect as 10 weeks had elapsed since the payment, who doesn't look at their credit card statement for that long?

I threw away a ton of post office receipts from September/October yesterday.

I think I'll dig them out the bin.

I'm selling a couple of old push chair/travel systems on eBay. They've been on for 10 days and I must have had about 25-30 people ask if I have a buy it now price or if I'll sell bits of it separately.

Annoying.

And last night I put some more stuff on eBay. I woke up this morning to two messages asking if I've got a buy it now price.

What's wrong with people? Someone has offered me £10 for one item which straight away makes me think that it's worth more than that so clearly, I'm going to want to let the auction run.

The best thing these days is to stick a buy in now price on and insist on immediate Pay Pal payment.

It stops all the email messages and the nutters that buy things then never pay.

Yeah, the large majority of them will be chancers hoping you'll accept far less than it's worth.
Even if you put a disclaimer in saying "No BIN" they'll still ask.

Tomorrow is BIN discussion day, anyway.

I have epic bin tale to tell.

Thing is you are selling old stuff which I guess in part is cluttering up your house and that you have also had you moneys worth from?

So best thing is to search for what you are selling first in Ebay then look at completed listings and see what is a realistic price.

Then set the BIN and also immediate Pay Pay payment, if it doesn't sell you can adjust and relist for free

This filters out all the clowns that make shit offers and ask dumb questions.

Good point. I've got a load of wrestling masks that I'm planning on putting on ebay this evening. I might follow your lead and do this.

Trade you one for some games

If you're serious, you have a deal!

Sure. I've always wanted my own wrestling mask!

Me (at a museum).

You have a really hairy tongue

He got it from eating uncooked pork.

Is that Vision or Curio? They both look the same from the parts that are on show.