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I'm not seeing the problem here

I could cater weddings

No!! I could RE-OPEN SPUD U LIKE

Sold.

There's still a Spud U Like at Cheshire Oaks. I wonder why yours closed.

There’s one at Merry Hill, too. I think it just wasn’t getting enough custom. There were a band of hardy regulars but obviously not enough to keep it open. I think the franchise owned five or six, but all but Merry Hill have now closed. The manager of the one that’s closed near me has gone to manage the Merry Hill branch.

Had my eBay account hacked on Saturday. Luckily it was only £6.95 for a pack of socks. Other than a few password changes, no harm is done.

Amazing that someone would go to that trouble. Keep an eye on it.. It might be being primed for a big purchase.

yes they had reserved a £300 tom tom.. all ok now. Many passwords changed..

I need to be less trusting on eBay. I got scammed out of £83 last week. My own fault for not keeping everything within eBay though -

1) I spot a cheap SNES with a bundle of games for a zero-rated seller. I buy and pay for it
2) Within an hour, I get my money back and the auction is cancelled without explanation
3) A couple of days later, I see the same SNES but sold by a different ID. I buy and pay again
4) I get a message from the seller saying that he cant get access to the money because he can't prove his ID to eBay. We agree to him returning me the money, cancelling the auction and me paying for it manually. This was obviously my big mistake but in the message conversations, he sounded genuine enough to fool me and they did return the money to me initially. At this point, I thought everything was sorted.
5) At the weekend, I see the SNES again.. new seller ID. We exchange a few more messages about it, but ultimately have to give it up.

I felt rather sheepish when I realised what I'd done, but I figure if I posted about it, it might help someone be less stupid than I was.

That's an expensive drum. Glad you got it sorted.

How quaint, I can't remember the last time I encountered anyone referring to a drum as a Tom Tom.

Obviously fraud and get the authorities involved , but also depending on what method you used to pay for it get them involved as well (I assume you did not use Paypal as they could simply reverse the payment and you'd get your money back)

Well that's its name.

I bet you enjoy playing the pianoforte.

Well it is my f--

Nope, can't do it.

Yesterday - I buy a boxed Saturn and 19 games for £110. Listed as 'mint'
Today - Seller refunds my money, cancels the auctions and sends me a message 'Hi I'm sorry about this it's not working I should have checked it was all working I messed up sorry'
Seems pretty obvious he's had an offer for it elsewhere, but to test the water, I say I'd have been ok with a partial refund and just the games and accessories.. no reply.

Getting rather tired of this stuff now, so I phoned eBay Customer Service who said they do look into this stuff. It won't get me the Saturn, but still.

Also, eBay's callback system is a bit odd. Every time I've used it, you get a call and then an automated message says "When VALUED_CUSTOMER is on the line, press one..".. I assume it's the message that's supposed to be played to the Customer Service bod and not to me. It makes me so valued.

Total facepalm... I've sold something and sent it with a load of other things before I've received the payment!

I reckon I've got little chance of seeing that money now. Bugger.

What rating does the buyer have? I didn't realise till a friend mentioned it the other day that sellers can't leave bad feedback for buyers now - news to me, but I've not sold on there in a while.

I've been having mixed results with eBay lately. Found some good bits and bobs but also an increasing number of people just not sending anything to me and me having to claim the money back from eBay.

I think it's been like that for a while now.

The seller has good feedback, over 1000 I think but still... We'll wait and see if he does the right thing.

Can’t you send him a message like “Hi dude, just to let you know I’ve sent you [some stuff] early. Wouldn’t want you to miss out due to Christmas post! Happy computering. I’ll be grateful if you could make payment within 7 days. Yours sincerely, TV”

I sent a message to the solenoid folks who sold me dud ones that don't fit, they replied saying " take some videos and photos of the difference between the old and new ones, our engineers will look at them and if we agree we'll arrange a reasonable refund"...
I replied saying "consumer rights act 2015 bitches" they replied saying "here is your refund in full and you keep the parts, we don't want them back"

Yay!

Yeah, I did that at about 4:30 this afternoon. I haven't heard anything yet so We shall see what happens.