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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 16:48 
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This one is not my tale of woe, it was told to me by a guy who works for me and happened 3 weeks ago.

The kids of the people who live over the road from him sold a high value watch on Ebay. The sale was COD, and when the buyers came round they produced a Taser gun. He is still not sure if they took the watch or if anybody was hurt as he doesn’t know them that well. There were armed response police all over the house though.

So stick with Pay Pal and postage :DD


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I ended up transferring £500 from Paypal from my eBay 'winnings'. I've spent about £100 at the post office and my eBay fees will be about £78 quid so all in all, not a bad haul.


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I ordered some cream the wife said she wanted for holiday and couldn’t get in the UK, from an EBay seller in the US.

I get a UPS tracking number that doesn’t change from 9th August and the seller never replies to any of my emails so I opened a case yesterday.

Today the stuff turns up with £11.71 worth of customs charges, £8 of which the post office takes for sending a me a piece of paper.

The value of the stuff was around £18 so I’m paid a 60% premium there was no mention of any risk of customs in the auction details and I’ve bought higher value stuff from US EBay sellers before with no problems.

Any chance I can get the money back? Its more principal than the money now as the seller has been a arsehole with communication


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:12 
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There's nothing the seller can do about the charges (besides lie on the outside of the box about the value of the contents), so I'm not sure how you can pin it on him.

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There's nothing the seller can do about the charges (besides lie on the outside of the box about the value of the contents), so I'm not sure how you can pin it on him.

:this: It's utterly outside the seller's control. No way they could have known. The law is clear that it's the buyer's responsibility to pay the fees, so I'd say it's clearly also the buyer's responsibility to be aware of the potential fees when shopping.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:26 
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Plus there is no arguing with customs either, they are judge, jury and executioner, with no ability for appeal.

Basically, it's suck it up time.


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Is there any way you can avoid the 'admin' charges that Royal Mail et al whack on, though? Paying HMRC directly, for example?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:30 
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There's nothing the seller can do about the charges (besides lie on the outside of the box about the value of the contents), so I'm not sure how you can pin it on him.

:this: It's utterly outside the seller's control. No way they could have known. The law is clear that it's the buyer's responsibility to pay the fees, so I'd say it's clearly also the buyer's responsibility to be aware of the potential fees when shopping.


Play used to tell you when ordering DVD's that you could get hit with Charges, Ebay said that whilst they will do fuck all over the money refund themselves they will take a dim view of the seller not having something on the sale about this.

The fees I pay for are the fees listed on the sale. (according to Ebay)

After looking on the UK Customs site I can see that anything over £15 in value is a target so I don't see why the seller couldn't.

In all honesty this wouldn’t be a problem as I’ve been stung before and that’s the risk you take. However he seller has been a total prick with no communication (they are still selling stuff) so I’m going to make as much noise as possible


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:32 
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Is there any way you can avoid the 'admin' charges that Royal Mail et al whack on, though? Paying HMRC directly, for example?



No they send a bit of paper saying pay this money (either on line or by stamps) and we will then send you your parcell

I had our post room frank it, I will still have to pay.


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:34 
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After looking on the UK Customs site I can see that anything over £15 in value is a target so I don't see why the seller couldn't.


Was the seller only selling to the uk, or was it worldwide delivery?


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
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There are no circumstances where this is the vendors responsibility. Customs duty and VAT is a cost to the purchaser, whether paid at the checkout on a UK purchase, or on import if purchased from overseas. Implying a responsibility to a trader to have full knowledge of the customs duty and other tax processes of every single one of the 200+ potential jurisdictions that they may ship to would prevent virtually every company on the planet from selling stuff overseas.


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
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Noticed today that Pay Pal have finally caught up with all the banks (no doubt they held out until the last minute) , you now get 2 hour transfers to your bank account for free. Previously this cost you money and the free service was 2-3 days. Finally some value for the 5% they take.


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 20:55 
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Is there any way you can avoid the 'admin' charges that Royal Mail et al whack on, though? Paying HMRC directly, for example?

Yes, apparently... by doing all the import paperwork yourself before the goods are dispatched. It apparently takes a novice 4-5 hours to get it right. Makes the £12 fee look like quite good value.


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 22:32 
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Hello. I want to buy a bike but seller seems to want cash in hand rather than paypal which should set an alarm bell ringing. However, i quite want the bike so with a few days to go dropped him a message saying "i will do a bank transfer and send a courier over at my expense". I am suspecting this will result in a "no" which will be unfortunate as a courier costs £25 anyway.

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 22:36 
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Hello. I want to buy a bike but seller seems to want cash in hand rather than paypal which should set an alarm bell ringing. However, i quite want the bike so with a few days to go dropped him a message saying "i will do a bank transfer and send a courier over at my expense". I am suspecting this will result in a "no" which will be unfortunate.
Bank transfer leaves you wide open to fraud mind.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 22:38 
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Hello. I want to buy a bike but seller seems to want cash in hand rather than paypal which should set an alarm bell ringing. However, i quite want the bike so with a few days to go dropped him a message saying "i will do a bank transfer and send a courier over at my expense". I am suspecting this will result in a "no" which will be unfortunate.
Bank transfer leaves you wide open to fraud mind.


True, but driving to brum and back is almost cost of bike.

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 22:40 
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Actually, i am hoping he will say "cock off, fagballs" and then i can buy the bike from leeds. Stupid boy.

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:04 
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I bought a Wavebird off eBay for a friend but when it turned up, the analogue stick was damaged.

I emailed the guy asking for a refund. I was ever so nice and polite but he replied with a garbled message full of spelling mistakes with no punctuation. I tried again and got similar back from him.

I escalated the issue through eBay and they've been really good about it. They've arranged for me to send it back and he'll refund me. They've even sent a pre-paid postage form so it won't cost me anything.

The email they sent me was even personalised to a certain extent. It wasn't just a cut and paste job.

Overall, I'm impressed!


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 19:11 
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Look at this twat: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281156080489

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:19 
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An ebay tale of woe for you - something that happened to my girlfriend over the course of the last few weeks and I dont really see what else she could have done - but she's now down about £20 just 'because' of the way ebay and the buyer handled things

Item sold on ebay for around £100 - posted straight away with tracking info and that tracking info added to ebay and sent to the buyer

About 3 weeks after that the buyer starts a dispute to say 'he has not recieved the item' - we check the tracking info and it says its waiting at the depot for someone to arrange re-collection - we tell the buyer this and point out he has the tracking number so could have checked this himself - and that he can simply get in touch to have it redelivered

No response from buyer and so we call the depot and they say that it can be re-delivered whenever he wants he just needs to get in touch with them

Nothing from the buyer and then he says he has arranged for re-delivery but when we look at the tracking info it seems to be being returned to us (having sat there for too long) - and sure enough about a week later it arrives back here

Buyer raises his claim to ebay asking for a full refund including postage (so we'd be out about a tenner) - we counter saying that we can refund minus postage or he can pay the postage again and we'll send it again - he does not respond - after 8 days ebay 'investigates' - finds in the buyers favour and gives him a full refund.

And because of the amount of time taken ebay will *not* refund the ebay fees they changed us to sell the item (around a tenner)

So we 'sold' something - paid for postage and have it back now and are £20 down on the deal - Ebay's answer for the fee's side is that you need to agree with the buyer within *7* days of the case being escalated and because he did not respond at all to that they wont give us our fee's back and as far as they are concerned because the buyer didnt get the item he can get his full refund.

The post office's take is that he was not around for the initial delivery and because he failed to arrange re-delivery they just returned it to the sender.

So there you go - if you want to fuck up stuff for someone buy anything on ebay and just dont engage with them at all - just wait - ebay will give you your money back and the seller will lose money - and ebay wont care - they get their cut regardless :-(


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
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Selling on eBay is a mug's game these days. I would rather give my unwanted stuff to charity than use that website.

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It is a hassle, I agree but I've recently sold a load of Saturn games and made about £150 off them. I'd rather do that then give them to a charity shop.


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Aye, probably going to be wanting to sell a keyboard soon, after a likely upgrade. Don't want to go via eBay, but don't really know where else to go.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:24 
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For smaller things i'm happy to go with ebay and haven't really had any significant problems.
For larger things that need collection, I still go through ebay, but usually organise to do the transaction outside of ebay. i.e. cash on when the come to look at it and they can take it there and then.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:30 
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I think Dave knocked the nail on the head. Where else can you go to sell things?

I recently bought a Wavebird for a friend off eBay but it was in poor condition when it arrived. I emailed the seller offering to send it back and asked for a refund. I even offered to pay the postage to send it back but the guy refused. I thought I was polite but it really wasn't in the condition that he described it.

Anyway, long story cut short. Ebay stepped in and refunded me providing I sent it back. They even sent a prepaid label for me to use.

I can imagine the seller being a bit annoyed at this but what else could I have done?


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Selling on eBay is a mug's game these days. I would rather give my unwanted stuff to charity than use that website.


My sister plundered a load of unwanted stuff from our garage and has this far sold about 600 quid worth. She's only halfway through it.

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I think Dave knocked the nail on the head. Where else can you go to sell things?

Amazon or Craigslist?

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Grim... wrote:
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I think Dave knocked the nail on the head. Where else can you go to sell things?

Amazon or Craigslist?


Gumtree is the other one i see mentioned but thats owned by Ebay :-)


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Freecycle, of course. Assuming you don't want money.

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I used Amazon Marketplace to get rid of a lot of games stuff I no longer wanted. It takes bigger fees than eBay, but isn't ridiculously biased towards the seller and is quicker to add items if you have a lot.

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TheVision wrote:
I think Dave knocked the nail on the head. Where else can you go to sell things?

Amazon or Craigslist?


Amazon I'd agree with but I don't agree that Craigslist has the same reach. I could be wrong, but the guy on the street who's likely to be buying second hand items will always go to eBay first.


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Not so much a tale of woe as it wasn't expensive or owt, but I recently bought a couple of metres of interfacing from eBay (interfacing is like a stiffening support for fabric that you can iron or sew in), not important.

Anyway, I bought it to make a couple of projects with some light fabric.

I bought it from a seller who offered same day shipping first class to arrive the next day as I wanted it in a hurry. After waiting a couple of days I contacted the seller to ask if it had been posted that same day. The seller said they had posted it 'yesterday' (so not same day shipping) but that it had arrived back with them that day because I hadn't given them the right address.

Firstly, I know that Royal Mail do not ship undeliverable items back to the sender the very next day* as it never had chance to travel to one delivery office and back and this usually takes them a couple of weeks to sort out for some reason.

Anyway, after asking for my address again, which I reconfirmed, the seller claimed tat this address was not correct and that they wouldn't re-send the item, and that I shouldn't take it personally. I pointed out the address was correct and sent a her an internet link to the address. Sender still claims the address doesn't exist and that I shouldn't take it personally. I said don't bother, please just refund the money. The seller says no, they will ship to another address, but don't take it personally.

Bored now I send the seller another address. No post the next day, or the next, or the next. Or the next.

Finally a package arrives. It's interfacing! Is it the white interfacing I ordered? No! It's black interfacing in the incorrect weight. Fantastic. Absolutely useless to me.

I contact the seller again. Asking again for a refund, saying if they refund postage I will gladly send the (useless to me) black interfacing back, but please I would now like a refund after waiting a week and a half for something completely incorrect to arrive.

The response is no, they will not send a refund but will send a replacement piece of interfacing in the correct colour. 'Don't take it personally!', they add, because that's more helpful each time.

So, they refused my request for a refund twice, though I frankly want nothing ever to do with this seller.

I left fair but negative feedback mentioning the problems. I then got a message from the seller asking me not to take it personally but would I mind awfully removing the feedback and they'd send me a micro SD card if I did.

I don't want a micro SD card and rather they kept the feedback.

*when I eventually did get something off of them their address labels do not carry a return address, so this was nonsense.

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I got ripped off on eBay a few years ago after foolishly paying via bank transfer and never received the goods. I reported it to the police. The young WPC that came to investigate asked 'What's eBay?'. :shrug:

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Not so much a tale of woe as it wasn't expensive or owt,


If its within the last 3 weeks or so you can raise a dispute on ebay which will do a number of things :

1) If you paid by paypal it can totally mess up the sellers paypal for while
2) It will get ebay to send stock letters to both sides
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Not so much a tale of woe as it wasn't expensive or owt,


If its within the last 3 weeks or so you can raise a dispute on ebay which will do a number of things :

1) If you paid by paypal it can totally mess up the sellers paypal for while
2) It will get ebay to send stock letters to both sides
3) Eventually (after about 10 days or so) you'll probably get your money back


To be fair it was more the refusal of a refund when I said I'd send the (incorrect) goods back and for the hassle of them refusing to shop elsewhere. I ended up eventually with some white interfacing (as they had refused to refund me) which I would rather have got elsewhere as I really didn't want them to have my custom (and it would have been far quicker).

I'm not out of pocket, though, so I don't want to raise a dispute. I eventually got my interfacing and though I'd rather have shopped elsewhere and had it the next day as described, it wouldn't be right to go any further as I'll now keep this to use.

It was the attitude of the seller (which I wasn't allowed to take personally - I was never quite sure why they kept saying that and wondered if English perhaps was not their first language or they had perhaps had someone take things very personally before) that bothered me, and then the bribe to remove the feedback which was along the lines of 'wouldn't ship to address, took 7 days to arrive, sent wrong item, refused refund'.

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It sounds to me like you've taken it a bit personally Mimi.

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:DD

I wish there'd been room to leave at the end of the feedback: 'Don't take it personally!'

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A current woe for you, and I can't decide what to do about it. I recently ordered some very exciting curtain poles from EBay in a bid to reduce the size of the icicles inside the house this year. Anyway they were reasonably priced and as I spent more than £50 the postage was free, Hurrah!

in fact here they are.

Shortly after I received this:

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Thanks for your order.

It appears that an error occurred within the eBay system at the time your order was placed.

A surcharge fee should have been applied to your order to the sum of £19.99 (instead of the postage fee you were charged).

This price is shown in the listing purchased from and also the postage tab that allows you to check postage to your postcode. You can also contact us direct for a postage quote to surcharge areas.

Please confirm you still require your order so I can send you a paypal request for the remaining amount needed to settle the surcharge fee.

Alternatively, we can cancel the order and issue a full refund.

Please let us know how you would like to proceed.

We will also be contacting eBay regarding this error so that it is applied correctly in future.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and understanding

Kindest regards,

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I didn't notice the surcharge panel at the bottom of the screen before so I dont know if thats been hastily added.

Should I

a) Pay da man and receive delicious curtains.

b) Complain at da man and try and get him to send me the curtains without paying the shady surcharge.

c) flounce a bit and take my business elsewhere. Bearing in mind that I probably wont get them any cheaper anywhere else anyway, and I am pretty lazy.


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 19:39 
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Pretty sure you can't add stuff to a listing once it's ended, or after it's received bids, without the listing clearly stating what's changed - so I imagine it was always there.

If it stated it on the listing, then provided it's still a good price I'd pay up - it's not their fault if eBay can't calculate fees etc. properly.

However, what the hell is the £19.99 surcharge actually for?!


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 20:29 
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GazChap wrote:
Pretty sure you can't add stuff to a listing once it's ended, or after it's received bids, without the listing clearly stating what's changed - so I imagine it was always there.

If it stated it on the listing, then provided it's still a good price I'd pay up - it's not their fault if eBay can't calculate fees etc. properly.

However, what the hell is the £19.99 surcharge actually for?!
I think you can add to a multiple Buy It Now listing, but it possibly does that updated information thingy like auctions & one-off BINs.

Surcharge is for being a teuchter :P

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 20:30 
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I'd offer a tenner for plus five feedback both ways and see how that goes down as it works in both parties' favour then pay the twenty. I would mutter and grumble at them, though, as I suspect you are in the highlands.

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 20:45 
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Wullie wrote:
GazChap wrote:
Pretty sure you can't add stuff to a listing once it's ended, or after it's received bids, without the listing clearly stating what's changed - so I imagine it was always there.

If it stated it on the listing, then provided it's still a good price I'd pay up - it's not their fault if eBay can't calculate fees etc. properly.

However, what the hell is the £19.99 surcharge actually for?!
I think you can add to a multiple Buy It Now listing, but it possibly does that updated information thingy like auctions & one-off BINs.

Surcharge is for being a teuchter :P


Ken ged. I get loads of stuff delivered and nobody ever claims that alyth is the highlands (because it isnt). I suspect this is an overly harsh "highlands and islands" postage charge which never makes it to the courier.

Thanks all for advice, I shall take the pay up then grumble afterwards approach as it is getting rather chilly up in here!


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 21:26 
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So, you bought long curtain poles to knock icicles down with?

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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 21:34 
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krazywookie wrote:
Ken ged. I get loads of stuff delivered and nobody ever claims that alyth is the highlands (because it isnt). I suspect this is an overly harsh "highlands and islands" postage charge which never makes it to the courier.


See if they'll send 'em to my postcode then, I never get the surcharge :)


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 23:24 
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kalmar wrote:
krazywookie wrote:
Ken ged. I get loads of stuff delivered and nobody ever claims that alyth is the highlands (because it isnt). I suspect this is an overly harsh "highlands and islands" postage charge which never makes it to the courier.


See if they'll send 'em to my postcode then, I never get the surcharge :)

ooo, is your postcode not on their list?


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 Post subject: Re: eBay tales of woe
PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 15:20 
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Not a tale of woe, just looking for some advice regarding eBay and feedback etiquette. I bought this and when it arrived I tested it. The digital in plug for the optical cable is missing the little flap that covers it and folds in when you plug in the cable. When the flap is folded in it also acts as a sort of gripper on the cable to hold it in place. With it being missing, the cable can fall out or be pulled out with no resistance.
I contacted the seller, who didn't really understand what I meant and said it had been fully tested but told me to send a picture of the problem and they would relist it, "and pay the postage to ship on".
After I'd contacted them I tested the headset properly and found that during play, there was no issue with sound quality and presumably as long as the base unit and xbox don't exert any force on the cable, it will function properly.
I've decided I'm happy to just keep it, but I'm not sure what I should say in the feedback. Should I mention this issue since the item is mean to be refurbished and in excellent condition? If they had tested it by plugging in the optical cable this should have been noticed. Or should I just rate them well since they didn't hesitate to offer the refund?

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