eBay

[Andy Turnbull]

Who is this asshole so we can name and shame

Andy

[Philip Ayres]

Here's the item: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330648588827

You can see the feedback by clicking on the number next to my name

[Andy Turnbull]

Already did and made my thoughts clear via twitter.

What a gobshite.

Andy

[The Doctor]

Do people expect things to be beamed to their abode instantly?

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

I mailed him when he asked *ON WEDNESDAY* when the item would be sent and said I'd been stuck in all day doing child care due to the strikes so it would be the next day.

Another plea for international postage today. Fortunately the RM's online price calculator being down has given me a decent excuse to say no.

[Philip Ayres]

Dec 1, 2011 21:51:20 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Which bit of "I do not ship otside the UK is so difficult to understand"?

That's the FIFTH one now!

[Bogatan]

Dec 3, 2011 1:19:05 GMT Philip Ayres said:

A recent buyer paid at 16:45 on 28th November. I sent the item 1st December. My T&Cs say 3 working days. And my dispatch gets described as "slow" on my Feedback?

You're lucky, a year ago I got negative feedback for the same thing.

Some people are dicks.

[Bogatan]

Dec 1, 2011 21:51:20 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Which bit of "I do not ship otside the UK is so difficult to understand"?

I'll post aboard but I found the best way to handle it is not to put it in the shipping options, if they have gone to the effort to find the listing and nothing in their feedback suggests a problem (check their feedback left for others) I'll give them the price and if they want to bid I'll alter the auction. So far its working well.

[Philip Ayres]

Nov 27, 2011 21:59:21 GMT Philip Ayres said:

An amusing tale from ebay world:

I've had a couple of requests to add BINs to auctions today. Now I've got no problem doing this if it's a decent offer and nobody has bid on the item.

One user mails me more than once about a certain item. I think about and decide OK then and add the BIN. Gone in seconds before he could get there :-)

Hah! The buyer's e-cheque payment has bounced!

[blueshift]

What's an e-cheque??

[Philip Ayres]

a method of paying through paypal that i've never figured out how to do!

[Bogatan]

Got an odd feedback a few days ago.

"Price: Reasonable. Delivery Time: Exceptional."

Okay its positive, but it suggests I had some input on the final value. I guess he/she might have been disappointed by the toy when it arrived, but the description was clear and they chose how much to bid.

[Philip Ayres]

Dec 8, 2011 15:57:22 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Nov 27, 2011 21:59:21 GMT Philip Ayres said:

An amusing tale from ebay world:

I've had a couple of requests to add BINs to auctions today. Now I've got no problem doing this if it's a decent offer and nobody has bid on the item.

One user mails me more than once about a certain item. I think about and decide OK then and add the BIN. Gone in seconds before he could get there :-)

Hah! The buyer's e-cheque payment has bounced!

And again. I'm smelling a time waster and asked them to pay by chq/postal order.

[Bogatan]

Ok I won a Classic Jetfire Grimlock 2 pack yesterday. Today I get an email saying he had already sold the item privately and asking me to request a cancellation.

Just considering if this is worthy of negative feedback, it has to be surely, but I do so hate leaving it.

[Philip Ayres]

Hmmmm. That's not good at all. Let em have it with both barrels.

I had a lot of comics arrive last week: 5 in it. I'd bought it needing 2 of them knowing I could shift the remainder to someone else (burns) One of those issues I needed turned out to be from a different but similarly titled series while the other wasn't in the condition described. I think the seller knew it because the description for the listing has now been removed.

Needless to say the apropriate part of their seller ratings suffered ....

[jameso]

Dec 19, 2011 10:19:58 GMT Bogatan said:

Ok I won a Classic Jetfire Grimlock 2 pack yesterday. Today I get an email saying he had already sold the item privately and asking me to request a cancellation.

Just considering if this is worthy of negative feedback, it has to be surely, but I do so hate leaving it.

Don't agree to the cancellation either, and the seller will still have to pay the e-bay final valuation percentage fee. Probably not that big a deal, but a little dig anyway.

[Bogatan]

Oh yeah no way in hell was I planning to agree to that.

[blueshift]

Agreed! That's unacceptable, winning the auction was a contract between you and the seller!

[Bogatan]

So apparently his friend came around and offered him £50 for it but he didn't have time to cancel the auction.

Admittedly, if true £50 is hard to turn down, (though hes screwing over his friend at that price) but it takes all of a few seconds to cancel the auction. Just as likely it didn't go for what he expected and doesn't want to sell.

By the way was there are reason yesterdays posts didn't show up as the most recent activity on the main page?

[Philip Ayres]

In the 50 most recent posts list? probably because they'd been pushed off the bottom, we had a few posts yesterday.

[blueshift]

Dec 20, 2011 11:58:44 GMT Bogatan said:

So apparently his friend came around and offered him £50 for it but he didn't have time to cancel the auction.

Admittedly, if true £50 is hard to turn down, (though hes screwing over his friend at that price) but it takes all of a few seconds to cancel the auction. Just as likely it didn't go for what he expected and doesn't want to sell.

By the way was there are reason yesterdays posts didn't show up as the most recent activity on the main page?

I've noticed the 'most recent post' being wrong too, how odd.

[Bogatan]

Dec 20, 2011 12:01:52 GMT Philip Ayres said:

In the 50 most recent posts list? probably because they'd been pushed off the bottom, we had a few posts yesterday.

No on the main page with each forum showing its most recent thread, this forum was showing my posts in my sale thread from the day before rather than this thread which had multiple posts yesterday.

[Philip Ayres]

You may remember me mentioning I had issues with an ebay user rex_991234 not paying for items. So I barred him from bidding.

Looks like he did it again as rex1232012.

Is a Luke Warner of North London known to us?

[Philip Ayres]

I'm worried I've got a second dodgy bidder. Item was won 18th Feb by someone with a low, but genuine 100% positive feedback. Invoice went out that night. Last week I noticed it was marked payment dispatched but when it hadn't turned up by the start of the week I contacted the buyer asking him to confirm what payment method he used. No response.....

[Philip Ayres]

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[tom]

I've had a seller charge me £5 for posting a figure to me from within the UK. The postage itself cost less than two quid, and it was packaged in some card from a 4-pack of fosters with a load of brown tape round it. Am I able to make a claim against him through eBay for the unnecessary charge?

[Bogatan]

I cant remember for sure, you can ask him for a partial refund but if he sent by the method he said he would Im not sure what ebay will do. Ask the seller about it and for some money back, if he refuses or you dont like his explanation leave negative feedback.

[Hero]

Having a problem that someone committed to buy from 4 separate auctions and has still after 2 weeks not paid up. I cant be bothered to take up a case, I'd rather cancel it all, block the person and re-list my stuff.

I have no problems with late payment if people stay in contact. I don't get anything.

I read their feedback system and judging by it, this person is a scalper who pays late or sometimes not at all.

If I do the cancel, block, relist thing, surely they can't still pay for items with one of the many invoices I have bombarded with?

[Bogatan]

I think you can only cancel finished auctions with the sellers agreement, if you dont want to go via the unpaid bidder option (which always carries the risk of the buyer paying then leaving neg feedback if they are a complete pratt) you'd have to wait the 30 or 60 days till they cant leave feedback and relist then, but you wont get back your seller fees from the first auctions.

[Nigel]

You're better off opening an unpaid item dispute. If the buyer hasn't agreed to cancel, then he can decline the cancellation request and then there's nothing you can do. You still might not get paid and you won't receive a final value fee credit or relist credit.

A buyer can't leave feedback if he doesn't respond to the dispute before it's closed.

pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/unpaid-items.html
pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/cancel-transaction-process.html