After getting stiffed on a 800.00 sale, I gave Ebay a suggestion..................... (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

Told a customer service supervisor they need to institute a selling policy; "On any item over 500.00/1000.00/pick a number, you have 24 hours to cancel and if you don't, YOU BOUGHT IT, YOU OWN IT, YOU CANNOT CANCEL THE SALE OR RETURN IT.

To cancel a 800.00 sale three days later is total horseshit, that's bogus.

*******.

 

[Horus]

You bid and win....Pay the Man... End of......

 

[Malcolm Britain]

Agree ..it is one of the worst features of eBay for honest sellers. I have recently started clearing out a load of collectibles and have sold around 200 items since mid Summer mainly in the £30 price bracket and had no problems whatsoever selling via BIN, no offers, no refunds and requiring instant payment.

However earlier experiences with higher value items gave a few problems with buyers who paid and then complained that something very minor wasn’t right and asked for a partial refund with clear intention of reselling at a profit. As you may imagine my responses were short and sweet. Items returned at “buyers” expense but this was clearly a popular scam.

i am much happier with the way I get paid as a seller now that PayPal has been divorced by eBay. I mean a 6 month period for the raising of a claim? That’s a joke. Thankfully gone.

The eBay community forum is a very useful read to get some hints and tips on avoiding selling pitfalls and dealing with time wasters, fraudsters and general bollockbrains

 

[Warrior]

Agree ..it is one of the worst features of eBay for honest sellers. I have recently started clearing out a load of collectibles and have sold around 200 items since mid Summer mainly in the £30 price bracket and had no problems whatsoever selling via BIN, no offers, no refunds and requiring instant payment.

However earlier experiences with higher value items gave a few problems with buyers who paid and then complained that something very minor wasn’t right and asked for a partial refund with clear intention of reselling at a profit. As you may imagine my responses were short and sweet. Items returned at “buyers” expense but this was clearly a popular scam.

i am much happier with the way I get paid as a seller now that PayPal has been divorced by eBay. I mean a 6 month period for the raising of a claim? That’s a joke. Thankfully gone.

The eBay community forum is a very useful read to get some hints and tips on avoiding selling pitfalls and dealing with time wasters, fraudsters and general bollockbrains

Ebays return and cancellation policies are far too liberal, the tail wags the dog.

I had a buyer one time purchase an item, leave me positive feedback, then initiate a return, the reason was "these items are reissues, not originals, seller did not state this in the listing."

Umm.........YES I DID; I clearly wrote in the listing description "the orange colored figures are originals, the red colored figures are reissues".........................

Yes; all of this nonsense over some plastic Marx figures.

Ebay sided with the buyer, I had to pay for the postage back AND refund him the postage from me to him.

He's one of those "flippers" you see all the time; some nickel and dime hustler toy soldier salesman wannabee, ran into him in Chicago several times, goes around and dumps this load of **** on sellers "Oh, I need this item to complete my collection, can you give me a better price"...........then he hauls the goods home and flips then on Ebay.

A grade A ****head.

I refunded him his money and blocked him as a buyer.

He then tried to buy an item from me using a different Ebay account; I recognized the ship to address as his, cancelled the sale "I do not ship to that address"................

Again, Ebay needs to tighten up their cancellation and return policy, they are both way too liberal.

 

[Malcolm Britain]

I find it hard to believe that these dirty rotten scoundrels actually make any serious cash on the flip. Wouldn’t it be more profitable to spend the time doing some paid work? Or maybe they just get a kick out getting one over on someone else?

Either way there is a touch of the Wild West about the Bay.

 

[Warrior]

I find it hard to believe that these dirty rotten scoundrels actually make any serious cash on the flip. Wouldn’t it be more profitable to spend the time doing some paid work? Or maybe they just get a kick out getting one over on someone else?

Either way there is a touch of the Wild West about the Bay.

You can't fathom the number of flippers there are out there, they are everywhere, love the hat in hand "Oh gee, could you offer me some consideration on this item, it's been on my wish list for a long time" then you cave and two seconds later, they flip it.

I see them carpet bombing Facebook toy soldier pages, never once contributing to the conversations, just bashing people over the head with non stop pictures of the latest item they are trying to sell, mostly at comically overinflated rip off prices.

How anyone falls for that is beyond my comprehension, but P.T. Barnum was right sadly.

It's an easy game to play; you go to a show, see an item you have already but see it's a tad underpriced, so this brilliant idea pops into your head "Gee, if I buy this, I can easily sell it on Ebay and make myself 5.00/10.00/15.00"..........................then they keep doing it.

Over and over and over.

I've always been one to say leave the selling to the professionals, but there are those who insist they give it a go; those are usually the ones who two years down the line have a basement/loft/garage/second house full of items they bought and intended to flip, but it didn't quite work out for them.

There used to be a member here who was the king of flipping/conning people, thankfully he crawled back into the hole he came from, pretty sure he's out of the hobby at this stage.

Gee, what a shame, he's sorely missed..............:rolleyes2:

 

[Regnar Rick]

I see them carpet bombing Facebook toy soldier pages, never once contributing to the conversations, just bashing people over the head with non stop pictures of the latest item they are trying to sell, mostly at comically overinflated rip off prices.

The destroyer of FB pages...love when they post pics of items and then never list price...no wonder since who the heck is going to pay 100% markup!!!:rolleyes2: