More ebay bleedin' woes
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I'm not knocking ebay, just the people who use it to abuse it.. 
It's a fantastic platform for selling stuff to anyone in the world, but there's just so many unscrupulous people on there, it's unreal... :cry: :cry:
I've had a good week on there this week, sold about a grand's worth of items and had positive back for all but one of them..
It's a fantastic platform for selling stuff to anyone in the world, but there's just so many unscrupulous people on there, it's unreal... :cry: :cry:
I've had a good week on there this week, sold about a grand's worth of items and had positive back for all but one of them..
Steve Kish
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I know you can set your parameters but the car had to go and I didn't want a restrictive market .... all self-inflicted, I suppose! :?
weeman_mtb
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Trouble with selling on Ebay is the removal of a seller's right to leave a negative. Terrible buyers who exploit sellers and happily throw about negatives seemingly have a perfect feedback.
I've only sold about a dozen items on there and luckily dealt with good people apart from one who didn't pay for a week but had a good feedback score. His "feedback left for others" was nearly all negative just because he could, total tw*t. Luckily he didn't do the same to me and I wasn't prepared to add another feedback to his score either.
Most of my Ebay experience has been great though and I wouldn't be without it.
I've only sold about a dozen items on there and luckily dealt with good people apart from one who didn't pay for a week but had a good feedback score. His "feedback left for others" was nearly all negative just because he could, total tw*t. Luckily he didn't do the same to me and I wasn't prepared to add another feedback to his score either.
Most of my Ebay experience has been great though and I wouldn't be without it.
As somebody who's only ever bought on ebay, I've got mixed feelings about it.weeman_mtb":2hau1o0a said:
I've only ever negged sellers for truly deserving reasons (like the only way you've got your money back, after no delivery, or intent to send, was by claiming). The only time I've ever got a neg was from a big volume seller who looked like everything was going wrong - he was soon NARUd, I didn't receive what I order, nor got any response to emails and messages so put in a claim. I won got my funds refunded, he never even replied to the claim. I left him a neg (quite rightly - as did many people at the time), and got a retaliatory neg back (this was a few years back), plus a claim for non-payment and an automatic strike.
I successfully overturned the claim and strike, but ebay would not remove the neg feedback, even though he'd done the same to many people at that time, and they yanked his business account. That was what was wrong the feedback system, then - there was no way that benefitted anybody for me to receive a neg for that. True enough, it's not like it hurt, 'cept for the principle of the thing, but all the same...
weeman_mtb
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Yes Neil I agree that negs in retaliation were a bad thing and it's good that we can now leave totally honest feedback without trashing our own score. It's just the small minority of scumbags that spoil it like a lot of things in life.
People on both sides have unrealistic expectations.
I am selling a few bits on Ebay currently (not through my account, if anyone on here is wondering I still won't do Paypants). They're my dad's large items of furniture, as he's moving to a smaller house. Instead of dumping them, I'm listing them at £1 each, no reserve with all the proceeds going to charity.
One of the items was a piano. Someone with zero feedback sent me a message asking if I'd post it. :shock: I blocked them but now, the person who won my piano (for £1, with the proceeds to our local dogs home) isn't paying up. I'll still have to donate £1 to charity, but out of my own pocket. That can't be right, can it?
Likewise, sellers think they can sell anything. They list things that they know are no good, and do everything they can to trick people into bidding.
So, in order to be successful, everyone that uses Ebay will have to change, but they won't. I think with all these things, it's the lack of face-to-face contact that messes it up. People think they're anonymous on computers, however wrong that is it will always encourage thoughtlessness.
I am selling a few bits on Ebay currently (not through my account, if anyone on here is wondering I still won't do Paypants). They're my dad's large items of furniture, as he's moving to a smaller house. Instead of dumping them, I'm listing them at £1 each, no reserve with all the proceeds going to charity.
One of the items was a piano. Someone with zero feedback sent me a message asking if I'd post it. :shock: I blocked them but now, the person who won my piano (for £1, with the proceeds to our local dogs home) isn't paying up. I'll still have to donate £1 to charity, but out of my own pocket. That can't be right, can it?
Likewise, sellers think they can sell anything. They list things that they know are no good, and do everything they can to trick people into bidding.
So, in order to be successful, everyone that uses Ebay will have to change, but they won't. I think with all these things, it's the lack of face-to-face contact that messes it up. People think they're anonymous on computers, however wrong that is it will always encourage thoughtlessness.
I hope this "buyer" isn't getting his hands on the piano, though?chris667":2ksu16ps said:
For big things, I've had better success with local papers. Some have free adverts for under £100 (like a supplement once a week, type thing).
Just another thought, my parents have had some charities actually take / remove big items of furniture as donations, not sure which charities, though, might have been Barnardos or Salvation Army.
