Lots of Misleading Firewood Ad's on Ebay

[farmer_ben]

Just done a 50 radius search from mine for firewood and am amazed by the amount of sellers misleading potential buyers by stating bulk bags are 1 ton of wood and 1 cubic metre etc, is also someone less then 5 miles from my selling a pick up load stated as 1 ton of logs.

 

Is it only a matter of time before this misleading advertising is clamped down on?

 

I may be wrong and the sellers are weighing each load, but i doubt it. Surely the only way we can advertising sensibly is by volume?!

[Treemon]

I know what you mean round us it seems to be under cutting our prices that is the favourite sport , one stated 1 metre cube vented bags of seasoned hardwood at £45 (we are at £75) so i emailed him for bulk price for 20 cube- awaiting result with £ signs in my eyes!

[hardtop110]

Have a word with your local Trading Standards Office. You can find their location here: Advice - Trading Standards Institute

[skyhuck]

Its very easy to waste a great deal of time worrying about what others are doing, time that IMO is better spent making your goods or service the very best you can produce.

[slasherscot]

Its very easy to waste a great deal of time worrying about what others are doing, time that IMO is better spent making your goods or service the very best you can produce.

 

well said

[eggsarascal]

Just done a 50 radius search from mine for firewood and am amazed by the amount of sellers misleading potential buyers by stating bulk bags are 1 ton of wood and 1 cubic metre etc, is also someone less then 5 miles from my selling a pick up load stated as 1 ton of logs.

 

Is it only a matter of time before this misleading advertising is clamped down on?

 

I may be wrong and the sellers are weighing each load, but i doubt it. Surely the only way we can advertising sensibly is by volume?!

 

Guess you saw mine then, ben

[easy-lift guy]

skyhuck is correct. No one can Pimp your goods or services better than you can. Leave all of the others for the bottom feeders to buy from. The fact that your established and advertising your product means more to the informed consumer than the fly by nighter's will ever know or could.

easy-lift guy

[mendiplogs]

Its very easy to waste a great deal of time worrying about what others are doing, time that IMO is better spent making your goods or service the very best you can produce.

 

HI skyjack your right there mate:thumbup: jon

[Hodge]

Its very easy to waste a great deal of time worrying about what others are doing, time that IMO is better spent making your goods or service the very best you can produce.

 

Well said huck.

[Rob D]

As above they will get found out over time. Keep pushing your quality over their quantity.

 

 

I know someone who was looked at by trading standards for selling bulk bags as cubic meter bags.... a customer had called Trading Standards and complained. Mind you not much happened to them as a result