eBay - nice company

[shavey]

Points taken on board fellas.

I'll admit, then, that they are a very efficient morally bankrupt lying thief-helping bunch of slimy reptile scum.

 

NFG, don't even get me started on PayPal! Mr. Deep of Sahara Close in Leicester, trying to buy car parts for you boy racer pimpmobile with my hard-earned cash, your time will come my friend....

 

 

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:001_rolleyes:

[bobh]

Hi,

 

You took your time, I stopped buying/selling with them years ago, in the beginning and early 00's it was fun and fairly trouble free. Then the money rolled in, they jacked up prices, gave buyers far too much sway with being able to reverse charges at the slightest whim & ignoring all common sense usually with a threat of account suspension.

 

The other polished turd in the bowl is their PayPal UK (not) as it is run from Luxembourg not even in the frikkin EU and hence no UK or any other protection.

 

 

N

 

Umm...... I think if you do about 30 seconds research you'd find that Luxembourg is one of the founding members of the EU in 1952 and has been a member of the euro zone since its inception.

As for protection, its buyer protection gives me the confidence to use PayPal (and hence eBay) without people having this confidence eBay would partially if not totally collapse with the loss of many peoples businesses

[Mark Bolam]

Shame they're not so hot on cooperating with the police when crimes are reported.

 

 

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[NFG]

Points taken on board fellas.

I'll admit, then, that they are a very efficient morally bankrupt lying thief-helping bunch of slimy reptile scum.

 

NFG, don't even get me started on PayPal! Mr. Deep of Sahara Close in Leicester, trying to buy car parts for you boy racer pimpmobile with my hard-earned cash, your time will come my friend....

 

 

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Hi Mark,

 

Agreed, perhaps it should be called Thief-Bay as the number of scams going on under its glossy exterior is scandalous.

 

Problem is they answer to no one, but one day Mr Deep will get his comeuppance but I wouldn't put money on PC plod catching them.

 

 

N

[Daniël Bos]

don't even get me started on PayPal! Mr. Deep of Sahara Close in Leicester, trying to buy car parts for you boy racer pimpmobile with my hard-earned cash, your time will come my friend....

 

 

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I had an unsatisfying transaction on eBay that cost me some money.

I set up a new account, then set up an alert to send me an email when the -person- listed anything for sale.

I'd nearly forgotten about it when 18 months later: ping! -person- is selling stuff. I bought everything he had for sale, he sent it all in one parcel, with one tracking number. I then reported to have only received one item (the cheapest...), not the 20-odd I'd bought.

Que some messaging to and fro, an ebay complaint case etc then a refund for 19 items. I'd intended to sell them on to reclaim my money but in the end I just chucked it all in the bin, happy with my revenge,

[Stereo]

Up until June I ran a business built largely around eBay selling tools and machinery but we had to stop in the end. People are now just using it to get new stuff for free and there is nothing the seller can do. We had a load of old damaged stock that we sold off on auction when we packed it in. One was an oil filled radiator with a dent in the control panel. I listed it as spares or repairs and 'not working'. The guy wanted to pick it up so turned with cash. I said I hadn't tested it but it would probably be fine with a bit of tickling.

 

He just said 'I'm not bothered. If it doesn't work I'll buy a new one off eBay and claim it was damaged, then send this one back for refund'. That, in a nutshell is what is going on and it's getting worse. eBay of course will back them all the way and just put a hold on your money until they eventually side with the buyer.

 

The one thing it is useful for is getting high value items out there. Just put them on a 10 day auction and do a cash deal before if you can. I just sold a chicken house like this. Could probably have got £50 more on an auction but I would then be waiting for the buyer to put in the slightest complaint about a scratch or some other nonsense and then my money is gone with no guarantee of getting either money or house back.

 

It's become a joke really.

[Rob D]

 

He just said 'I'm not bothered. If it doesn't work I'll buy a new one off eBay and claim it was damaged, then send this one back for refund'. That, in a nutshell is what is going on and it's getting worse. eBay of course will back them all the way and just put a hold on your money until they eventually side with the buyer.

 

It's become a joke really.

 

 

But someone like that could do that with any online seller ebay or otherwise? That is not ebay that is online selling.

 

As said - people tend to point at ebay because that is where you can sell if you don't have an e commerce site - but this stuff happens if you sell on the internet be it ebay or otherwise... I get people taking the Mick on the odd order off the website... It's not right but it is the nature of trading over the internet.

[mechtrev]

can't blame ebay for listings that are nicked items, I always look on ebay for items I am looking for then check prices elsewhere online, sometimes as mentioned above at the vendors own site they are cheaper. also useful for obtaining keywords for search engines