please excuse my stupidity......

[Tamworthbay]

.... but when I put 'collection in person only' I didn't mean 'collection in person only but of course I will waste my time sourcing boxes big enough for an entire interior and wait around like an idiot whilst your courier lies to me about when they will turn up'

 

What is it with these ebay muppets? It's only a fiver item and I would have binned it but would rather it go to so eone who would make use of it. Now I just wish I had skipped it.

[PiperCub]

Had similar a couple of years back, sold a set of alloys. Collection from my house only due to size/weight and I have no way of packing them anyway.

 

Got (IIRC) eight separate emails - along the lines of:  'Yeah, I'll 'ave 'em m8 - how much to <insert town name>?'

 

Which part of collection only don't you get, retard?

 

Incredibly, one lazy twat was less than 15 miles away.

[UltraWomble]

I know your pain.

 

I will however, email sellers and ask if they are willing to let me arrange a courier - currently I'm after a kayak and there have been none of the ones I want nearby, so I will ask if they are willing to let me courier - if they say no, that's an end to it.

[jakebullet]

I had a collect only winner tell me he would come and collect..... in 3 months next time his ship was here. Er, no.

[outlaw118]

I've flogged a few things as collection only, but normally put in the proviso that if they want to arrange their own courier, there will be a charge for packaging and handling. 

I learnt the hard way with a set of Alloys that ended up in Finland, what a faff that was!

[Bren]

I usually say do not ask me to put them on a pallet - I dont have any or any banding equipment.

[Sealtainn]

I remember selling a rear bench from a Mk6 RS2000 on eBay with "Collection only" and the winning (and only bidder) who won it for 99p then informs me he lives 125 miles away and could I post it. If you have enough nous to be able to read the ad title, description and drag your knuckles off the floor long enough to click "Bid" then why can you not read "Will not post - Collection Only"???? I wrapped it in cardboard and surreptitiously took some of the weight when I had it on the scales at the Post Office so they delivered it for about £8 IIRC.

[fred]

I do tend to say ''COLLECTION ONLY'' several times but mouth breathers still ask - Its like selling to Zombies sometimes

[dave21478]

Everything goes to the dump now. Its sad for those genuine buyers who might be looking for whatever I am selling, but the level of stupidity and greed I encounter every time I sell something cheap makes me want to commit violence.

Life is literally too short to waste any of it dealing with tards who cant or wont read three lines of text in an advert.

[mercrocker]

I flatly refuse to deal with couriers and say so in my listings.  Occasionally a brain-dead gets through the net but I cancel the transaction if that happens.   Not one precious minute of my remaining lifespan will I ever, ever, sit and wait for a lying parcel company's hard-pressed driver trying to keep an impossible schedule.   Another thing that ticks me off is when a buyer says "My mate Kevin wants the workbench.  Can you phone him on 0800-MONGTARD"   Well, yes I CAN but why the fuck don't you tell him my number which I have already given you and why didn't he bid on it himself?   I mostly just sell postcards on Ebay now - the buyers seem to be a cut above the usual pond life.

[New POD]

about 3 years back, I sold my brother in law's Volvo estate towbar, to a German Bloke registered in Berlin. His ebay history was that he'd bought Volvos and Volvo parts from all over Europe.

He phoned me, and told me "I'll come on Sunday afternoon, between 1 and 2 pm. I'll phone you when I leave the boat"

Sunday comes and I get a phone call to say "I'm just off the Boat, I'll be there in an hour and a half"

 

I was unconvinced.  

 

two hours later he turns up (in a Volvo) and asks to be pointed to the nearest cash point, as he only has Euro's.

 

Turns out he has a house and wife on West Coast Ireland, and spends 2 weeks in Ireland followed by 2 weeks in Berlin.

 

His last words to me was "My ferry from Dover is at 7 pm, I should just make it "

My last words to him "You are mad. It's nearly 300 miles and It's going to take you until about 9 pm even if you drive like a nutter.

 

I had an email later saying he'd made the ferry with 10 mins to spare.

[New POD]

I also had a great deal buying a new old stock cavalier petrol tank with "Collection Only"

 

I contacted the guy in Devon, saying I'd bid on it if he could sort out postage for under £20. Which he did. £36 in total, because who is arsed to go to Devon.

[PiperCub]

I flatly refuse to deal with couriers and say so in my listings.  Occasionally a brain-dead gets through the net but I cancel the transaction if that happens.   Not one precious minute of my remaining lifespan will I ever, ever, sit and wait for a lying parcel company's hard-pressed driver trying to keep an impossible schedule.   Another thing that ticks me off is when a buyer says "My mate Kevin wants the workbench.  Can you phone him on 0800-MONGTARD"   Well, yes I CAN but why the fuck don't you tell him my number which I have already given you and why didn't he bid on it himself?   I mostly just sell postcards on Ebay now - the buyers seem to be a cut above the usual pond life.

 

Same here, while some of the delivery drivers are idiots, most are real hard-working, poorly paid folks who are thrashed to death by greedy parcel companies who have them running around like the proverbial BAF on speed trying to keep with the aforementioned stupid, impossible schedules. Have a couple of friends who've done it in the past few years, they report it's really the job from hell these days. (I did it as a student many years ago and it was quite fun and relaxed but that was before mobile phones, GPS tracking, rampant greed, etc).  

[EssDeeWon]

The grumpy thread.

 

Thats all.

[CHRIS1980]

Smash fuck out of it,wrap it up badly and when they winge you can tell them they should have picked it up.

[fordperv]

It is annoying, i was selling a set of freshly refurbished escort cosworth alloys with new tyres and I stated collection only, the amount of people that asked me to post was unbelievable. On the flip side it annoys me when looking for something that could be easily wrapped and posted and it's collection only because the lazy sod can't be arsed to go to the post office. I tend not to bid on them though. When they don't sell then email the seller asking about postage.

[Tamworthbay]

Same here, while some of the delivery drivers are idiots, most are real hard-working, poorly paid folks who are thrashed to death by greedy parcel companies who have them running around like the proverbial BAF on speed trying to keep with the aforementioned stupid, impossible schedules. Have a couple of friends who've done it in the past few years, they report it's really the job from hell these days. (I did it as a student many years ago and it was quite fun and relaxed but that was before mobile phones, GPS tracking, rampant greed, etc).

 

I worked as a motorbike courier several summers when I was a student. They work you ridiculously hard for very little cash. They also don't give a shit about your safety. I got a bollocking once for refusing to do a run at 9pm which would have taken about 6 hours, I had already been working since 6am. No way was I doing that on a bike. 15 hour days were normal with no more than ten minutes at a time off the bike. Then other days you would get nothing.

[Bren]

I worked as a motorbike courier several summers when I was a student. They work you ridiculously hard for very little cash. They also don't give a shit about your safety. I got a bollocking once for refusing to do a run at 9pm which would have taken about 6 hours, I had already been working since 6am. No way was I doing that on a bike. 15 hour days were normal with no more than ten minutes at a time off the bike. Then other days you would get nothing.

Bollocking? If somebody had bollocked me for that they would have been the first ever human being to shit a motorcycle.

[doobietoo]

I sell the odd thing on ebay and if I say collection only I state that I will not release the item until I have positive feedback .... seems to keep the tards at bay....

[Tamworthbay]

Bollocking? If somebody had bollocked me for that they would have been the first ever human being to shit a motorcycle.

my response was less than polite and they were pissed off when I walked out, but all the companies were the same. Loads of the guys in vans and on bikes were doing crazy hours. If you refused you wouldn't get work. I only did it as a summer job but would have been hell long term.

[Eddie Honda]

I worked as a motorbike courier several summers when I was a student.

Pffft! Fair weather couriers.

 

I used to work with one. Came down in spring form up north and lived in a caravan until the end of autumn. Nicknamed "Dyson" as while he was around there no "loss of suction" to his hoovering up of all the decent work.

 

I worked year-round for five years; rain, shine, hail, snow. Started in Glasgow, November 1995. December was 'king freezing that year. Boxing day was a very slow trip home from a mate's house as although it was dry, it was also -20 C and the carb kept icing up.

 

It was great blatting around during the summer round London, it was shit the rest of the year. There were easier ways to make money, but at the time it kept me in beer at the weekends.

 

Here's one of my past despatch tools:

GT550 by E Honda, on Flickr

[Lankytim]

I sold a Triumph 2.5 lump once and was dismayed to find the winning bidder was from Austria. A week later he turned up in a Chrysler Voyager, collected it and paid me cash. Nice guy. He was touring the U.K picking up bits for his Triumph TR5. Unfortunately he got Newcastle Upon Tyne and Newcastle Under Lyme mixed up so he was mega late for his next collection.