your ebay nightmares

[Bren]

Anybody had a nightmare with ebay?

 

Have you bought something that turned out to be utter shite after being promised something different?

 

Have you sold a £150 restoration project only to be neg feedbacked' because the fuckwit was disappointed that it was'nt the one owner low mileage mint condition vehicle he was hoping for?

 

I am interested in people experiences - I have not had any (yet), however my friends have had a few incidents - have you?

[dollywobbler]

No problems here. In fact, I've usually done quite well on Ebay. Only problem was buying some Merc W123 headlamps in Germany and the tosser didn't send them, so I negged him and he then negged me back. A sour kraut.

[Shep Shepherd]

My first Volvo, the 1988 240 GL saloon in my signature, which I paid £200 for in late 2002. It was absolute litter, despite looking pretty much immaculate in the photos. I only kept it for six months (and drove it for perhaps four weeks) and had to pay the scrap man £10 to take it away...

 

Thankfully, my next two eBay Volvos have been more or less fine

[Cavcraft]

Some bell end won a listing of mine for a car and had my daughter and I waiting outside the railway station in the pissing ran for forty minutes waiting for him and he never showed up, despite sending me text messages saying he was on his way.

 

I should have just whizzed up to Preston or wherever it was and put his fucking windows through with a selection of bricks and bicycle frames.

[RedSparrow]

Have a look for a thread called 'ebay idiots' on here. Loads of material for you there!

[Negative Creep]

Sold a mk.2 Golf for a friend of mine a few years back. Wasn't mint but very good condition and we were honest with the description. Some prick turned up to buy it, then spent an hour going over the £800 car listing every single minor fault he could find (female friend was on her own when he collected it, she didn't have a clue about cars). He took it then on the 90th day (the last point you could leave feedback in the old days) left me a negative saying I was a conman and the car needed work

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My last transaction on Yahoo Auctions in 1999 involved me being ripped off - I won an auction for an inflatable table and sent a postal order but it never arrived.

 

Sometimes I think back to that and wonder "why oh why was I trying to buy an inflatable table?".

[Negative Creep]

For keeping other inflatable things on?

[DCLane]

Bought a 1989 Volvo 740 estate in 2007 for £300 on eBay. It was just about driveable. Sold back on eBay 3 weeks later with a more honest description for £350.

 

My really bad one was buying a Talbot Samba convertible on eBay in 2007 for £750. It had been MOT'd by the seller's own garage and mine declared it dangerous. Broke down after 6 weeks (of fun ). Sold on R-R for £200 who got it fixed up. When she sold it back on eBay last year I was tempted to buy it back but SWMBO would have killed me.

 

[autofive]

i ve bought quite a few cars on ebay, all of them without viewing first, ive been stiffed a couple of times, but i always expert the worst, and bid accordingly, so rarely lose money on anything i buy.

 

I buy a lot of spares via ebay, and never really had any problems.

selling via ebay is a whole different kettle of fish.

a lot of buyers are dishonest fucksticks who leave a neg and claim a refund if you cant provide proof of delivery (proof of postage is not proof of delivery) and ebay refunds anyone who moans, then sends in the recovery agents to recoup the costs.

 

i havent sold any cars via ebay, usually the reserve isnt met, or i pull the auction before the end. i suspect im too far north for a decent price, and i refuse to give cars away.

[Pillock]

Astra GTE Cabrio.

Had been sat in a grassy field for two years, and during that time had suffered a break-in. Why oh why did I think that it would make a good blind buy?

 

Nightmare.... not because of the seller, he was spot on. But because I was an idiot with some "free" money in my pocket and couldn't be bothered to go and look at it.

[Lord Sterling]

Not a car but some car parts. E-mailed someone about some car parts they were selling for a Rover 825i. As I'd missed out on the previous listings we came to an agreement to which I bought the parts from a B.I.N listing, I noticed a mate also bid on some parts, paid and recieved items. I waited, waited and waited somemore, emailed them to ask where my car parts were, didnt get a reply, even after a few e-mails.

 

I wished I'd negged the bastards. I only gave a "neutral" feedback explaining I had never recieved the items, I dont know why I did that. I also missed the deadline to ask for a refund, despite e-mailing ebay. It wasnt much money though, I think it came to a total of about £17.

[Father Ted]

THIS^^^ was supposed to have been enthusiast owned and in good condition - the catalogue of faults grew and grew and grew, after it caught fire it got scrapped and the donkey ripped out to live on in another. Mind you it only cost £122.

 

THIS ^^^ turned out to have been written off and rebuilt twice and have a twisted front end which resulted in driveshafts lasting all of 2000 miles before they waved the white flag and started knocking.

 

I have not bought a car off ebay since.

 

Sold a couple which had arses not turning up and of course when I sold the caravan I had endless lines of people coming round saying "take it off ebay now I will give you £xxx tonight" and such like. Needless to say they didnt.

[Rod/b]

Ah, a citroen BX...

 

I bought this for our first banger rally.

 

 

It had been owned by an old chap and his brother for years and years who had cared for it and cherished it, usual old bull. So my brother and I travelled from Essex to Aberystwyth to pick it up one Saturday and met the sellers at the station. Deal was done, they buggered off. We gave our purchase a cursory kick of the tyres, jumped in, filled up with pez, stuck the new tax disc in the window and aimed it back towards England.

 

8 miles later the red light of doom came on. It was overheating. We rolled it into a motor factors i knew literally yards from where it had given up, and popped the bonnet. The aux belts were shredded.

 

Bought some new'uns, whacked them on and waited an hour before refilling the coolant.

 

Drove up the road, and 3 miles there was a big bang and the cabin filled with smoke and steam.

 

So, after dumping the car in a layby and flagging a lift back to Aber, getting a hotel for the night, and paying walk-up train prices we ended up back in Essex on the Sunday sans car.

 

I drove back the next week to scrap it and some twat had nicked the tax disc and syphoned the fuel out.

 

Car cost £75, back in the good old days. The whole thing cost me over £500 all told

[Doctormop]

Can anyone point me in the direction of the "ebay idiots" post?

 

Was before my time and have had no joy looking back through previous posts

[autofive]

Can anyone point me in the direction of the "ebay idiots" post?

 

Was before my time and have had no joy looking back through previous posts

 

ebay muppet thread?

http://autoshite.commlm/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1904

[Doctormop]

^^^

Many thanks AF,

 

Had one of those days today where I need to revel in the stupidity of others and ebay tossers seems ideal

[Station]

Just thought I'd post this, as it's the worst offer (for a decent, running freshly taxed/mot'd car) I've had in my life (even including childhood).

It was a 'take your pick' type of thing.

 

micromark mm70175 double spotlights x2 £10 to 25

Malvern 4 person tent £50 to 100

try ang/hornby track £1 to 10

sea fishing items £25 to 50

oil filter for a vauxhall vecta v6 £1 to 10

team saracen mountain bike frame £25 to 50

goodmans cd/mp3 player gce 7013 cd £10 to 25

haynes vauxhall astra manual £1 to 10

Aluminium Box holds 1000 cds/dvd/games ect £25 to 50

trax outrage 26 blke £50 to 100

cannon scorpion 3 part pool cue £ 25 to 50

campingaz lamp £1 to 10

iroda solderpro 120 £1 to 10

air filter for any car £1 to 10

SUPAGARD - FULL AFTERCARE WITH BAG - SUPAGUARD POLISH £400+

nokia 1208 on t-mobile £10 to 25

Dell Dimension 2350 P4 2.50Ghz / 60Gb / 1.0Gb ram(falty easy fix) 2 weeks only as i will be fixing £50 to 100

high efficiency dome tweeters 500w car audio £1 to 10

pro action torre 4 person tent £50 to 100

apple ipod nano 8gb black 5th gen 5 months old £100 to 200

Apollo MX20.2 BMX Bike blue £100 to 150

 

The 1 - 10 pounds thing, means it's worth £1. It's junk the lot of it. A faulty PC, a filter for a Vectra, a snooker cue, two tents, Halfords spot lights, and a 10+ year old mobile phone.

The whole lot equals £200.

 

if u fancy some sort of deal let me know

 

No. No I don't.

[Richard]

That lot looks suspiciously like the spoils of a break-in in somebody's shed/garage.

[autofive]

wow what a pile of crap

 

i'd would have offered him a 99p to 103p off the car for the whole lot