The eBay experience thread

[Guest]

I've had some car bargains from eBay Billy. Look at the 305 - not a minter by any stretch but was mine for just over £200. 480 was actually £375 but I haggled the seller down when several faults weren't mentioned. Piazza was a fluke win at £400.

 

If we snap back into the present I'm getting royally annoyed with two buyers who won my stuff for buttons. One hasn't responded to repeated messages about whether he wants the wheels \ is coming to collect \ feels like paying any time soon. Whether he wants to pick up is sort of crucial because it varies the invoice by about £70.

 

The [German] bidder other won my 480 speakers for very little, hasn't paid despite me sending an invoice out straight away and just sends me messages in increasingly broken English about wanting to buy various body panels off the white S. I mean, if he can't stump up £20 for a pair of speakers he asked 1000s of questions about, what hope have I of seeing any cash out of him for the larger stuff?

 

At least the latter buyer has responded. How long can I go with these wheels before relisting them \ weighing them in? I'm getting a bit hacked off really. On the wheel front, I really couldn't give a shit if he responds, and I'd rather he didn't because he lives in Essex and has crap feedback. It's been over a week.

[maxpower]

just relist them and tell ebay that its due to no response from the buyer

[Guest]

just relist them and tell ebay that its due to no response from the buyer

 

Do I just say that on the listing or do I send a message to Customer Services? I've never had this problem before bar some twonk who bid my Aiwa DAT separate up to a silly amount and then baulked when I sent him the invoice.

[reanimation-films]

Buying and selling bikey stuff, I'm mostly in with like mind enthusiasts so its been mostly good, but car stuff, tat, and cheap stuff, clobber, it can go either way. I like to think I'm advanced level savvy so don't get stung too often. However nothing prepared me for the amount of shit generation I got off scambags and dicks selling the l300. horrid experience, came through scratch free in the end but only cos I got totally switched on to the serial scam bag attempter and an OMG actual buyer back up plan man. A bit of old skool customer services, patience and flexibility got it sold and picked up (by a real person) on Boxing day, even the good buyer though had us hanging 2 months while he fixed his tow truck and got off his hols. ironically this was out of ebay thank fcuk! And the last car before that I sold was that Alfa Alfetta kit car, basically sold for just less than teh carbs it had on, we delivered it and he butchered the crap outta it.

The two MOT'd proper cars went on Auto trader.

 

Amazingly I've never bought a car on ebay!

 

Facebook generation everybodies are on ebay and internets now so no escape like the olden days just much more dope and scam dodging!

[maxpower]

just relist them and tell ebay that its due to no response from the buyer

 

Do I just say that on the listing or do I send a message to Customer Services? I've never had this problem before bar some twonk who bid my Aiwa DAT separate up to a silly amount and then baulked when I sent him the invoice.

 

do it on listing when you relist it will ask you why anyway.. and put in your new listing must be collected by blah blah blah that will cover your arse

[andrew e]

Ebay are shite, but touch wood buying or selling its been good. I only tend to sell desirable stuff, and buy undesirable stuff and it works for me. Sold Midget,a Frontera and a Dutton no problems. Saying that I had dealers bumping a howard rotivator to close to there own prices, so I blocked them Got over £400 to a private buyer who kept getting snipped by the CULTIVATOR MAFIA

[eddyramrod]

this year i was hoping to do a few autojumbles to get rid of my accumulated autotat, but (so far) ive been too skint to buy a van

 

Do what I did (if you have room to park it) and buy a caravan with no interior! Cost me a princely 21 quid on ebay, and as it was in Preston I was able to collect within the hour. My ebay-bargain Volvo 740 estate (also from Preston) never once complained about pulling it, even though the loaded van must have weighed the wrong side of two tons!

 

As you can see, I've bought and sold on ebay quite happily! Cars, books, relics from my late parents' estate; and buying: cars, books, loads of model cars, DVDs... Since moving over here I haven't sold anything, it's all been buying, but it's all gone pretty well. My big complaint is that often, when I spot something I want that's a reasonable price... the seller has "UK only" listed under postage, which automatically means I can't bid.

 

BTW, autofive, I did pm you some weeks ago...

[retrogeezer]

this is in my inbox:

On 21 July 2011, the final value fee for fixed price listings (Buy It Now) will be changed to a flat rate of 10%, up to a maximum £40. This new flat fee replaces the current tiered structure, making it simpler and easier for you to calculate up-front the fees you'll pay. As before, you won't pay any final value fee if your items don't sell. The new calculations only apply to items listed or scheduled to start on or after the 21 July 2011.

 

making it simpler and easier for you and shitloads more cash for us!

[TimothyClaypole]

Just about to post the same thing - where's the Ebay bum raping smilie.

[Mr Lobster]

At least the latter buyer has responded. How long can I go with these wheels before relisting them \ weighing them in? .... It's been over a week.

 

Jon, I'm not 100%s sure this is the same on personal eBay (we have some variant of selling manager with it being a business account) but there is a link on each item with a drop down menu which will give you the option of 'report unpaid item' or something. That escalates it to eBay and gets you your final value fee back. Then get 'em relisted and make sure you block the bidder.

[reanimation-films]

this is in my inbox:

On 21 July 2011, the final value fee for fixed price listings (Buy It Now) will be changed to a flat rate of 10%, up to a maximum £40. This new flat fee replaces the current tiered structure, making it simpler and easier for you to calculate up-front the fees you'll pay. As before, you won't pay any final value fee if your items don't sell. The new calculations only apply to items listed or scheduled to start on or after the 21 July 2011.

 

making it simpler and easier for you and shitloads more cash for us!

 

Yeah that boiled my piss a little, It was the fact it was so confusing that i turned a blind eye to final fee calcs! but at 10% you cant forget that, and 4/5% snaffled by PP knock 15% off basically, plus as stated getting decent value is hard, so eDork could be shooting themselves in the foot now...

I'll be trying other outlets first for selling decent stuff. Though its not always easy to guage a price...

[sporty-shite]

At least the latter buyer has responded. How long can I go with these wheels before relisting them \ weighing them in? .... It's been over a week.

 

Jon, I'm not 100%s sure this is the same on personal eBay (we have some variant of selling manager with it being a business account) but there is a link on each item with a drop down menu which will give you the option of 'report unpaid item' or something. That escalates it to eBay and gets you your final value fee back. Then get 'em relisted and make sure you block the bidder.

 

This.

 

Open unpaid item case now, and you can close it after (I think) four days. This automatically refunds your final value fee. I've had to do this twice over the last fortnight after I listed the spares or repair phone that Miss Sporty dunked in pop. First bidder was an Indian scammer. FVF refunded. Second chance offer sent to next bidder down. They responded with buy it now, but haven't paid or responded to messages. I swore i'd never sell another phone on ebay, but one that has been soaked in Robinson's Orange wouldn't really be worth much on cash-your-phone-in-dot-com, would it?

[Guest]

Open unpaid item case now, and you can close it after (I think) four days.

 

OK, one slight problem - I haven't sent him an invoice because I needed to know whether he was picking them up or not. He hasn't bothered to respond.

 

Fuck it, I'll fire one off.