Bad eBay experience?
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- Kiko0
I've bought hundreds of things off eBay in the UK. In fact, I buy nearly everything online from eBay, and I have never had a problem, either buying or selling.
I have returned items and got refunds, or reported a damaged item and gotten a refund.
- inteliboy0
Trying to sell an iphone.
Each time it has sold it has been a fake account or a fake/accidental buy. 4 times now. And apparently I owe ebay money for fees.
Fuck ebay.
- prophet0
I buy quite a bit, havent sold tho. No problems. One guy didnt ship for two weeks but emailed to apologize but it wasnt a prob. You have to be smart, no stupid bids, read the listing completely and youll be good imo.
- prophet0
Also, people need to use the advanced search completed listings feature to edumacate themselves. It gives you a great idea of current market value for that snoopy sno cone machine youre about to buy.
- MrMackem0
Sold a pair of trainers to a guy in the US.
Two weeks later he asked for a refund, to his address in Nigeria, as he didn't think postage to Nigeria from the UK wasn't as 'trustworthy' as it was from the UK to Nigeria via the US.
And a refund of the postage from the UK to USA, USA, to South Africa, South Africa back to the UK.
Plus the difference in exchange rates which he said he lost out on.
I got the trainers back. And his refund (without the extra postage shit) i gave him was refunded back to me via paypal - as his account was 'unverified'.
Win Win.
- Projectile0
I got badly screwed over last year
Wasn't happy with a camera, so offerend to buy a pricier one. Was in a hurry (xmas pressie) so bought new one and sent old one back. It gets returned to sender. ffs. So I contact him and he doesnt know why, here send it to my gf's house. ok... again returned to sender.
So I try filing a complaint thru ebay. But by the time I realised he was fucking with me, it was past ebay's period of being able to claim. So I go to paypal. No no, I have an open case regarding this item with ebay. ffs the case seems pretty shut to me.
Then I post it one last time, and it gets "lost" in the post. It's unsured up to £50 with royal mail, so I file a claim. Via snail mail.. not possible to do online even.
And that was the end of that. No information on who to contact or anythign and I'm so over this shit I can't be bothered
- kalkal0
I once bought some RAM a few years ago, from what seemed to be a pretty big store with great feedback. Got the RAM, it didn't work. They didn't send a refund or a replacement and ebay didn't do anything about it. Never bothered with ebay after this.
My dad bought a stereo system a month ago, which was labeled as first class delivery. He still doesn't have it and I opened a dispute to get the money back. Still waiting on that too.
I just think it's not worth wasting time on ebay.
- maikel0
I bought fairly expensive items without a problem, also good for cheap ones. I reckon that you outta be careful about who you make deals with and that's it.
The closest I was to a bad experience was the purchase of a Canon Mark II which arrived with a loose part. I was offered a new one instead or a full refund, but I lost some money shipping the faulty one back to the seller. However, all in all worked out about 15% cheaper than buying it at cheapest high street retailer.
I could find a single non-counterfeit senheisser earphone, but I always got refund.
I also sold many things... from a telly to a sofa! much better than gumtree, where you almost always get a shady chap bargaining you about the agreed price.- How would you suggest people be careful? Only buy from small sellers? Big sellers?kalkal
- I mean, looking at feedback is obvious, but that never helped me...kalkal
- But oh yeah, ebay is great for selling stuff!kalkal
- best sellers need positive feedback to keep their rating. quite unlikely they will fuck you up...maikel
- ...mind you, here in britain it works a lot better than in the states...maikel
- fooler20
I've bought a couple dozen things off of ebay. Usually records, graphic T's and small electronics. Probably the most expensive thing I bought was a $400 G-Shock from Japan and that sale went great.
The only bad things that has happened was I've received a few bad bootleg vinyls. They play fine but have no collectors value.
I also bout a fake pair of Bang & Olufsen A8 Earphones from over seas.
It was such a bad copy and sounded so shitty I gave him a negative review and said he was selling counterfeit merchandise and so he gave me this negative review in "engrish"
"flagitious despicable bayer becarefull it" Seller: sunnymoling (private)
No longer a registered user
- scarabin0
sold some action figures, got sick, ended up in the hospital and was unable to ship them out on time. lady went crazy and reported it to paypal, who shut down my account and refuses to talk to me about any of it.
this was like 6 years ago. to this day they still will not talk to me
- lnu0
I've bought a lot of stuff, a couple of cameras from Hong Kong, american guitar parts, books, sneakers, cheap watches.
I've only had one problem with a guy not sending me a pair of sneakers - I just opened a cese with ebay and I got my money back from paypal in a couple of days.
- pillhead0
Buying is not a problem, it's when you want to sell an item it go's tits up. Ebay makes you send your item out before you get the money is ridiculous idea, then on top of all that PayPal steps in and decides to withhold your payment for a month if it over a surtain amount because you have not used the account for a year, but it's been open for 7 fucking years you morons.
- Did they start doing this recently? I haven't sold anything in probably 4 months or so but that wasn't tthe case then? Did it change?theredmasque
- did policy change? that's really screwed up. I would never sent something out w/o $ firsttheredmasque
- That what happened to me, if you have not used your account within a 6 month period, and you sale an item worth over £100 PayPal will hold the funds until you get positive feedback, or the buy has confirmed he has received the product.pillhead
- SteveJobs0
had a couple bad experiences about 10 years ago, but have since bought and sold hundreds of things on there. it's not a perfect system, but if you're trying to find something, it's likely that it's on there and cheaper than anywhere else.
- PIZZA0
We should just block Nigeria from using the real internet, give them their own and they can just spend all day trying to scam each other and leave us alone.
- 5timuli0
My ex-wife sold a Coach purse on eBay for $350. Receiver got the parcel, even left good feedback. Then a week later called her credit card company to say the purchase was not authorized. PayPal/eBay sided with her and took the $350 out of her account. In the end: no purse, no money, no recourse.
PayPal can do anything they want with your money without telling you. It's in the fine print (which nobody reads). Be wary of them and NEVER send any goods without insurance/signature confirmation.
- Hombre_Lobo_20
As far as i know if you buy through paypal you are very safe.
Also its worth noting if an item is for sale and has a 'No returns accepted' policy, you can buy it through paypal and if there are any problems, even if it is only a tiny bit different from the description, you can indeed return it.
Paypals policies for returning goods trump ebays policies. It doesnt matter if the buyer has sold it with a no returns accepted policy.
At least thats the info i found for the UK. Its a good thing.
- iheartfun0
I had a pretty bad one. Bought a Sony SDHC memory card for my camera. When it got to me they thing didnt work. Did some research on the error message that it was giving me and found out only by going through Sony that it was a fake.
I had a hard time trying to get through ebay's stupid guarantee program or finding a way to contact them since all it wanted you to do was file a claim with the person. I had already had some choice words with them. So when Sony got involved they got scared and refunded all my money back. Plus shipping.
- scribbler0
I've always had a pretty good experience with eBay. The whole Nigerian thing is something you have to watch out for - lots of people say that they won't accept bids from anyone in Nigeria especially for high value items like iPhones etc.
I had one bad experience when selling my old 3G iPhone. Basically the guy that bought it said it didn't work - it works fine, he just didn't activate it in iTunes.... anyway - he opened a case against me and it turned into a complete nightmare trying to sort it all out.
In short, eBay is great if everything goes as it should do. As soon as something happens that's not meant to - it's a bluddy nightmare.
- comicsans0
^ In the UK, for UK sellers, threaten to get trading standards involved, also hint you'll contact the inland revenue. For fakes either threaten to contact the manufacturer or actually do so (along with trading standards). I have had trading standards even interested in UK based email scams.
