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Why e-bay?
Topic Started: 23 Feb 2009, 02:23 PM (57 Views)
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As soon as anyone mentions the selling of second hand goods `Oh - Have a look on e-bay.` echoes the cry. Never a mention of `Stuff for sale.`or `Preloved.`
Why does everybody automatically think `E-Bay` when it is mentioned about buying or selling.
I am `banned` from e-bay and therefore I don`t have alot of good things to say about them .
Whilst being a member of e-bay - I bid for - and won over 200 items and got no unfavourable feedback.
Paulines car was coming to the end of its sell - by date and I scanned e-bay and spotted one that I thought would suit her as a `Blonded Bombshell` driving along with the hood down and her blonde locks streaming out from under her head square. I asked her if she would like the car and she looked on the screen at the details and pictures and agreed that it was worth the £800 asking price and so I sat having a beer until 9.55pm waiting until 5 mins. before the `shutters` came down and registered the bid . No more bids were registered and I had won the car for £800and rang the number of the owner to arrange collection and payment and was greeted with very loud heavy metal music and nobody spoke even though I shouted down the phone that I had won the car on e-bay - still no reply and eventually they hung up on me. I rang again and again the heavy metal band was playing and I held the handset away from my ear and a voice shouted `Yeah ! What yer want?`
`I`ve won the car.` I replied
`Nothing to do with me mate!` was the reply and they hung up again. I hung up the phone and sat looking at it for a full 5 mins. wondering what to do, when suddenly it started belling again and I picked it up and a woman came on line with the heavy metal band still playing in the background ( but not quite so loudly now.) `I`ve just rung you twice about the car.`
`Yes.` the woman said at the other end. `Sorry about that - it was my teenage son in the other room. He is at that awkward age.My husband is out at the moment and he is selling the car for me . He won`t be long and I`ll get him to ring you when he comes in.`
`OK `I replied and pulled the ring on another Carlsburg Export and sat waiting with the time ticking by and nothing happened . It was getting towards mid-night and I had had enough and so I decided to call it a day and slope off to bed. I picked up the phone and dialled the guy and got no response and so I bellowed down the phone to his `messaging service` ` It`s now nearly half past midnight mister and I`m on duty in the morning in a nursing Home and I withdraw my offer and I don`t wish to buy your p******g car.`
I was awakened in the morning before 6.0am by the bedside phone jangling and I picked it up and got a tirade of abuse in my shell like which was nearly unintelligible as the guy had a bad impediment - he stuttered very badly over nearly every consonent and it took him half an hour to say five minutes. He was very angry and accused me of not being able to pay like alot more on e-bay and he swore and carried on and said he was reporting me to e-bay and I assured him that I certainly was not buying his effing car now. I received a warning from e-bay and a `strike` was made against me on the grounds that if I got away with `Buying` something and then not paying - other people would be encouraged to do the same.
The next week I spotted just what I wanted for Paulines birthday in January - Garnett earings as Garnett is her birthstone. I noted that they were listed from Northern Ireland and I bid for them and won them and then I came to paying for them with a Visa Debit card and the p & p was phenominal - nearly more than the article and when I looked at where they were coming from - they were coming from Hong Kong and I do not want jewellry from Hong Kong and so I refused them and the guy was very angry and reported me to e-bay and I was `banned` and so I buy from Stuff 4 Sale and Pre- loved which no one ever mentions. there is good stuff on Suff 4 Sale and Preloved - do have a look.
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Sorry to hear about your bad experiences with Ebay, Cliff. There are probably more details, but, if I understand you correctly, you won the bid for the car and thereby committed yourself to the business transaction, and subsequently withdrew your offer because you were subjected to rudeness and the seller did not return your call in a timely manner. I suspect a transaction such as this would be frowned upon whether done at Ebay or Stuff For Sale or wherever. I haven't bought many items from Ebay, but I've always communicated with the seller via email. In general, the only thing that matters is that the buyer gets the promised goods and the seller gets the promised payment. Hopefully our diplomatic Lo will add her usual well-rounded perspective.
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I realise what you say Ruum and agree with you but you do not know the character or personality of the seller and therefore they may be a decidedly `bent` person who if you could meet up with them you would shy away from . I paid his fee for advertising the car on the e-bay site , but refused to buy the article when I became aware of what low lifes they were.
On Stuff4Sale I bring up Lincolnshire and purchase from local people and in that way I can meet up with the person `selling` the item and if I have cause to not trust them then I refuse to buy.
I think my reasons for backing out of the E-Bay transactions were genuine and should have been heeded.
They won`t let me back in now.
Cliff/Bunky
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I do believe you can re-enter after a time or under a different name unless they've changed all that.

I see both of your views. It may have been that this was a residence where several drop-outs were living and knew nothing about the eBay item.

E-mail is always the preferred method but the rudeness and disinterest shown towards you would have probably left me feeling equally hesitant to pull out.

It does seem to be a bit black and white. There are a lot of big companies online that make a fortune from our monies and yet seem to lack every facility for customer service so long as they get their cut.

Some folk are hooked on eBay. I find it tedious and absolutely bursting at the seams with bonafide traders who are making an inflated profit - moreso than the highstreet stores are making on the SAME items. Unless you are desperate for a rare collectible item you are met with advert after advert from one seller that go on all down the page - they just let the seller spam the page - it's the same product listed sometimes up to 50 times over so they can stay at the top of the page and that can't be right but again, eBay don't seem to care.

Good concept initially but I would no longer call it an auction site. Traders heaven more like and they ruin it for everyone just as they did with the car boot sales, frankly!

I wouldn't bother gracing them with your custom at all Bunky. See it as a lucky escape! They are a bliddy nuisance, always sending me unsolicited e-mails about their Paypal stuff (which I hear is unsafe anyway).
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