I love ebay sometimes...

[HaPpYfAcE]

a guy recently bought a wii from me on ebay. the ass won the auction then emails me like 10 minutes later and says he doesnt want it. i tell him that its too late because he already won, so he replies with, okay, payment is on the way. then he tells me that he is not going to buy the wii and somehow its my fault because i filed a non-paying bidder claim on his account even though he won and didn't pay me. some ebayers are just so retarded.

so does that mean you still have it?
:lol:


i had a similar experience with someone a while back. i usually put in the auction that payment must be made w/in 3 business days or you must let me know that payment is on the way w/in that time frame.

someone emailed me and said they were mailing it. i said ok. waited a few more days, still nothing. tried contacting them again to no avail and left them neg feedback. never got the payment and i got my first ever negative feedback because of the douche who didn't like that i gave him one.

[Maengelito]

no i sold it to someone else

[Dave]

I really don't have many bad ebay stories and for the most part like using it. Craigslist is alright, but it's so hit-or-miss that I prefer ebay over it.
I'd say I do a majority of my online shopping on Amazon, supplemented by Ebay and the occaisional Craigslist search.

[HAULN-SS]

I can't really complain with ebay. The biggest thing I bought was a guitar amp, which i sold for 30$ less 4 years later.

And for craigslist - I sold my blazer on there with just about no haggling, and bought my house off of it.

[.RJ]

So what I paid for finally showed up.... not a big deal, but this guy was a real asshat so the neg feedback stays - and he dinged me - which I still dont understand - I paid as soon as the auction was over so I held up my end of the agreement. I do not understand that shit.

[Kaan]

just put a comment under his negative feedback that says "I paid as soon as the auction was over, seller posted negative here because of his poor shipping habbits."

[Apoc]

The seller should be forced to provide feedback before you can. I just bought a PS2 cable off ebay and was notified "out automated system will provide feedback as soon as you leave yours." In other words, if I leave positive, I get positive. So stupid.

[Evan]

The seller should be forced to provide feedback before you can. I just bought a PS2 cable off ebay and was notified "out automated system will provide feedback as soon as you leave yours." In other words, if I leave positive, I get positive. So stupid.

+1

Its set up in the best interests of the seller

[Maengelito]

The seller should be forced to provide feedback before you can. I just bought a PS2 cable off ebay and was notified "out automated system will provide feedback as soon as you leave yours." In other words, if I leave positive, I get positive. So stupid.

+1

Its set up in the best interests of the seller

not always, the asshat i was dealing with won the auction for the wii and did not pay for it. i actually have forgotten to leave him negative feedback until i saw this thread was revived so i will do so when i get home. but basically, he will ping me with a negative because his wife wouldnt let him buy it. i got my final value fee back, but the extra money spent on getting it featured isnt refunded so i get a negative and i lose $40 on the auction plus the item sold for less the second time then it did to this ass probably because they saw my item relisted.

[Ginger]

So, really, the entire feedback system needs reform.

[Evan]

Maeng there is a different process to report non-paying bidders, its not just feedback.
Unless they have changed it in the past couple of years, it is supposed to put a fairly serious ding on the deadbeat bidders account. (2 times and the account gets booted IIRC)
and let you relist your item for no cost.

[Maengelito]

yeah, i already put a non-paying bidder ping on his account which if he receives 2 of in 90 days he gets booted. and yes, you get to relist your item at no cost, but the listing fee is like what 40 cents or something. its all those other gallery and featured now plus and all that other crap that costs money. that you dont get back. plus with the wii, i had intentionally waited until before xmas to sell it, so it was certainly a time sensitive item where waiting another week would've probably affected its selling price.

[G.Irish]

Speaking of the devil:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/ebay-sellers-ri.html">http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/ ... rs-ri.html</a><!-- m -->

Its funny to read all of the angry sellers bitching and moaning about how now they can't retaliate against bad buyers. I am happy that now sellers cannot retaliate against me for leaving them negative feedback after I paid promptly in full.

Recently I bought a laptop off ebay and paid less than 5 minutes after I won the auction. The seller was prompt and emailed an invoice the same day and emailed me to let me know that they had shipped the laptop...but asked for me to leave positive feedback and they will do the same. First I asked for the tracking number and second I told her that I had fulfilled my part of the bargain and she needs to leave me positive feedback. I would give her feedback after I received the item and determined it was as described.

She complied, but I find that far too often seller play that game of feedback chicken. I'm glad ebay is doing something about it. I think to be fair to sellers though, that the feedback system should include some way to show that sellers shipped the items, so at the very least a potential buyer could see that the item was shipped on time, even if a previous buyer wasn't happy with the outcome.

In the end though I think that as a seller if you do right by your customers, by and large they will do right by you. There's no need to be afraid of customers on feedback if you post a clear and well-documented auction and you ship the product correctly and promptly.

A lot of sellers might be pissed about the changes but really, where are they gonna go? Craigslist?

[CaptainHenreh]

My one iPAQ has a 0 feedback guy from the Russian Republic bidding on it.

This will end badly, I fear.

"Hellos to American Citizen! I am shown to be the winning bidder for your

HP iPAQ RX1950 Barely Used

Please be finding in the US POSTAL SERVICE mailings a money order for $4,000 AMERICAN DOLLARS from my purchasing agent. Please be cashing these moneys order and returning to me the change. MANY I LOVE YOUS!"

[G.Irish]

I usually specify US only when I have auctions for that reason. And for a somewhat expensive item I would state that users with less than 5 feedback will have their bids removed. Problem solved.

[CaptainHenreh]

Well, I have "ships to US only" on there, so I'll probably just cancel his bid.

[BLINGMW]

there, fixed it for ya

[Mike]

mikey just hit 100 feedback. have had 0 issues in all of those transactions. not sure why people think ebay is the devil...

[HaPpYfAcE]

mikey just hit 100 feedback. have had 0 issues in all of those transactions. not sure why people think ebay is the devil...

it's not ebay that's the devil...it's the "feedback chicken" as described in the link posted earlier. i hate that there's nothing ebay will do when it's obvious someone has left you poor feedback because they didn't perform on their end and you left them a neg. hopefully what they will do is just add a counter to people's profiles that shows the amount of NPB dings they have.

hock:

[HAULN-SS]

So - what if you just refuse to leave feedback? That's generally what I do