Ebay Muppet

[Nick Davis]

Got this message yesterday from someone regarding an item of photogrpahic equipment I was selling on eBay.

"I am interested in purchasing this lens but find your starting bid a little over my budget"

I was very tempted to write back and tell him/her to get a better job!!!

[True Blue]

Nick, I have had two instances of this recently. Put a club up for sale with a starting bid of £30 made its way upto £60 with one guy contantantly outbidding everyone else, he wins it and then says he has no money to buy it..what do you do?:mad: Didn't want to force him to buy as he would probably have left negative feedback. Put it back up for sale for a buy it now price of £45, someone bought within 1/2 an hour and then I get an email asking if it doesn't get sold will I accept half the amount?!:eek:
Muppets are rampant on ebay!

[Dabbler]

True Blue, would you have honestly got negative feedback with an idiot like that? Surely your reply to any feedback he put would reveal him to have been a moron?

Nick, as they say, "there's nout stranger than folk". You just have to ride it and ignore him.

[Longshot]

Ebay is beginning to be more hassle than it's worth.

[Creosote]

Ebay is beginning to be more hassle than it's worth.

Yep, I am finding that. Strangely I never had any big probs with Ebay USA but for some reason or other there seems to be a high proportion of low lifes on Ebay UK. I've pretty much given up with it now, just isn't worth the hassle.

[golf_bhoy]

Nick, I have had two instances of this recently. Put a club up for sale with a starting bid of £30 made its way upto £60 with one guy contantantly outbidding everyone else, he wins it and then says he has no money to buy it..what do you do?:mad: Didn't want to force him to buy as he would probably have left negative feedback. Put it back up for sale for a buy it now price of £45, someone bought within 1/2 an hour and then I get an email asking if it doesn't get sold will I accept half the amount?!:eek:
Muppets are rampant on ebay!

Isn't that what a non-paying bidder report is there to prevent? And doesn't the seller always have the last word in feedback fights anyway? Just curious, I've never sold via ebay before.

[McStumpy]

Isn't that what a non-paying bidder report is there to prevent? And doesn't the seller always have the last word in feedback fights anyway? Just curious, I've never sold via ebay before.


Im theory, yes. In practice... ebay don't really give a sh*t, it's very difficult to get "justice". The honest ebayers don't want to risk their 100% feedback rating, and so shy away from "controversy".

[True Blue]

Im theory, yes. In practice... ebay don't really give a sh*t, it's very difficult to get "justice". The honest ebayers don't want to risk their 100% feedback rating, and so shy away from "controversy".

You have hit the nail on the head there!

[M40TT B]

If an eBayer does not pay for the item he/she won, you can file a compalint & eBay will remove there feedback privilages :yes:

This is the easy way around it :yes:

An awful lot of fake sh!t has been on eBay as of late :madw: