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[ChrisF]

I usually give a week, allowing a weekend (people have proper jobs n stuff), and then just drop an email asking if they've had chance to post it out yet. Rather than the "weres my item i paid u 2 days ago and they havent arrived yet?" that I usually tend to get whenever I sell anything

Responding to emails, I tend to find that people either reply pretty quickly, or dont tend to reply at all, unfortunately.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I really do wonder why I bother selling stuff sometimes.
I sold a DVD on ebay (Buy It Now) to a zero fb buyer. I go to send an invoice & ebay tell me he's no longer registered. Whats really annoying is that I had 2 people watching my auction when I checked before it was sold so I could have sold it to a genuine buyer.
Plus although I got my FVF back instantly I'm still out of pocket due to my listing fee, which wouldnt have been a waste had it sold to a genuine buyer.
I think that if you've got buyers watching your Buy It Now auctions & the someone who buys is no longer registered then ebay should refund your listing fee too because it still could have sold.

[ChrisF]

I think there are some settings you can set on your auctions to restrict people doing that, although I think it might be as useless as "do not allow bids from people with negative feedback scores". Worth looking at the options available though.

I've had similar problems in the past, when I was selling some software I'd written on eBay. I put 50 of them up for sale, next morning, I'd have sold 50 to someone called "dfgjoijhewfondfkgjnsdfkg" who was no longer a registered user.

[MattyD]

Why do people set up (or have robots set up) these fake-bidding accounts then? Is it to enhance the appeal of their own auctions or just for the grief? I could understand if these accounts were shill-bidding on the seller's own auctions but pointless bids on someone else's doesn't make sense

[ChrisF]

Probably if you're selling something similar to them, so your losing bidders end up bidding on their item.

[Lebowski]

Probably if you're selling something similar to them, so your losing bidders end up bidding on their item.

makes a lot of sense pretty ****ty scam though

[toythatkills]

eBay fraudster gets two years for ?45K of theft and freebies

Don't know about you but I think that's way too lenient a sentence. If you compare his spoils to the jail time it's the equivalent of having earned ?22.5K a year, which is what my girlfriend and I were pulling in together with full-time jobs when we first moved in together

He won't get to keep his money, he'll have to pay it back. So really, he's earning zero/yr. Of course, he'll only commit more fraud to pay it back

Plus although I got my FVF back instantly I'm still out of pocket due to my listing fee, which wouldnt have been a waste had it sold to a genuine buyer.
I think that if you've got buyers watching your Buy It Now auctions & the someone who buys is no longer registered then ebay should refund your listing fee too because it still could have sold.

I always thought you could relist the item free if you had a NPB

[MattyD]

He won't get to keep his money, he'll have to pay it back. So really, he's earning zero/yr. Of course, he'll only commit more fraud to pay it back

Assuming he ever does. My best mate works in the magistrates courts and the way he is told to handle fines / compensation / proceeds of crime recovery has completely undermined his faith in the justice system. Basically there's nothing they can do to force them to pay up more than a quid a week. He literally has to send cheques for like ?1.36 every week to the victims of violent assaults etc, which is just prolonging their agony if you ask me. If they won't pay that then all they can do is take it directly from their dole (which they don't need permission for), so if the culprit isn't on the dole it's unlikely they victims will ever get their money back.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

He won't get to keep his money, he'll have to pay it back. So really, he's earning zero/yr. Of course, he'll only commit more fraud to pay it back



I always thought you could relist the item free if you had a NPB

I just relisted it & was charged the same as the 1st time I listed.

[chaoticjelly]

I just relisted it & was charged the same as the 1st time I listed.

They charge the listing fee again to your account, but if it does sell, since its been relisted after an NPB, you'll get an automatic listing fee credit. However if it doesn't sell, you've paid the listing fees twice.. not fair I completely agree, however better than no chance of a listing fee credit at all, and certainly better than a kick in the a**e

[chaoticjelly]

For anyone that would like to take some action against eBay forcing sellers to have Paypal available as a payment method for the Video Games category, and Paypal ONLY for the Video Games : Consoles category, you can send an email complaint to the Office of Fair Trading at the following email address; [email protected]

[mezzanine]

I really do wonder why I bother selling stuff sometimes.
I sold a DVD on ebay (Buy It Now) to a zero fb buyer. I go to send an invoice & ebay tell me he's no longer registered. Whats really annoying is that I had 2 people watching my auction when I checked before it was sold so I could have sold it to a genuine buyer.
Plus although I got my FVF back instantly I'm still out of pocket due to my listing fee, which wouldnt have been a waste had it sold to a genuine buyer.
I think that if you've got buyers watching your Buy It Now auctions & the someone who buys is no longer registered then ebay should refund your listing fee too because it still could have sold.

You could try 'immediate payment required' with your BIN sales. Obv it restricts you to paypal only and might lose you a few impulse buys but it's one solution to never getting paid.

[ascender]

I should have put immediate payment required on my Powerbook auction. Thing closed last Thursday, so I invoiced the guy. Nothing.

Then I see that his feedback is 75% positive, all his negatives are for non-payment. Why do eBay let guys like this carry on, should they not just be binned?

In light of this I sent a payment reminder on Friday. Nothing.

Sent an email yesterday asking if he wants it. I get a reply saying "does it come with an AC adapter and OS X". Both of which are listed in the item description.

Sent him a chaser email this morning. Nothing.

So how long do I give him before I just offer it to someone else? I'm sure eBay will say I need to give him much longer to cough up, but its not the actions of someone who has just won an auction for a laptop they really want to buy, is it? If I was in desperate need of the money I'd be really angry about this, it just seems like those of us who take pride in our eBay reputation and service we provide are always made to suffer for other people abusing it.

[Champloo]

I think there's an option to offer it to the next highest bidder, i'd just do that now, you don't want to deal with someone like that full stop. Of course, check the bid history to make sure that the next highest bidder has decent feedback.

But yeah, I agree, its a piss-take that people like that aren't banned.

[Johnny]

Just a quick PayPal question - if I sell goods (not on eBay) and receive my PayPal payment via a credit card, is it normal for it to take a few days longer to show up in my account?