Ebay/Gumtree idiots

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I had to retire from endurance sport earlier this year and I am treading making the same step. Quite a bit of carbon sitting around in the spare room.
Ebay turned into a buyers market full of weirdos, and their buyer protection is so one sided and open to abuse. I think offline is the new online in terms of 2nd hand goods.
 
larmen said:
I had to retire from endurance sport earlier this year and I am treading making the same step. Quite a bit of carbon sitting around in the spare room.
Ebay turned into a buyers market full of weirdos, and their buyer protection is so one sided and open to abuse. I think offline is the new online in terms of 2nd hand goods.
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Buyer protection is a disgrace. You have to offer a higher quality of customer service selling second hand goods than a shop would selling new goods.

I had a three wood returned to me after 4 days with a big diddy mark on the head. The guy claimed it wasn't as described. I could prove to ebay through the pictures I had hosted that it did not leave me in that condition. I refused to refund, eBay found in his favour and refunded him. Ebay chased me to pay them back.

Basically now you can buy any golf equipment you like, try it and send it back if you don't like it!
 
To be fair there are some genuine people out there but you have to avoid the morons first.
When I was looking for a new car earlier this year I saw one up for auction in Somerset and offered £1200 to sell it early so I could go up at the weekend and collect it. They declined stating "it's worth far more than that so we will let the auction run."

I found another one on a one day auction which had less miles, was 18 months newer, had a better history with it and won it for just under £1100 which I was very happy with. The other car sold for £910 which to be honest was closer to the value of the car they were selling on Ebay.

You do get a lot of chancers selling but you get a lot of greedy people out there too.

Trouble is you can buy brand new bikes in parts from the factory that makes the named ones for less than you want for a second hand bike.
 
Andy808 said:
Trouble is you can buy brand new bikes in parts from the factory that makes the named ones for less than you want for a second hand bike.
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If all you want is a cheep 'n cheerful bike then you might as well go to Halfords and get one of their own brand jobbie's... Folk, though, want a 'name' to come with it...

When I sold a Porsche branded bike... One prospective buyer tried telling me it was nothing special "same bits as any other bike"... But, as I pointed out, it has the ALL important badge and documentation/provenance to back it up...
 
I sell plenty through Gumtree, just have to ignore the idiots. Sold my Fender Strat this week for £275 having listed it at £295. First email offered me £50, to which I politely declined, second chap bought it. I only ever list with my email contact, so no biggie to ignore the wasters.
 
sev112 said:
Sounds interesting - do you have a link ?
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Really not into push bikes myself mate but several of the guys at work are and a few of them have been having stuff delivered to work and the quality of it is superb. I used to work with carbon fibre a lot and the layup on them is as good as you'll see.
All the stuff they have bought has been made to order and not off the shelf rubbish you would expect.
I'll get a website off one of them tomorrow and let you have it.
 
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