ebay rant

[shewy]

I've been selling a few bits and bobs recently and there seems to be a lot of winning bidders not paying me, it's becoming a lot more frequent. I'm think eBay need to strike them off if they don't pay and don't respond to messages.

 

[merv79]

Fortunately I haven't had this issue to date!

Have you updated your selling preferences/Buyer Requirements so users with poor ratings and previous issues with non payment etc cannot bid on your items?

 

[guest100718]

Not usually a problem but ebay are not that bothered. Everything is in the buyers favour.

 

[duncan mackie]

I've been selling a few bits and bobs recently and there seems to be a lot of winning bidders not paying me, it's becoming a lot more frequent. I'm think eBay need to strike them off if they don't pay and don't respond to messages.

So what is eBay response?

 

[shewy]

They have opened a case, but they really don't favour the seller.
People in question have 100% records, I'd understand if it was a mistake but to not answer email really gets my goat

 

[Odvan]

For the sake of quick sales, I list as Buy it Nows with a little extra on top of what I want, ensuring that the 'make offer' option is on. And if ya set that to auto-decline under a certain amount you'll come close to getting what you want.

 

[guest100718]

For the sake of quick sales, I list as Buy it Nows with a little extra on top of what I want, ensuring that the 'make offer' option is on. And if ya set that to auto-decline under a certain amount you'll come close to getting what you want.

BINBO is the way to go

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

I've been selling a few bits and bobs recently and there seems to be a lot of winning bidders not paying me, it's becoming a lot more frequent. I'm think eBay need to strike them off if they don't pay and don't respond to messages.

Just had the very same thing, sold a hybrid & the chap hasn't paid and hasn't responded to messages, I will leave negative feedback and re-list, its all you can do.

 

[guest100718]

Just had the very same thing, sold a hybrid & the chap hasn't paid and hasn't responded to messages, I will leave negative feedback and re-list, its all you can do.

thats the thing, you cant anymore/

 

[pbrown7582]

It's all in buyer favour not only ebay paypal too HiD just had to refund on an item returned damaged 106 days after sale but paypal sided with the buyer!

 

[hamshanker]

Seem to be hearing more n more problems regarding ebay of late......

I sold a driver cpl months ago and its first thing ive sold on ebay since they and paypal seperated...club sold and was waiting for money to go in paypal account and 5 days later buyer asked if item had been sent,i told them was waiting for payment from them to which they said had been paid for straight away..

When i looked into it it had been paid but paypal was holding it as 'pending payment' which basically they hold your money till buyer receives item...sooo i sent the item out and 4 weeks later still no money so rang paypal and they told me there had been a problem with my details so money had gone back into buyers account grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...so they sent an email to ask them to make payment again but luckily i had buyers details and managed to sort it out between us without any problems so now wont sell on ebay again sold cpl items since on Gumtree...

 

[alexbrownmp]

I've had no issues so far but I'm a very irregular user.

I did just sell a Titleist 915 D3 driver recently and started at 99p, got lots of requests for a buy it now price and I said if I can clear £200 after fees I'll be happy, no-one took me up on it and the bidding shot past £200 with 3 hrs to go, chap paid in 30 minutes as most of my transaction have done.