some ebay sellers

[steve singh]

Axionknight said:

It's the wker buyers who bid, win and then message you saying they can't pay - happened TWICE to me when trying to sell a Volvo 850 T5-R..... "SORRY I WON BUT I CANT AFFORD TILL PAY DAY IN 3 WEEKS LOL OK?".

Die.

[groomi]

martinnitram said:

Its not that, the part hadn't been paid for so the guy hadn't despatched it, he offers a refund on returns anyway, so in my wisdom thought i would save him the trouble of packing and sending it, only for me to return it wasting my time.
Seemed sensible to me.

More sensible would have been to message him as soon as you knew you didn't need the part. Then he could simply have not accepted your offer and kept the llisting going.

[Mercury00]

Drek said:

TRB said:

So you bought something from ebay, didn't pay, then moan when you get a strike for not paying?

Only that wasn't what he did, was it? Did you actually read what he wrote?

He shouldn't make offers on items that he isn't sure he wants then. Simple as that.

[C0nr0d]

Mercury00 said:

He shouldn't make offers on items that he isn't sure he wants then. Simple as that.

But he was sure he wanted it and then someone he knew said they had one he could have after he'd already made the offer

[Drek]

Mercury00 said:

Drek said:

TRB said:

So you bought something from ebay, didn't pay, then moan when you get a strike for not paying?

Only that wasn't what he did, was it? Did you actually read what he wrote?

He shouldn't make offers on items that he isn't sure he wants then. Simple as that.

Only he did exactly that, didn't he? He wanted the part, he needed the part and won a best offer bid. AFTER he put in his best offer, his mate surfaced with exact same part and blah blah blah. Is that too difficult or do you live your life in such a linear fashion that no matter what happens and also in part due to your excellent unworldly ability to predict the future, you believe this to be the only course of action?

It's not really 'simple as that' is it?

[martinnitram]

groomi said:

martinnitram said:

Its not that, the part hadn't been paid for so the guy hadn't despatched it, he offers a refund on returns anyway, so in my wisdom thought i would save him the trouble of packing and sending it, only for me to return it wasting my time.
Seemed sensible to me.

More sensible would have been to message him as soon as you knew you didn't need the part. Then he could simply have not accepted your offer and kept the llisting going.

That's exactly what i did.
I went out of my way to save the seller the trouble.

Here's how it happened,
Put in offer for item
Mate found one, gave it me for free
Few days later offer gets accepted, oh bugger,
Immediately messaged seller, explaining what has happened, and as he offers a refund on item anyway it will save him the bother of posting it, and me the bother of returning it.
Left it at that, few weeks later no further communication from seller, assumed all ok, non payment rap appears.
Sneaky wker.

Edited by martinnitram on Sunday 19th January 23:33

[groomi]

Crucial difference to what I said. You did nothing between your mate giving you the part and the offer being accepted. That was your opportunity to tell the seller you didn't need it anymore and avoid all this hassle.

Chalk it up to experience and communicate better next time.

[steve singh]

martinnitram said:

groomi said:

martinnitram said:

Its not that, the part hadn't been paid for so the guy hadn't despatched it, he offers a refund on returns anyway, so in my wisdom thought i would save him the trouble of packing and sending it, only for me to return it wasting my time.
Seemed sensible to me.

More sensible would have been to message him as soon as you knew you didn't need the part. Then he could simply have not accepted your offer and kept the llisting going.

That's exactly what i did.
I went out of my way to save the seller the trouble.

Here's how it happened,
Put in offer for item
Mate found one, gave it me for free
Few days later offer gets accepted, oh bugger,
Immediately messaged seller, explaining what has happened, and as he offers a refund on item anyway it will save him the bother of posting it, and me the bother of returning it.
Left it at that, few weeks later no further communication from seller, assumed all ok, non payment rap appears.
Sneaky wker.

Edited by martinnitram on Sunday 19th January 23:33

What was the sellers refund policy? Would you have to pay for postage? Was it if the item wasn't as described?

Personally I have you at fault here.

[Sump]

Buyers fault.

Seller just made a case to cancel the transaction and get his fees back.

[Chainguy]

Ebay provide a rather large screen prompt telling you before you hit 'send' your offer is binding if accepted. It's that simple.

You offered. He accepted. Now your calling him out on simply trying to get his fees back?

Poor show by you.

[Tanguero]

C0nr0d said:

I bought an irmscher gearknob from a guy on Ebay a while back. Gearknob itself is threaded and comes with an adapter you put on the shaft with some grub screws, then gearknob on top. Anyway seller lists it mint condition etc etc all looked good. Buy it and there's no adapter. Asked him where's the adapter and he told me it ex display model, doesn't come with one. Some people disagree but I feel if it doesn't come with the necessary part to fit it you should mention it in the advert. Ended up with a big dispute of him telling me to buy another gearknob and make an adapter out of that and then told me he'll give me a 20% refund to cover the cost. I asked for the full refund he told me all modification parts to a car need some work to fit them and it didn't state it came with the adapter so it's my own fault. I've done plenty of mods before and said all parts adverts state if they need other parts or work to fit them and Irmscher doesn't say "comes with adapter" on their own advert on their website because obviously should come with it. Carried on refusing. Soon as I filed a purchase complaint thing through Ebay he was alerted of it and told me he'd give me a full refund and there's no need to file a complaint. Already been done and had given them my reasoning and they closed it with the Seller needing to give me a full refund.

I don't know why they even try it

So the seller didn't send you something that he hadn't advertised and you hadn't paid for and you complained and opened a dispute? Dear God...!

[northwest monkey]

ch427 said:

If the transaction has gone through just leave some negative feedback, word it carefully so it does not get removed.

Did you not bother to read the post?

The transaction hadn't gone through - hence the strike for non-payment.

Any feedback left by a non-paying bidder (such as the OP) will be removed automatically or by a quick call to Ebay.

As for the OP - I wouldn't worry too much as long as it's your first one.

[mattdaniels]

martinnitram said:

Mate found one, gave it me for free
Few days later offer gets accepted, oh bugger,

So your issue was not withdrawing your offer once you no longer needed the item from eBay.
TBH I don't see the seller has done anything wrong here, and is trying to recover his fees.
Have you picked up the phone / messaged him directly to discuss?