eBay is going to the dogs !

[bluebear]

eBay used to be a great place to sell. But now i'm finished with it. I was selling my wife's car and 2 days before the auction ends, eBay in there wisdom upheld a canceled bid. The reason ? buyer entered the wrong amount ! but only released 3 days after they bid. So i'm meant to believe they entered the amount and got it wrong (been a ebay buyer and seller for 5 years cant see how they made this mistake) and took 3 days to realize it. fk OFF a clear case of buyers remorse if ever i saw one. eBAY need to sort this sort of behavior out. YOU BID YOU BUY ! Its not hard. and if you cant do it properly you dont deserve to let loose on a computer. We have all made drunk eBay purchase, but unlike some i honor them.

[surveyor]

Silly high bid then....

Personally I am happy to accept a canceled bid. Better this then a non completing bidder...

[Fletch79]

going?? ... Gone!

Sold a set of tyres 2 years ago, guy emailed me and offered me half, i said no full price or nothing.

He bought and as soon as they arrived they raised a complaint and tried to get half his money back. Luckily i was smart enough to offer all his money, and postage and return postage so paypal found in my favour. However i reckon if i hadn't offered all the money and some they wouldn't have found in my favour

[Twincharged]

bluebear said:

YOU BID YOU BUY ! Its not hard.

An auction bid is not a legally binding offer until the end of the auction.

[swamp]

eBay is a mixed bag. I just 'sold' an expensive pushchair on eBay at the weekend. Lady buyer with zero feedback has made no payment and no contact. Here we go again...!

OTOH I just sold a load of ski gear without any problems.

[Mr Gear]

surveyor said:

Silly high bid then....

Personally I am happy to accept a canceled bid. Better this then a non completing bidder...

^This. Someone accidentally bid £200 on some cardboard boxes I was selling. They meant £20.... They asked me to retract their bid on the last day of the auction. Fair enough, but it almost certainly put off other bidders when they saw the boxes sitting at £200 all week.

[MX7]

Ask for a free 3 day extention of the auction.

[surveyor]

I though that Ebay Motors and Property auctions were non-binding in any case?

[Steffan]

surveyor said:

I though that Ebay Motors and Property auctions were non-binding in any case?

They are.

Since most vehicles are sold as seen the buyer has two choices. He can turn up and offer less because the car was not properly decsribed.

Or the buyer can simply repudiate the contract.

Property auctions are similar. The buyer has received no legal advice and can repudiate the contract.

Ebay know this they will back the buyers in these cases.

[falkster]

It's been going down for a long time. I still use it to get a bargain or two but am prepared to take twice as long to find (and get) what I want. If its not people listing without a reserve then the item 'becomes faulty' after you've paid because they don't want to take such a low figure or it's people bidding things up for themselves or,the best one, people bidding on your items (especially cars) then deciding its 'not as described' because I said it had a few stone chips rather than specifying the exact amount - it was actually a super mint car!!!

[Steffan]

falkster said:

It's been going down for a long time. I still use it to get a bargain or two but am prepared to take twice as long to find (and get) what I want. If its not people listing without a reserve then the item 'becomes faulty' after you've paid because they don't want to take such a low figure or it's people bidding things up for themselves or,the best one, people bidding on your items (especially cars) then deciding its 'not as described' because I said it had a few stone chips rather than specifying the exact amount - it was actually a super mint car!!!

Exactly.

The scam merchants have figured out the way to milk Ebay and it is not as it was.

In still prefer Ebay to any other sale site but classified seems to me to be the best with cars.

[stemll]

surveyor said:

I though that Ebay Motors and Property auctions were non-binding in any case?

Motors Classified aren't binding, others are (although it's probably the easiest item in the world to claim wasn't as described. I never buy or sell anything of value on there myself. Recently sold a broken Nikon lens and the buyer claimed it was scratched (which it wasn't, it was just the autofocus gearing was dead). I offered a full refund after he'd returned it, two days later he left positive feedback and never heard from him again. As mentioned by Fleth79, I suspect he was just after getting it cheaper than he bid.