Grr... bloody eBay buyers.

[gazchap]

Bit of a rant, but it's definitely a 0/10 jobbie as I'm not *quite* angry enough to fly into a sweary rage yet.

The other day I put my MR2 turbo up for sale on eBay.

On the 4th of August, a day or so after I listed it, someone pointed out to me that it was actually accident damaged in the past (before I bought it) and had a dodgy speedo too - all repaired before I bought it, but I updated the listing accordingly and even included a link to the topic on IMOC-UK so that bidders could read the info from the horse's mouth and make their own mind up.

On the 6th of August, the eventual winner of the auction put his first bid in. A bit of a bidding war ensued but he ended up as the highest bidder. I e-mailed him my address and suggested I pick him up from the train station when he comes to pick it up.

Then suddenly I get a message from him accusing me of being dishonest, that a friend of his knows the car from before I bought it, that it's a Cat C and that I should have mentioned that in the listing, and that I've wasted his time, and that I'd have been ripping him off for nearly £3K if he'd come and bought it.

It's not Cat C - I did a HPI check before I bought it, there's nothing mentioned on the V5C.

Bloody hate having my integrity questioned.

I fking hate selling on eBay.

[retrorider]

I had a chancer ring me up about a car i was selling and told me it was cat listed and i should edit my listing accordingly.The car was all clear with certificate.Go figure...

[lordlee]

On the flip side I sold my Mercedes within six hours for a whisker under the asking price and to a very nice chap. I'll admit I did have a fair few messages from people I describe as the 'illiterati' asking 'best price' 'will you take a third off the price' etc. Overall though ebay has its good and bad points

[rallycross]

Looks like a nice car for not much £££

eBay idiots Is sadly part of dealing with the public just relist it and say why, try and get some photos or details of what the damage was from the previous previous owner so you can show what was repaired.

I'd be interested at £2k delivered to London if that's of any interest for a quick sale?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Couldn't you have had the same problem whichever advertising medium you used?

(substitute bid for offer)

[Ozzie Osmond]

The world is full of clowns and a lot of them seem to bid for cars on ebay.

[GarryA]

I had an asian kid from Birmingham click buy it now only 10 minutes of it being listed.

He turned up at my house with a car full of mates, like they do....





































Paid cash for the car and was very happy with it.

[Mr2Mike]

The fool should have snapped your arm off, that's a very good price for a Rev 5 if it's been nicely repaired. Didn't realise they could be had that cheap.

[gazchap]

lordlee said:

On the flip side I sold my Mercedes within six hours for a whisker under the asking price and to a very nice chap. I'll admit I did have a fair few messages from people I describe as the 'illiterati' asking 'best price' 'will you take a third off the price' etc. Overall though ebay has its good and bad points

I've had none of that with any of the three cars that I've been selling over the last couple of days, every message I've had has been pretty good.

The MX-5 I sold last night went to a very pleasant chap, and I'm hoping the E38 I'm selling will go without any hassle as well.

Even with the MR2 the vast majority of messages have been good, I've only had one "What's your buy it now price?" message and he ended up bidding for it but not winning.