ebay advice...

[pwd95]

Someone has done a 'buy it now' on my daughters car but I have not had the immediate PayPal deposit or any messages regarding arrangements.
How do I cancel the sale? Can I just hit re-list?
All seems a bit odd to me as they are from the other side of the country & have not enquired or viewed.

[P Nuts]

how long ago did the sale end? id give the benfit of the dubt, but based on the brief details it does sound weird, what car is it? they may have someone collecting on their behalf, do they have feedback?

[firemanSimon]

If i were you wait till tomorrow and re-list if no payment or contact has been made. then re-list and report

[pwd95]

Over 3 hours now. They have over 100 good feedbacks, only 1 negative.
It's a Clio @ £3.2k.

[andy-xr]

I'd give them a day or two personally - you can send an invoice/money request or even just a message asking when they'd like to arrange a time to collect it and a phone number

3 hours tbh, way too soon - they're probably down the pub or working, £3200 isnt something you're going to Paypal

[pwd95]

What I don't understand is why they didn't do the PayPal deposit when they did the 'Buy it now'.

[V8RX7]

Many ask for a PPal deposit - it's rarely given.

Plus it's worthless as PPal will refund it if the buyer says the car wasn't as described etc

[pwd95]

Hmmm, perhaps I'll waiti till morning. Not the way I would do things at all.

[TRB]

You can't get negative feedback as a buyer.

The more you use ebay, the more idiots you will come across.

[pwd95]

TRB said:

The more you use ebay, the more idiots you will come across.

your not wrong there, had one last week.

[pwd95]

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

[carreauchompeur]

pwd95 said:

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

Aaargh. Relist, file non-paying bidder malarkey...

[Polariz]

pwd95 said:

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

Sigh. Can you report them somehow?

[thewharftrader]

Yes, file Non-Paying Bidder against them once alloted time elapsed. That is the only way to 'report' them. It is is pretty ineffective though.

If they ask to mutually cancel the transaction, don't do it. Let the NPB take its course and then get your FVF back that way.

The reason not to mutually cancel the traction is to protect your feedback. If you agree to mutually cancel the transaction, the buyer can still leave you negative feedback writing whatever the hell they like and you have no way of getting eBay to remove it (except for defamation and even then they just remove the comment and leave the negative and rating blemish).

If you go through the NPB process, and they leave negative feedback, you can contact eBay and they will remove it straight away once looking into it. Also, it helps to keep correspondence through eBay's message system so eBay customer services can see the person is asking for a discount immediately after the sale has finished.

[firemanSimon]

pwd95 said:

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

ebay has gone to the dogs. i feel for you fella.

[CraigyMc]

firemanSimon said:

pwd95 said:

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

ebay has gone to the dogs. i feel for you fella.

It always was full of muppets.

[dooosuk]

pwd95 said:

What I don't understand is why they didn't do the PayPal deposit when they did the 'Buy it now'.

Because they may have bid on their phone and will do the PayPal bit later when they get home from the computer...that's what I do sometimes.

[g3org3y]

pwd95 said:

I knew it... a message asking for 'several hundred' pounds off....

What was the justification? (apart from being a bell).