some ebay sellers

[martinnitram]

I put a best offer in for a car part on ebay a few weeks back, only a small part for about £15, anyway, during the time it took for the seller (business seller)to accept this offer a friend of a friend had one spare, for free.

Of course the ebay seller then came back and accepted my offer and sent an invoice, i was going to buy the part and keep as a spare for an easy life, but noticed the seller accepted returns, so i sent a message explaining what had happened and that i no longer wanted the item, never heard anything back.
Until the other day, i noticed he had put an unpaid item case on my ebay account.

Now i know in the scheme of things, its not going to ruin my life, but what a sneaky, spiteful little wker.

[martinnitram]

TRB said:

martinnitram said:

stuff

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

It might be a tad harsh, but there is pretty much zero protection for sellers on ebay and an unlimited supply of time wasters and chancers.

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.

[martinnitram]

C0nr0d said:

I don't know why they even try it

Because they don't have to face the customer, if it was a shop and you went back it would be a different attitude completely.

[martinnitram]

PurpleMoonlight said:

martinnitram said:

I put a best offer in for a car part on ebay a few weeks back, only a small part for about £15, anyway, during the time it took for the seller (business seller)to accept this offer a friend of a friend had one spare, for free.

Of course the ebay seller then came back and accepted my offer and sent an invoice, i was going to buy the part and keep as a spare for an easy life, but noticed the seller accepted returns, so i sent a message explaining what had happened and that i no longer wanted the item, never heard anything back.
Until the other day, i noticed he had put an unpaid item case on my ebay account.

Now i know in the scheme of things, its not going to ruin my life, but what a sneaky, spiteful little wker.

This does not make sense.

For some considerable time now ebay has operated a 'offer, accept, confirm' process. So you would have had to confirm you still wanted to buy the item after the seller accepted your offer.

Why would you do that if you already had a free item from a friend?

No, i made a "or best offer" offer, which the seller accepted, and i was then prompted to pay for the item.

[martinnitram]

Riley Blue said:

You made an offer
Seller accepted offer and sends invoice
Friend finds part
You don't pay invoice but suggest a 'return'
Seller strikes up an 'unpaid'

Is that how it went?

Short, to the point, precise bullets of information.

I should have worded it like this to start with.

[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