Ebay question...

[wiicrackpot]

Happy Birthday for tomorrow Andy.

Have a beer on us

Thanks mate, having a 'Whisky In a Jar' moment though. Sob...sob.

[goraman]

Andy, you have the right to open a complaint with the seller through ebay.
If you would have paid with pay pal it would give you even more leverage and paypal can put a hold on his bank account. Till the dispute is solved.

[Martinh]

Andy, you have the right to open a complaint with the seller through ebay.
If you would have paid with pay pal it would give you even more leverage and paypal can put a hold on his bank account. Till the dispute is solved.

Yes, that's true but he only has to say that the product is no longer available for sale and refund any money paid. Thats why I asked Andy If he'd paid for the item. Any complaint to eBay probably won't result in the product being sold to Andy.

[Martinh]

You can request the contact details for the seller here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/ebayadvsea...search&_ipg=50

And call them directly to see whats going on.

I think I'd give it a go to see what they say.

[wiicrackpot]

Jeff ~ I am just glad i didn't pay for it, think i'll move on, it's only kit at the end of the day.

Martin ~ Didn't know there was such a feature, will go and find his details and see what he's playing at.

Update:

Just got the details from Martin's link, the address is not complete and guess what ( no house number and street, just said Bathgate in the required sections)?,
the phone line has been terminated, dead tone.

[The Black Adder]

Bad luck matey... I once bought a cd player from a guy on ebay who I think still sells on there. I asked if he would accept a lower price to which he asked me to call him. I called him and he agreed to the deal but he asked me to put it through as a gift on Paypal.

Anyway, a few days later the cdp arrived, the packaging was done by a 3 year old and the thing (not surprisingly) didn't work.

I called him and he told me to f*uck off and that I can't do anything about it because it was done via a gift.

I have the sellers ebay name if anyone is interested... let me know.

But on my part it was a lesson learnt.

[wiicrackpot]

Thanks for that Joe, know not to buy on the Bay with *gift* payments, much appreciate it.

[Spur07]

I now this thread is a little old now, but if you won the auction and the seller refuses to complete the transaction you can open a dispute with ebay - he'll wind up with a warning and a black mark against his name and if he continues to screw other customers ebay will eventually trash his account. At least let ebay what's happened.

Good luck.

P

[wiicrackpot]

Paul,

I've not lost anything over this trans so will let it lie.

Ebay sucks when it comes to weeding out scammers, when i first registered, i bought a couple of C.D's and thought it great, on the 3rd buying spree, i bought a wee Silk Transformers 'Minuet' amp on a £200.00 + £7.00 PP 'buy it now' just to try a valve amp, turned he was a scumbag and never sent it, i didn't know the ways of ebay at the time,little while later i told a friend about it who looked into his ebay history, it turned he had used 5 different user names, seems everytime he scammed somebody, he'd terminate his account and registered using a different name and trade on, surely ebay must know what he's upto and did nothing.

[Tim]

Perhaps to bring some balance to another eBay slagging session, might I proffer this;

I have been a member since March 2004 and have successfully completed over 700 transactions as both a buyer and seller and only once had a problem, when a seller sent me a CD that was not as advertised and then called me a liar. eBay were extremely helpful (and prompt) at resolving the issue to my satisfaction. On an average day eBay handle 5 million transactions and without doubt a percentage of these are going to be deliberate misrepresentations, thefts, frauds or dubious in nature. There are IMO a multitude of ways to suss out a 'wrong un' before hand and if you don't do this, then is it really eBay's fault? They cannot keep track of all the scammers due to the open nature of how eBay functions. eBay fraudsters take advantage of peoples greed and lackadaisical manner and will continue to do so no matter what eBay does to try and stop them - think about it, 5 million transactions a day?

Do your homework first, check their history thoroughly, see what they buy and sell, read the listing carefully and avoid sales with crap pictures, stock pictures, NO PICTURES, poor descriptions, spelling mistakes or poor grammar and always strike up a relationship before purchase by questioning and if anything and I mean anything makes you hesitant, then walk away. High value items should IMO always be a face to face sale if at all possible and sending thousands of pounds to anyone operating privately via the internet, is just asking for trouble and utterly reckless.

I think you should chalk this one up as a near miss Andy and like Joe, a lesson learned. Think of it positively, you will now approach eBay more cautiously without actually suffering any real loss this time - I call that a result