e-bay idiots...

I would say , it’s yours for £70 ,if things are tight ,(tis the season of good will)..and if the person is a conman,(can I say that) con person ,you will get your comeuppance,....

Yep had an item up Auction for £3.99 bloke offered £3 then £3.49
said i'd let it run didn't sell
So put up again this week got £11+postage

anyone who says "crimbo" when trying to broker a deal, should be dropped from a great height. Or in this case **** off would seem rather more appropriate

It sounds like the person hasn't much money and frankly the thing is finding its natural value in the current market.

If it's really worth 95, someone will pay that.....

I purchased a Adidas ali top in the summer, the seller took ages to send so I had to open a case.
After 4 weeks the item arrived, the seller then wanted me to leave feedback the second I had the item
So the case was closed.
The item had arrived whilst I was at work so there was no way I was closing the case until I had seen the item.
Any way this idiot then got very demanding as pay pal had frozen the money which he blamed on me.
He was sending me message after mesage demanding sudden action.
Just replied I was going to use the same laid back way of doing business that he used.

daft ****.

Maybe to resell again. May I ask what it is? I'm looking for a gift in that price range but undecided about the item yet?

ive got some slightly worn insoles mens size 9 you can have for £95 impossible!!

The worst experience by a long way was the very first thing I sold!

It was a DeWalt 24 volt drill with three batteries...

Seriously heavy and I had it as "collection only....

Buyer asks if I will post it and says he will send £10.00 in the post!

That never happened and then he asked how much delivery would be, with a certain carrier who base their business on e-bay!

Just have to mention here (to add to the issue) that for some reason that I can't recall, he stated that he was a "Special Constable!

I gave him the price, which was £13.50 and he accepted, so had it delivered by said company (packing was horendous because of the weight)
and then the trouble began!

The carrier had tried to deliver twice and he didn't respond!

Their depot was only three miles away, so he could have collected it, and they wanted to ask if I should have it returned to me.

Messaged him, and he promised to tell them where to leave it.

Three months later I was being asked for feedback (of which I never heard of before) and I replied that I never received the promised delivery costs.

The b@st@rd responded that "the batteries didn't hold charge, no replies to his texts, not as described"!

So, after three months, this "special constable", from who I never heard, puts the boot in!!!

MT had a similar problem a while back - bought some of me fav aftershave that guy must hav nicked off a duty free shelf to sell it for price he did - wasnt an auction just a straight sale wiv an estimated del date - bought item and paid for it and when item hadnt arrived 3 days after advised i raised a case only for the loon to come on and give me pelters - item arrived 2 days later

Ok...here is the most ridiculous buying experience...

I'm usually very careful to check reviews of a seller, but this time I didn't!

I bought a PS4 controller for my grandson, from a company with a UK address.

Later I discovered that the supplier was in Indonesia but, even more weirdly, the seller was in Australia, and the reviews were damning
with people saying they never received them and/or they were counterfeit!"

Sent an e-mail, not expecting a reply, but just a few days later it arrived!

That wasn't the end of it, but a few days later another one arrived!!!

That has to be the daftest thing that ever happened on e-bay!

send them another email

about 5 years ago i listed a 1960-70s fruit machine /one armed bandit ,it weighed about 50 kilos so i stated collection only ,anyway after several bids it sold for a decent price ,on looking at the buyers address he lives in germany ,i emails him to say how is he going to collect ? can you send it says he ,well no it weighs a ton and would be a b,stard to pack says i ,okay can you put it in a wooden bag and i will drive over and collect it one day says he .....anyway he paid and to this day i have never heard fook all from him ...........and i am still looking for a fooking wooden bag !

sounds like someone just wanted to win a bidding war rather than the actual item foyles, that happens on ebay a lot.

He might still want it. Might be worth giving him a nudge.

The ones that drive me mental, are those that message "do you still have the *****" to which I reply "yes" and hear nothing further!

Lady F V

how are you gonna survive next year when everything you buy on card online will need authenticating with code sent to ya mobile?

didnt you see you have poor signal/coverage?

Hell's bells Delta....I hadn't heard of that!

Just had a quick look at the proposals, and I see it doesn't kick in till September and there may be ways to opt out by
"white listing" a trusted seller, so will have to wait till the banks agree on details.

Dec 17, 2018 -- 8:52AM, Crisp77 wrote:

He might still want it. Might be worth giving him a nudge.

That is totally deserving of a !

i would give him a nudge ........wont do a lot of good though as i sold it  again last year at a car boot

good one crisp ....with the money i got i hit 3 bars ! the bloke must be a bit of a lemon tbh.

must admit i hit the jackpot there !

Seems quite a few funny people on e-bay.

Crisp77    17 Dec 18 08:52 
He might still want it. Might be worth giving him a nudge.

...or a bell

If you want a set price for something say so, NO OFFERS, otherwise i think its a good bid.

Re the original post - the customers response seems to me to be a perfectly courteous and reasonable one. He made an offer that you declined. The fact you reduced your asking price to nearer his offer is neither here nor there.  His offer was presumably either what he could afford or what he was prepared to pay at that time. Am I missing something?

I have a stock of items which I have been selling since May.  Buyers can either pay full price (£27) or make an offer (I generally accept around £23.50/ £24).  Postage is free.  I have a habit of looking up my buyers' house prices and it's always those living in expensive properties (£700k plus) who try to haggle.  I agreed on £24 on the weekend for one sale.  Turned out she was a professor at UCL living in a £1.8m flat in the heart of London.

Why would lady accept the first offer? everyone must go in lower than what they would actually pay?

Callisto - Doesn't seem like it in this case does it.  By selling with open to offers, you are showing that you do not expect to get the asking price. Buyers know this and make offers accordingly. As this guy demonstrates, some offers are their best and final offer.

The rich ones have tended to be the most bargain conscious, and most likely to "cheat" on the underground too eg about 3 decades ago a survey found that those from Richmond were the most crafty fare-dodgers on the London Tube.

I buy quite a bit of stuff from E-bay and Amazon and most of the time have been extremely happy, but do try to stay away from those despatched from Hong Kong or China as items advertised were not always what they seemed eg boiled egg slicer, egg rings, vegetable chopper/slicer/dicer - the materials used were inferior quality and products not durable.

yes I see it clearly varies depending on the person.

I always makr the first offer lower than what I will pay thinking thatr seller is bound to counter.

impossible theres another days wear and tear on the insoles so ill drop to £75 now.

Callisto - It certainly does!!!   Your tactic is fine when it works, but remember loads of items on Ebay are listed at very inflated buy it now prices, with the best offer process used just to test the market as to what the item might make.  This testing process is often used with items that have a low start but a reserve price. Many of these items are not for sale but are just testing the market.   Don't get me wrong, I love Ebay and have been buying and selling happily for over 16 years, but it can be a minefield for the uninitiated.

'Callisto', prezzie ain't for me. Also, I've several pairs of new shoes from Clarkes just last month.

Another Ebay trick - look out for misspellings.

Impossible - just think for the same money, you could probably have bought proper Clark's shoes

I'm one of those mugs who pays the inflated "buy it now" price -- though I do not buy much from ebay and it is mainly cheap stuff, less than £100. I kind of know it's a rip off but for the sort of sums I am paying, life is too short to spend hours watching the bidding or haggling to save a tenner. Maybe that's why I am still poor

I had one scam on ebay that lasted for a month, some fella was selling 20 "PICTURES" of his wife for £20 which were send
to your email. there was no copyright and he made no indication that you were not able to sel them on.
I paid the £20 then popped them back up for sale at £5 I sold loads on the first night, anyway he started to kick off which I was expecting
but I just said that no copyright was implicated nor any request not to be sold on.
Ended up selling over 400 sets of his pics but as people realised there was a bg pervy market on ebay more people got involved
selling adult sets so ebay put an end to it.

Yes Blackbarn, you are missing something....
Firstly I did not invite offers....
Secondly what kind of lunatic makes an offer and then says he can't afford it?

I put my dogging equipment up on ebay. I haven't had any bids but I've got plenty of people watching.... (courtesy of bigmo's joke thread)

I got chatting to a bloke selling anything on ebay,anyway to cut a long story short
i asked if he had any naked photo's of his wife when he said no i said "well would you like to buy some".

LFV - Nothing in Ebay rules to prevent buyers making offers, even if not invited by the "best offer" process. In fact, you indicated you were happy to accept best offers by making a counter offer to his offer.

You say "what kind of lunatic makes an offer and then says he can't afford it?".   His offer was £85, which presumably he could afford at the time, you countered with £90 which he refused. 

Am I still missing something?

Any of those pics left, castilo?

callisto*

MY DAUGHTER SELLS ALOT ON E BAY SHE PUT A WARDROBE UP FOR SALE SHE PUT A DESCRIPTION AND SEVERAL PHOTOS OF THE WARDROBE .THE BUYER ASKED IF IT COULD BE PICKED UP FROM HER HOUSE WHICH SHE AGREED TO.THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR AND TWO ASIAN LADS WERE STOOD THERE .THEY SAID THEY HAD COME TO COLLECT THE WARDROBE SHE SAID ILL GO AND GET IT FROM UPSTAIRS.THEY SAID DID SHE NEED ANY HELP SHE SAID NO .MY DAUGHTER COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING IT WAS A CINDY CHILDRENS TOY WARDROBE .THEY HAD A BIG VAN OUTSIDE TO COLLECT IT.THEY LAUGHED AND SAID THEIR GRANDAD HAD ORDERED IT AFTER LOOKING THROUGH LOADS OF ADVERTS FOR A WARDROBE

MY DAUGHTER SELLS ALOT ON E BAY SHE PUT A WARDROBE UP FOR SALE SHE PUT A DESCRIPTION AND SEVERAL PHOTOS OF THE WARDROBE .THE BUYER ASKED IF IT COULD BE PICKED UP FROM HER HOUSE WHICH SHE AGREED TO.THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR AND TWO ASIAN LADS WERE STOOD THERE .THEY SAID THEY HAD COME TO COLLECT THE WARDROBE SHE SAID ILL GO AND GET IT FROM UPSTAIRS.THEY SAID DID SHE NEED ANY HELP SHE SAID NO .MY DAUGHTER COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING IT WAS A CINDY CHILDRENS TOY WARDROBE .THEY HAD A BIG VAN OUTSIDE TO COLLECT IT.THEY LAUGHED AND SAID THEIR GRANDAD HAD ORDERED IT AFTER LOOKING THROUGH LOADS OF ADVERTS FOR A WARDROBE

with all due respect, what kind of saddo buys pictures on the internet of other people's wives?

Yes Blackbarn you are!

You think he could afford £85.00 now, but can't afford another £5.00 till his next pay day!

Or am I missing something?

Yep, some folks are not a flush as you or I, and a fiver can easily make a difference.  I stand by my post.

By the way, you sure you did not inadvertently list this as "offers accepted".  He does not seem the kind of guy who would use the term "counter offer" which is the Ebay auto response term to what was going on if you had.    Actually don't bother to reply, I've given my comments which you asked for in your op.  Merry Christmas

around 400 pervy ebayers scanny.