Yet another reason I hate Ebay

[SPJ]

I just need to vent about a deal that is going south on Ebay.

Besides finding out the hard way when I first opened an account that you don't leave feedback first, that you as a seller get slammed when USPS takes longer to deliver at Christmas time than the normal 3-5 days or dent the corner of a box, and that paypal echecks can and will bounce on you, I just added another reason why I do not like dealing on that site.

I upgraded my printer recently and had the old inkjet photo printer just sitting around gathering dust so I figured I would list it for sale.

It sold for 99 cents. Shipping was another $9.99 on top of it for a grand total of $10.98 for a perfectly fine printer.

Anyways, It was sold on Oct 30th. I couldn't remember where the installation CD went. I had it when I listed it for sale but of course when it comes time to ship it out, I can't find it. I emailed the buyer and explained that I misplaced the CD and would give him a full refund since without the CD to install the software, the photo features won't work.

I then refunded his full payment.

I get an email from him today and he was very irate stating he doesn't want the refund so I can turn around and sell it later. I explained to him I did not want to ship it since it wouldn't work properly when it arrived. He in turn tells me I am a terrible Ebay seller. Why would you demand to have it shipped after you get the refund when the CD is not going to arrive with it?
I have decided to let him keep the refund and ship it out for free minus the CD and sent him a email stating that.

This is the final straw. No more Ebay. It's just not worth it.

[Laooda]

Woah, just let it go.... just remember, mean people suck! And they haft to KNOW that they are mean, so... therefore they know they SUCK! And that's a really horrible way to live IMO ! ***I'll take a cup of coffee, and I suck***

LOL!!!

[jessie_k_pythons]

When it comes to Ebay and selling things there dont list something for $.99 if it is worth more. I had the same problem a few years back. if your willing to sell it for that little then bump up the shipping to $45.00

Dont let theis ya hoos get to you. They just like to make a fuss. I sold a few lithographs from Disney on ebay in mint cond. the buyer inturn emailed me when he do the print saying there was a hairline scratch on the back of the print. he then contacted ebay stating I riped him off and I ended up having to give him his money back. $2,000.00 gone, and the guy got a perfect print for free.

It happens, and thus is life. we win we loose. you just have to be smarter than the a holes that are buying from you. I had to learn that the hard way.

[Laooda]

I sold a few lithographs from Disney on ebay in mint cond. the buyer inturn emailed me when he do the print saying there was a hairline scratch on the back of the print.

There used to be a store that sold orig. Disney sketches, cells, etc... in Houston, it was soooo neat! I haven't seen any in 15yrs???

[SPJ]

I didn't care how much it sold for. The 99 cents is fine. I listed it to get rid of it.


The thing that ticks me off is the attitude of this guy.

Maybe I should have shipped it without the CD and told him tough luck if he emailed me looking for it. That would be a bad Ebay seller. Not trying to be honest.

[TekWarren]

Why couldn't you just download the latest drivers and burn them to a cd??

[SPJ]

It's not just the drivers. The CD has the software to install the memory card manager, the photo center, and the photo editing software.

[joepythons]

I didn't care how much it sold for. The 99 cents is fine. I listed it to get rid of it.


The thing that ticks me off is the attitude of this guy.

Maybe I should have shipped it without the CD and told him tough luck if he emailed me looking for it. That would be a bad Ebay seller. Not trying to be honest.

Steve,just add this moron with rockboy and erase them from your memory.To much stress is not a good thing and freind you have had alot of unneeded stress lately .

[Vomitore]

I've only had 1 bad experience with E-bay. I bought what I though was a vintage Voltron 12 inch diecast figure. It was something I had when I was a child that I loved. Well I bought it for 100.00 and after shipping it was about 113.00 since it was heavy and I added insurance. Well 3 days later I get it. First mind you this is about a 5 pound diecast figure and some parts on it are plastic. Including its head. Well the guy wrapped it up in about 3 layers thick of what would be a paper bag from the grocery store. The head was cracked and I later found out after I inspected it that it was a copy. Even though the guy posted "Original Vintage Voltron." So after a few emails I asked for him to file a claim with USPS. Well he didnt add the insurance and told me to leave him alone. I filed a claim with Paypal and they didn't do a thing to help. They told me to talk to E-bay. But E-bay owns Paypal. And E-bay told me to talk to paypal. So now I have a 100.00 smashed Voltron copy. Thank god the guy gave me positive feedback before I got the toy. However, I never did get my money back.

[Entropy]

Jesse, hiking up the shipping is a shady practice and I know lots of people that refuse to deal with sellers who do such a thing, it's rediculous to do.
That said I am currently having an issue with ebay. I recently moved and somehow lost all of my sets of probes. I found some at a local shop here but I like to have extras and found a nice set on Ebay so I purchased them and paid waaay back the beginning of Oct.
It's now the second week of November and guess what? Still no probes. I opened a claim with ebay since the seller refused to respond to my emails and was then sent a 'tracking number' by the seller. He claims to have shipped them UPS ground on the 24th (I paid for USPS Priority). After I email him back and make a note on paypal I get an email from him saying he'll send out a 'replacement' set. He called today with the tracking number and claims they'll be here Tuesday.
We'll see.

And when did paypal start charging a fee to when you escelated something to a claim? Talk about a load of crap. I remember so much why I loathe it.