I hate having an auction and buyers win and dont pay. I always will give them a chance and ask if they plan on paying. So far in January alone ive had this happened 9 times. Each time the person was rude and told me they were bidding on the same item in someones elses auction and got it cheaper. Ugh. All were users under 50 feedback. I hate that ebay took away the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback!

Originally Posted by Kevbo887 I hate having an auction and buyers win and dont pay. I always will give them a chance and ask if they plan on paying. So far in January alone ive had this happened 9 times. Each time the person was rude and told me they were bidding on the same item in someones elses auction and got it cheaper. Ugh. All were users under 50 feedback. I hate that ebay took away the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback!

What was their reasoning for that?

Ebay should require 10% non refundable deposit that would be automatically withdrawn once you won an auction. But ebay is run by shitstains. They probably lose more money by allowing deadbeats stay than by just giving them the boot.

Originally Posted by Kevbo887 I hate having an auction and buyers win and dont pay. I always will give them a chance and ask if they plan on paying. So far in January alone ive had this happened 9 times. Each time the person was rude and told me they were bidding on the same item in someones elses auction and got it cheaper. Ugh. All were users under 50 feedback. I hate that ebay took away the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback!

I dont even get that much. They win the auction and then drop off the face of the earth. Don't respond to invoices, ignore messages, and opening a case does nothing until I close it. Had 2 auctions recently that were never paid, had cases closed and final value fees credited, and then relisted. Barely got half the amount next auctions.

Does eBay still give out non paying bidder strikes and eventually boot you if you get too many?

Originally Posted by spmahn Does eBay still give out non paying bidder strikes and eventually boot you if you get too many?

They do give out strikes if the non-payment case is closed, but those aren't publicly seen. And from a seller's perspective, you can only have the system exclude buyers who have two non-payments in the past month - so it does little to weed out the non-payers.

I don't know how many strikes over what period of time it takes for eBay to ban someone though.

I hate selling stuff for "Parts only" and "Needs Repair" I sell the item, mail it and about a week later get a request for a return. Saying the item doesn't work or work properly smh.

Or people who blindly bid without intention of paying. An about 2 weeks later respond with "I don't want it anymore" lord!!!!

I don't sell on eBay often. A buyer called me a "dickhead" and went off on me in eBay messages because I put Signature Confirmation on his $225 CD player, even though I put a bolded statement at the very top of the item description and included a sub-title saying that I would do so. But, he left me positive feedback in the end and he got a spot in my blocked buyers list.

Originally Posted by parKer I don't sell on eBay often. A buyer called me a "dickhead" and went off on me in eBay messages because I put Signature Confirmation on his $225 CD player, even though I put a bolded statement at the very top of the item description and included a sub-title saying that I would do so. But, he left me positive feedback in the end and he got a spot in my blocked buyers list.

I would have never done that, I would have thanked you!

Originally Posted by skiizim I would have never done that, I would have thanked you!

Aw.

I just apologized and kept quiet. He has an elderly mother who can't answer the door and he was pissed that he might miss the delivery. He ended up getting it at the PO. It was just upsetting how angry he got at me when I had "free Signature Confirmation" in 2 different places.


"Sorry, I do not ship outside of the USA."
eBay message: hi i am quite interesting at your CD player. How much for ship Latvia (Europe)? i pay paypal. Hope to getting possitive response-------------

i really hate it when seller's ship boxed gameboy games in a.. bubble mailer.

had one seller even ship me a brand new sealed gameboy game in a mailer a few weeks ago. luckily, it somehow arrived in the same minty shape the picture showed. i didn't get so lucky a few days ago though when a seller decided to put three boxed ds games around a pokemon sapphire box (still left in box position rather than taken apart and flattened) and throw it in a ing bubble mailer. sapphire arrived crushed and one of the sides has about an inch long rip through the box.

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Well heres a new one for me. Paypal multi order shipping has been glitching out on me lately. Well I had around 10 things to send out today. All addresses were correct just to let it be known. But, one item (which it wouldnt let me change, and was a return) would only show up under another item that was delivered yesterday. I know it sounds weird but heres the rest.

Guy emails me this morning saying his RE6 never arrived yesterday like it said it was supposed to. He goes on to tell me that he opened up an investigation this morning at 730 with the post office. He also went down there and talked to his actual mailman and the mailman said he never saw the package.

Well first off, the post office doesnt open their doors till 830. Second, your actual mail man is not working the front desk. Third, you go on and tell me that you didnt check your tracking number until this morning when the glitch happened and you got another email saying your product was marked as shipped (which I did at 845 am est.) So then how exactly did you know it was delivered yesterday?

So basically the kid is trying to get his copy of RE6 for free. So annoying. I mean, the tracking number says its delivered. I keep my paypal shipping receipts, and the addresses both match up to what his paypal addy is. So either one of two things is happening. The kid is a scumbag trying to take advantage of the fact that a second shipping number got uploaded by mistake. Or his mailman delivered it to the wrong house.

Either way ill probably get screwed because ebay sucks more than a toothless prostitute on a busy friday night. Luckily for me, I have one last item up for buy it now, and then im never selling on ebay again. So sick of these cumguzzlingguttersluts that ruin ebay. </rant>

His mailman couldn't have delivered it to the wrong house because the mailman already said he never saw the package. Dun dun duuuuun.

Not only does your buyer want a free game, it's sounding like he's going to ask for a refund. Be sure to post his eBay ID in CAG's big blocked bidders list.

Well I called him out on it in another email. I got an email back back an hour later and oh my goodness a late christmas miracle occurred. He miraculously found his delivered package!!

Originally Posted by Kevbo887 Either way ill probably get screwed because ebay sucks more than a toothless prostitute on a busy friday night.

This made me lose it

Just sold a CPU processor for around $200.

Winning bidder emails me 10 minutes later.

"Sorry bro, I only have $90 in my bank account. Can you give me a week?"

Originally Posted by Doomtime Just sold a CPU processor for around $200. Winning bidder emails me 10 minutes later. "Sorry bro, I only have $90 in my bank account. Can you give me a week?"

Thats when i send out a second chance offer!!

Would of second chanced after he used the term "bro"

Originally Posted by Doomtime Just sold a CPU processor for around $200. Winning bidder emails me 10 minutes later. "Sorry bro, I only have $90 in my bank account. Can you give me a week?"

Hah, at least he didnt use buy it now, and then email right after and say, hey will you take $10 less than the starting bid. And of course he didnt reply to the cancel auction request and I had to wait the 10 days or so, to be able to cancel it.

Thats why now, I always use must pay instantly with buy it now.

Ah ebay.

I hate buying games described as mint only to look like they were used as a frisbie for a dog. I mean seriously, what the heck do people do to their games? EVERY disc game I have ever bought new still looks that way.

I also hate hate hate non paying bidders. Just had one last week tell me he didn't realize he won my auction, so he bid on others and still lost. So then he wants to buy my item now since he couldn't get it cheaper.

Another buyer won a PS3 Dualshock controller I was selling to tell me his kid son bought it with his account. So he didn't want to buy the controller. I thanked him for wasting my time and he promptly replied that he was going to beat his son and tell him that the hits were courtesy of me. Seriously. And of course a few days later he buys another dual shock for cheaper and it seems like he paid that guy.

I also get really nervous when people with 0 feedback or little feedback win my auctions. I don't want someone to claim the game doesn't work or isn't in the condition stated only to send me back a defective copy.