Thread: EBay Greed

You should have contacted EBay and reported it. What he did is totally against Ebay rules.

Originally Posted by bouschie

You should have contacted EBay and reported it. What he did is totally against Ebay rules.

Good to know. That's what I thought but honestly couldn't be bothered to look at the rules. And then it happened again. Twice...

Ebay watches for stuff like that. Yea it's against the rules and they only give you so many warnings before you lose privileges.

If both parties come up with a deal after an auction expires with no bids, an agreement to list a BIN for the buyer to snag it is a good thing.

What is wrong is the listing was ended because the seller did not like the way it was going with one bid.
If you have a bid, you have to honor the auction.

I had an item I knew little about on for bids or offers once. A guy made me an offer and I accepted it.
Then, another watcher PM'd me bitching that he would have paid more as bidding on it although he had not bid.
Had he bid early, the offer option would have been taken off.
I did not know what to say.....

First come , first served .

Originally Posted by bouschie

You should have contacted EBay and reported it. What he did is totally against Ebay rules.

Good luck trying to contact them these days. Before COVID, you could call and speak to a rep but not anymore and they need to hire all their reps back to answer phone calls. I had an issue not long ago in which I sold an item (Harley turn signal module) but the buyer said it wasn't working so I told him to do a return. That was a mistake on my part but they changed their rules or policy. I replaced the part for him and eBay refunded his money!!! I tried calling them like I used to but they instructed me to go to their help section and that ran me in circles. I had to send him a message to return my money. I didn't hear from him so I finally found where I could report him but they did nothing about it. I finally sent him another message a week later and he replied apologizing and I sent him my email address to pay me via Paypal which he did. Thankfully he was an honest buyer. Now when you do a replacement, they need to send an item back on their own and not have them do a return. Most of the time, it isn't an exchange though. I suspect he didn't plug it in all the way because they can look plugged in but not locked in place and won't work. I need to find one of my brothers with an '07 -up to test it out. I'd bet it's good.

eBay is a joke. In the past 3 months I had at least 3 auctions I was bidding on cancelled because the "listing was wrong" just for the item to be relisted immediately and sold as BIN.
There are zero rules as long as they make their cut.

I never have a problem contacting Ebay.

Click:
Contact us
Buying
How bidding works
Have us call

Usually get a call back in 2 minutes or less.

You can't blame folks for wanting to get as much as possible for their item. That's the name of the game. If They won't enforce rules well.....

I haven't sold recently but when I did I always had offers to sell outside of Eboy and a couple times I did and they found out and charged my credit card for their cut anyway and I got a warning not to do this again.

Of course if there ways around it and people will use all the loopholes at their disposal.

It's the perogative of the seller to set their prices however they see fit or decline offers as they see fit... Some people know what they have and when they get lowball offers they know there is zero mutual respect, other people have no clue so they are basically shooting from the hip and since $20 goes almost nowhere in this country these days (less after fees), they probably feel better off letting something remain up to try getting more unless someone makes a more aggressive/compelling offer.