Thread: Too good to be true

Your link doesn't work either Brighty83 Ebay links are changed by the forum software into rover links and I guess this sometimes goes wrong.

Let's see if it works for me:
170694436513

I think the seller just didn't want to sell it for only 99cents

Not long ago I bought a USA made Hunter ceiling fan off of the bay. The seller had a white painted model and a brass plated. I bought the brass. Took the guy 10 days to ship. When I finally get it I open the box and there is a white painted Hunter fan. He had confused the mailing labels. I was livid. This is a 50 pound item. I was not only angry because I didn't get the one I wanted and paid for, but because now I'm going to have to tote this behemoth to the PO to return it. I got a refund + shipping both ways but it still irritated the heck out of me. I didn't leave any feedback at all. To err is human.

Originally Posted by Piet

Your link doesn't work either Brighty83 Ebay links are changed by the forum software into rover links and I guess this sometimes goes wrong.

Let's see if it works for me:
170694436513

I think the seller just didn't want to sell it for only 99cents

That's bizarre, i tested it after i posted it and it worked...

i will post them like you did there for now on.

Just testing

Cheers

I contacted a seller to check stats on an item and made him an offer to end the auction early. He accepted and got several nasty messages. I haven't done that before, but it worked. If there is an item I really want...I may try it again. The auction had not ended yet. It still had several days to go. Is ending the auction early against ebay rules?

Originally Posted by jcsixx

I contacted a seller to check stats on an item and made him an offer to end the auction early. He accepted and got several nasty messages. I haven't done that before, but it worked. If there is an item I really want...I may try it again. The auction had not ended yet. It still had several days to go. Is ending the auction early against ebay rules?

Sort of but doing that as a buyer and a seller is IMO dishonest as hell.
Like asking to be paypaled as a gift instead of a purchase,is not right.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Sort of but doing that as a buyer and a seller is IMO dishonest as hell.
Like asking to be paypaled as a gift instead of a purchase,is not right.

I don't know about eBay rules, but I do know about the moral standpoint I have , online auctions involve a large element of trust, all you see is a photograph, sometimes there is a detailed description of the item(s) , usually by someone that has a good working knowledge of razors, more often than not it's along the lines of " a razir in gud conditiun, sum rust, the handle is split on one side and has fell off the other". You get the picture, there will always be scam artists out to make a fast buck on the unsuspecting, and there will always be the unwitting selling something far more valuable than they realise and there are the genuine who want to sell a quality item at a fair price, which leads me neatly into the next point, a fair price is only determined by what the buyer and seller agree on, fair to me might be exorbitant to you, what needs to happen is that we all deal on a level playing field, I do not want to enter an auction where there is the possibility of someone contacting the seller to make a deal on the side, I don't want to be a seller that is mucked about by a buyer who didn't really want the item, or cannot afford it. Or the buyer that has fairly won a bid not to get the goods because the seller has deemed that not enough was raised. If everyone behaves in a cavalier way at auctions like eBay then it does NO one any good.

Originally Posted by jcsixx

Is ending the auction early against ebay rules?

In your case yes, but it's something between the seller and ebay and ebay may not care enough to enforce their policy unless the seller does it too often.
How can I end my listing early? - see the 'fine print'

I understand that the integrity of the auctions is important. The offer we can to was the best one he had received.

All is fair in love, war, and razors.

Originally Posted by jcsixx

I understand that the integrity of the auctions is important. The offer we can to was the best one he had received.

All is fair in love, war, and razors.

may be true,but crap like that will disturb ones karma,You reap what you sew.

if the auction ended, with you as the winning bid, the seller is contractually obligated to sell YOU the item. Ending an item early, is not ending it at the last possible moment, or after an auction has ended. While other than feedback, there is not much you can do, they are in my eyes, your eyes, and the eyes of both the Bay, and the Law, wrong. People like that annoy the crap out of me.