Ever had an Ebay seller change the price on you?

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Spotted something on Fleabay that I needed, so I email the seller to double check that it is the correct, genuine, part. Seller confirms it is, so I go to do a Buy it Now, but the price appears to have gone up by 20% :thinking:

I doublecheck the listing and low and behold the seller still has the original, lower price in the main text! Next I have a look at the revisions page for the listing and the seller changed the price a minute or so before emailing back to confirm it was the right item.

Ebay- don't ya just love it :lol:
 
just let it run out and wait till its relisted
 
Yep some very decent sellers on Ebay but also some right arsholes, i got stung on there when i first started trading a few years ago, all the seller did was basically laugh, would loved to have grabbed him by the throat and caned the git.
 
maybe the seller spotted they had made a mistake with the price and in the interests of not misleading you "corrected" the "mistake"....
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I emailed him and suggested he got back to me when the price came back down again :lol:
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You wouldn't buy it now if it did....would you ?
obviously of questionable character, oh, they'd get an email all right, but it wouldn't be that polite.
 
joxby said:
You wouldn't buy it now if it did....would you ?
obviously of questionable character, oh, they'd get an email all right, but it wouldn't be that polite.
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:agree:
 
Not had the seller change the price, but i've just been tripped up by some seller (an eBay shop) using a non-standard check-out system that's used the wrong address.

I have my work address setup as the delivery address in PayPal and the standard eBay checkout picks that up and uses it. This braindead system, like the standard eBay one, takes you to PP where, as expected, my work address shows as the delivery address, but the check-out system uses the billing address :bang:

I didn't spot it until a day later so e-mailed the seller asking if he would change the address. Too late, it's shipped so I'll be schlepping down to the PO sorting office Sat. morning - unless he's sent it Sh***y Link, in which case the seller will be getting it back as I'm not going to Bristol or Swindon to collect something worth £4.
 
I used to just have my name and Paisley (the town, not the pattern) as my ebay address, but obviously the correct one on Paypal. Bought something off a seller who stated he offered "customer service second to none" and te eejit sent to My name, Paisley. :bonk:

When it obviously didn't arrive and he explained what he'd done I asked why he hadn't sent it to the PP address his response was too full of sweary words to reproduce here. I emailed him back and asked what happened to the "customer service second to none" and he responded that that only applied to customers who didn't complain.....
 
A couple of years ago I won an item on Ebay and paid the seller via Paypal.
He returned my payment stating he wasn't repaired to let it go for the price I had paid for it.
I emailed him and said if he wasn't prepared to accept the final selling price of an open auction then he should have set a reserved price.
He replied saying 'please feel free to leave me negative feedback', so obviously I did.
He then left me negative feedback which resulted in raising my hackles followed by umpteen abusive emails fired back at him over the period of a few days.
I ended up getting him struck off from Ebay because he had a record of not honouring transactions.

Ebay is hardly rocket science but people who can’t conceive the simplicity of the system push my patience to the limit.
No matter how often I state ‘Please do not bid if you live outside of the UK as I will only ship to a UK address’ when selling an item, I always get a few muppets asking for the postage cost to another country.

Ebay was great in it's early days but just like my job, meeting idiots is the norm these days.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I emailed him back and asked what happened to the "customer service second to none" and he responded that that only applied to customers who didn't complain.....
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LOL! That is an absolute classic :D
 
A few years ago I won a gamecube game, it didn't arrive, I asked the seller where it was, he insisted he'd posted it, I pointed out all UK post is insured for £36 so he could claim the loss from the PO.

He said he couldn't be bothered but would send me proof of posting to shut me up.

A couple of days later I got a photocopy of a POP with 8 items on it, my name was at the bottom of the list, the form said 7 items and the Post Office date stamp was a day before I won the auction:bonk:

Criminals, they're not bright are they
 
Never had that, but I find I can rarely win stuff without paying over the odds. Most people seem to "snipe" (get a bot set up) which will automatically outbid others in the last second or so of the auction. Incredibly annoying, which is why I resolved to buying stuff off here/amazon.
 
hi there
is it just me ............................it seems i only buy from people who are on holiday...just going on holiday ...just got back from holiday and thats why its late getting to me.
still waiting (six days) for next day delivery........my canon D40X only this time its "ill check the tracking for you and get right back" and that was monday and still no word.
mickytwoknives...
its tuesday ninth of september and still no refund i phoned this morning and was told ill get it tomorrow.....im a bit cheesed just now.
mickytwoknives
 
Looks like there's a few of us in the same boat. I won a Bronica on saturday night, invoiced and duly paid on Sunday, emailed yesterday for notification of despatch and a tracking number and heard nothing back. Does anyone fancy contacting the seller to ask a question about another item and seeing if he's still around for me?
 
Kev M said:
Looks like there's a few of us in the same boat. I won a Bronica on saturday night, invoiced and duly paid on Sunday, emailed yesterday for notification of despatch and a tracking number and heard nothing back. Does anyone fancy contacting the seller to ask a question about another item and seeing if he's still around for me?
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Hi i have many accounts with e-bay for selling and buying i just message them from another account to see if they reply, i use one for buying and one for selling, i can turn things round at a profit by just waiting for the post to arrive, new address and off we go .................ohhwww just gave away a secret.

regards Mark.
 
Mattfeliks said:
Never had that, but I find I can rarely win stuff without paying over the odds. Most people seem to "snipe" (get a bot set up) which will automatically outbid others in the last second or so of the auction. Incredibly annoying, which is why I resolved to buying stuff off here/amazon.
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It seems to depend what you are buying. I've seen people pay more for something second-hand on eBay than you can buy them new for - probably because people don't research retail prices first.

For example, I'm wanting a Wacom tablet. The Bamboo model can be had for about £36 + p&p from eBuyer - so about £40 all in - but it's more like £56 + p&p from the likes of PCWorld and people are payng over £40 for them off eBay.

I have a rule when buying computer stuff that I won't pay more than 70% of the new price. I'm also currently looking for 2GB of PC3200 RAM which is £47 from Crucial so I won't pay more than about £34 off the Bay, yet people are paying over £40 + p&p. That's a lot cheaper than you'd get at PCWorld, but not direct from Crucial. I worked out that 4 x 512MB DIMMs go for less on eBay than 2 x 1GB, yet they would cost a lot more new from Crucial.

You just need to do some research and accept that you'll often be bidding against people who either don't research the lowest retail price, or those who just get Auction Fever.
 
parish said:
It seems to depend what you are buying. I've seen people pay more for something second-hand on eBay than you can buy them new for - probably because people don't research retail prices first.

For example, I'm wanting a Wacom tablet. The Bamboo model can be had for about £36 + p&p from eBuyer - so about £40 all in - but it's more like £56 + p&p from the likes of PCWorld and people are payng over £40 for them off eBay.

I have a rule when buying computer stuff that I won't pay more than 70% of the new price. I'm also currently looking for 2GB of PC3200 RAM which is £47 from Crucial so I won't pay more than about £34 off the Bay, yet people are paying over £40 + p&p. That's a lot cheaper than you'd get at PCWorld, but not direct from Crucial. I worked out that 4 x 512MB DIMMs go for less on eBay than 2 x 1GB, yet they would cost a lot more new from Crucial.

You just need to do some research and accept that you'll often be bidding against people who either don't research the lowest retail price, or those who just get Auction Fever.
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Yes that's true, and it's often why I'll go for amazon or ebuyer over ebay, especially for computery stuff.

The problem I have though is that some of the stuff I want to buy is second hand or rare - e.g. old camera gear - and it's hard to put a solid price on that kind of kit.

Then there's the human factor - me being a stingy git! :lol:
 
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