Getting fed up with fleabay.

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I am getting really fed up with fleabay!. the last three buys, and they were not from private sellers, have been caused me aggro and expense.
I have in the last few weeks returned two expensive Dewalt drills, the first was faulty despite being brand new and the second was supposed to be brand new but clearly was a mail order return with parts missing !. Although I have had my money and initial postage refunded on both items I had to return them at my cost. The latest buy is a large dog cage, that arrived minus a side handle! I informed the seller who said they would send me one in the post, this they did but the handle was of a different design, about half the size, and looked like it was meant a tiny cat box not a huge 3ft x2ft cage but what really annoyed is that it was obviously second hand!.
I give up and will now pay more and buy local.
 
In a sense, I'm more wary of "power sellers" with 1000000+ feedback. You just know they will be uncaring. Ebay is now a mine field, even for sellers. Too many accounts have been taken over by hackers, and when the owner finds out, they contact Paypal and Paypal will claw back all the money from the seller. :(
 
I had my account taken over by a hacker who listed thousands of pounds worth of electrical goodies, got myself in a real panic over it until I was advised in the ebay forum to go on live talk to an ebay rep.
What I had done was clicked on a link within a dodgy listing and from that they somehow got my details.

And to add to my previous post PayPal do love to hang on to your money for as long as they can possibly get away with it.
 
Ebay is now populated predominantly by illiterate Delboys or scammers, and good sellers/buyers are the exception rather than the norm. I buy and sell most of my stuff on forums such as TP and AVF these days.
 
What really annoys me is all the blasted China and Hong Kong listings . We in the UK can not have our listings automatically shown in the US but we have to put up with thousands of listings from b****y China list ing an item 300 times. I am getting really fed up wading through pages and pages of it.
Paypal are scumbags. They took £750 from me for 2x laptops I sold . The first buyer took it to pieces and couldn't get it back working again.! the second buyer changed his mind and bought a new laptop instead. One laptop I got back in pieces broken the other laptop I never got back. Paypal took the money from my account without warning, never answered my letters or emails or telephone calls the 6 weeks later told me they had given the money back to the buyers .I spent 3 hours on the phone to Ireland talking to a monosybilic idjit and lost £800 in the finish.

My honesty guide is if people use their real name as their ebay ID chances are they are pretty straight (or stupid)
 
Evilbay:lol: thanks for that chuckle Karen that's a good description of it!.
Marky H I agree, I have had some genuine buys from regulars on hi -fi and photography forums including this one, much safer buying from a forum regular than some anonymous seller.
 
I just won a used dishwasher for £24.50! Picked it up and its perfect.

Like you, mass sellers make me more wary than someone selling a one-off.

Bought an "ipod car and home charger" from a mass seller. Turned out to be a "power supply" ... not a charger.

No replies to my emails but as it was cheap I left it.(which is probably what they rely on)

A studio light stopped working with its sensor though (UK) and that company sent another and told me to keep the original so now I have an extra one which i can use with its pc sync cord.
So, I shouldnt tar everyone with the same brush.
 
marky_h said:
I buy and sell most of my stuff on forums such as TP and AVF these days.
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which online auctions are these Marky ? does anyone else have any alternative methods of selling unwanted stuff rather than fleabay ?
 
So far, touch wood, I have only had one problem with an ebay purchase, where I bought an MP3 player with only a few minutes to go, so only read first 2 pages of feedback.... had I gone back further, to perhaps page 4 or 5 I would have found the one techie that bought one and discovered pretty quickly that they were cracked in some way so that a 1 gig player plugged into your puter said 4gigs...until you tried to load 4 gigs onto it :bonk:

However, [a lesson learnt] as I had paid already I allowed the claimed 5 day delivery, then contacted ebay and paypal and the seller when it hadnt arrived. A week later no player and no response from the company, paypal refunded us without a quibble [though of course from the day of the contact to confirm the refund to it actually landing back on the credit card, was about 8 days]


It really is a case of buyer beware unfortunately. I have found 1 chine based company that has always been reliable, but only by starting by buying stuff that was £3, and the most I have spent is £40.... and even then, I still wouldnt touch most of them with the biggest barge pole in the world :bonk:
 
peanuts said:
which online auctions are these Marky ? does anyone else have any alternative methods of selling unwanted stuff rather than fleabay ?
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I don't actually use auction sites really, now. I find the people and the experience so much better on dedicated subject forums: so I buy/sell camera gear on here (other photography forums are available, of course ;)), general gadget stuff on AV Forums, guitar gear on Jemsite etc etc.
 
My daughter regularly trades on flea bay ( well used to) until a competitor reported her over some jumped up charge ( they were peed off about her selling better goods cheaper, if the truth be told) long story short she sent a snotty email, ebay uk phoned her back and the short answer was " they are far bigger than you so we will believe them over you every time", " your banned for a month" Nothing like a bit of fair competion is there?! and the stories she has to tell about Paypal are really beyond belief half of the time
 
i,ve been lucky then. bought lots off ebay (to my wifes disgust) but never been stung yet.
if i,m buying anything i,m unsure of condition, i dont buy unless it goes fro peanuts.
if its to cheap to be true , it usauly is. theres a lot of power sellers listing cheap new goods. supposedly from the uk.
look at there details closer or read feedback ,to find the gear is coming from america or hong kong.
i have bought hong kong stuff, but only at lowly prices
.like mega high output headlight bulbs for the bike at £10 inc post for two.got to me in a week.
but wouldnt buy a £2000 D5 and lens for £1400 from HK. doubting if i,d evr see it , or get a huge customs duty sting.
you realy have to be carefull now.
 
>>>and the stories she has to tell about Paypal are really beyond belief half of the time<<<

I could tell a few as well !!.

A lot of sellers now stipulate bank transfer,postal order, or cleared cheques only, then there is no chance of charge-back or lame excuse delays in paying your funds into your bank account from Ebay/paypal.
 
Hmm, I've bought mulitple expensive items from Ebay as well as some smaller stuff and no problems as so far. I have also sold quite a bit and eveything has been smooth. Nowadays you have to be super vigilante...
 
Purchased a snowboard, bindings, snow boots and bag the other day for 40quid. Collected it and it was in perfect nick. Absolute bargains still excist, you just have to lookd for them :)
 
I've bought a few things of ebay in the past totalling up to probably a bit over a grand in total but im always ultra weary of it. I've never been stung yet as if something even looks the remotest bit 'not right' i just avoid it like the plague no matter how much im after it.

I havnt made any big purchases in quite a while though and I would be a lot more cautious about buying larger stuff now.

The only time i've ever had an issue with something I bought was a set of Sennheiser HD555's which stopped working 3 days after I got them, they where brand new and it just looked like a fault with them. I contacted the seller and they replaced with without any bother and even refunded me the postage to send them back. So its not all sharks :)
 
I bought my first dslr of a u.s. seller on fleabay, it didn't turn up. After a bit of checking the seller sent me another one, he wasn't happy but he did the right thing. Since then I've not had any problems with any purchases. I try to stick with sellers who sell honestly (no 99p items with £18.99 postage), check feedback and use my common sense.
 
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