When I sold my car on eBay a year ago, I put it on as a classified advert that should have stayed on for a month. I forget how much the advert was but I sold the car within days so I cancelled the advert. I got a refund for the unused time so it ended up costing me less than a fiver in total to sell an £11K car!!!!!

horobags wrote:Thats terrible, I often buy off ebay, feedback can be say 97%, when you read the feedback reviews, you read some really bad trading, so why do ebay give them such a high rating??? Because these rogues,villans,nutcases are paying ebay fees, so they get away with it, we pay our hard earned money and get pissed about. Makes me mad, I always check out a sellers reviews as well as just feedback score.
Unfortunately when selling like yourself, you are open to time wasting abuse . Hope you find a genuine buyer.

It's not ebay that gives them the rating it's the buyer, if he has 100 buyers and only 3 are dissatisfied then he gets a feedback of 97%.

horobags wrote:Thats terrible, I often buy off ebay, feedback can be say 97%, when you read the feedback reviews, you read some really bad trading, so why do ebay give them such a high rating??? Because these rogues,villans,nutcases are paying ebay fees, so they get away with it, we pay our hard earned money and get pissed about. Makes me mad, I always check out a sellers reviews as well as just feedback score.
Unfortunately when selling like yourself, you are open to time wasting abuse . Hope you find a genuine buyer.

Sadly when people put bad comments by using the positive feedback option it actually strengthens their reputation and makes them harder to get rid of. Much better to follow the non paying bidder option as this puts a marker against them, In this guys case if everyone had done that rather than slag him by using the positive feedback route he'd have been long gone by now!¬

There's an even easier way click on 'Negative' when leaving feedback.

E bay can be a nightmare and their support none existant. I got conned a few years ago when a brand new power tool I brought was very used. I even had an email from the seller laughing about how he had conned me. Took ages to get my money back from PayPal and eBay still allowed him to trade. I then had trouble selling a phone with a buy now add (Nigerians tried to con me). EBay advice was never to use buy now when selling. Thanks for the heads up and good luck with the sale.

Earl wrote:There's an even easier way click on 'Negative' when leaving feedback.

You cant leave negative feedback for a buyer.

Taipan wrote:

Earl wrote:There's an even easier way click on 'Negative' when leaving feedback.

You cant leave negative feedback for a buyer.

I have in the past, and also you have the option to reply to there feedback, or has it all changed?

He seems to have been unregistered for eighteen months, and was getting good reviews early in his ebay career so maybe someone hacked his account...

Thanks for the heads-up T&G!

spaceprobe wrote:E bay can be a nightmare and their support none existant.

It's only when you've been 'scammed' that you realise how eBay protection works. It's been engineered by barristers to protect eBay revenue. Whether it's a genuine seller or very shrewd 'scammers' they earn a lot of money.

The simplest scam is to charge HIGH 'postage and packaging' and send the "wrong" item in a padded envelope 2nd class. It then costs you time and money to send back. When the seller eventually admits they received the return item (after having to email eBay proof it was sent recorded delivery) they then claim the item you originally paid for has been "lost". You eventually get a refund from paypal (after jumping through all the hoops they set out to protect 'us') less the 'postage and packaging' AND the return costs.