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how long do you give ebay bafoons?
mrwibble - 14/6/11 at 10:58 AM

so i sold my prada sunnies for £75. quite a bidding war, and with 40odd watchers at one point.

good so far,

except its been nearly a week (week tomorrow lunch time)

and i;ve heard nowt. its a ebayer with 100% postive feedback on 17 items. i've sent 3 messages. can only assume shes gone on holiday!? but you'd of thought she;'d sort me out before disappearing...

last message i said contact me within 48hrs or i'll relist and give her neg feedback...

think i should give her any longer?

T66 - 14/6/11 at 11:17 AM

I sold a Fiat 126 interior recently, after 5 days of the guy arsing about, having not paid or acknowledged that to collect it was involving a third party (retropower) and they had to be considered as well...


I withdrew the sale and re listed it, and lodged a complaint.


3 or 4 days is more than enough time to organise payment etc - when I re listed mine I banned the original winner from bidding, and wrote a an advert basically calling him a dick, without naming him.



surprisingly he hasnt responded to the ebay complaint I made against him.



Just consider you may not acheive the same money if you re-list it, I ended up giving the interior away..

blakep82 - 14/6/11 at 11:22 AM

and you can't leave the buyer negative feedback anyway, so they've nothing to lose

nick205 - 14/6/11 at 11:56 AM

If you've given them 48hrs to contact you before relisting, then wait 48hrs and relist. With that level of interest they're going to sell again - just watch out for the same numpty bidding on them

Add on the relist that they're on a 2nd time due to a non paying bidder as well.

The Venom Project - 14/6/11 at 12:00 PM

I give people 48 Hrs max to pay me, It state it on the advert so I have no comeback from the buyer, I hate people who bid at the last minute and dont pay, dont get in touch, its always some wanker from the UK too. I never get messed around internationally.

Relist them, Block him as a bidder, don't offer to do any deal unless you have been paid by paypal.

ReMan - 14/6/11 at 12:48 PM

Bear in mind that the bid could have been placed days before she went on holiday, or even with a auto bidder in the last hours.
I would reasonably give her at least a week or so before you tak further steps. Unless you had made VERY specific mention in the advert that this wopuld be the case.

I would have paid you immediatly if I'd won

RoadkillUK - 14/6/11 at 04:58 PM

I just recently had a similar problem, I gave it a week and then lodged a non payment with ebay, my fees were reimbursed and I've since relisted and sold it.

Still heard nothing from the 'buyer'

I believe that ebay mark them down as a non payer and that goes against them should they do it again.

Ninehigh - 14/6/11 at 07:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
and you can't leave the buyer negative feedback anyway, so they've nothing to lose


So basically as long as I'm not selling anything I can bid on whatever the heck I want and if I don't feel like paying for it I don't have to because what are they going to do, ban me from bidding on the relist?

blakep82 - 14/6/11 at 07:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
and you can't leave the buyer negative feedback anyway, so they've nothing to lose


So basically as long as I'm not selling anything I can bid on whatever the heck I want and if I don't feel like paying for it I don't have to because what are they going to do, ban me from bidding on the relist?


thats pretty much it. they can put a non paying bidder claim in against you, 3 in 6 months (i think) and you get suspended from ebay for a few months, but i don't think you lose your feedback score

r1_pete - 14/6/11 at 07:36 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
and you can't leave the buyer negative feedback anyway, so they've nothing to lose


So basically as long as I'm not selling anything I can bid on whatever the heck I want and if I don't feel like paying for it I don't have to because what are they going to do, ban me from bidding on the relist?


You can receive non payer strikes, which result in account suspension, not sure for how long, but sellers are vulnerable to scammers, dreamers and general tossers.

JoelP - 14/6/11 at 10:15 PM

ebays a bit crap like that, but i was at a car auction the other day and it was amazing how much they shaft you for money - £50+ as insurance against it being nicked etc, 25 to register it with the dvla, and the seller pays 7%.

Worse, when i bought my van the muppets got my name wrong so the v5 says something disturbingly close to prat!

locogeoff - 15/6/11 at 03:27 PM

I would suggest reading Peirpoint's memoirs to ascertain how long you should give them.
Maybe a bit extreme for an ebay non payer though

The holiday scenario could be valid right now.

Regards

Geoff


[Edited on 15/6/11 by locogeoff]

Jon Ison - 15/6/11 at 04:27 PM

eBay have recently made further improvements "not"" one of them been hiding items won on a lot of peoples home page and even worse taking over almost all communication but not sendingnemails they said they will, formexample very few "you won this item" emails are been sent and checking our records only around 40% of dispatch emails are been sent.

They have even limited the number of messages you can send in a day ????

We only re opened our shop last Saturday after a week off, we currently have 27 unpaid items, we wouldn't normally rack that many up in a month.

eBay is currently more pants than it as ever been.

Ninehigh - 15/6/11 at 08:59 PM

Just as a thought there was someone on here had a similar situation and then got an email "sorry my dad died last month"