ebay buying query

chja

mrdtrotter wrote: »

Shelly I dont think that is really the complaint, I think it is more about having details passed onto 3rd parties without being informed, if you deal with a person on ebay thats the person you have chosen to deal with irrelevant of price or product, or whats the point of ebays feedback system??

You are actually correct that there could be issues under the Data Protection Act here and the buyer could raise a complaint with the Data Protection Registrar that his details were passed to a third party without authorisation.

I see the comparision to writing out an address on a parcel, but that is a very different matter - the Post Office will not retain the addressee's details (as far as I know) and potentially use it for future marketing, etc.

Brooker_Dave

jw8725 wrote: »

You aren't allowed to sell something you dont actually have so technically the seller broke eBay rules.

eBay doesnt allow sell to buy schemes.

Drop shipping is banned?

TurkishDelight

chja wrote: »

You are actually correct that there could be issues under the Data Protection Act here and the buyer could raise a complaint with the Data Protection Registrar that his details were passed to a third party without authorisation.

I see the comparision to writing out an address on a parcel, but that is a very different matter - the Post Office will not retain the addressee's details (as far as I know) and potentially use it for future marketing, etc.

Couriers?
Ones who you book online and you have to hand over address details

NotQuiteNorbert

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at this.

monkeymonkeymonkey

It is unethical I think, but such is the way of a free-market, capitalist world...

frivolous_fay

Why the bump?

ArmitageShanks

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ChrisCar_2

jw8725 wrote: »

You aren't allowed to sell something you dont actually have so technically the seller broke eBay rules.

eBay doesnt allow sell to buy schemes.

Oh dear
Looks like I'm breaking the rules by making things to order.
I take payment before I make some of them too :-(

Astec

mrdtrotter wrote: »

We all know how business works Soolin, I would liken it to Morrisons going into tescos and picking up there BOGOF offers and then selling them for the usual price, and viseversa, there would be uproar on here im sure.....

A friend of mine has a grocery shop, he goes round asda/tesco/morrisons etc to get their bogof's to sell at full price. Should I report him??

Well done to the seller I say, great to see some initiative out there.

jasmineswhiskers

I guess while the seller hasn't officially done anything wrong and the buyer should have researched a bit better, it is kind of rubbing their nose in it. First thing the buyer would do is check HMV as it came direct from them (HMV is not a wholesaler) so it is a bit like saying 'I bought this at £6 - you could have too - and sold it to you for £12'. It's bound to get buyers backs up.
To post 60 - if my small grocery made it blatantly obvious that they had purchased BOGOF's at Tesco and were selling them for twice as much then I would be reluctant to buy - however if they didn't broadcast where they got their goods then it wouldn't bother me because I would be none the wiser.