Bidder with 0 feedback

archiesdad

Hi I have an item of furniture listed on ebay with 1 day left on the auction have just checked my listing and someone today as bid item up to over £300 but has no feedback score.

Should I be worried?

Have said on listing I would prefer cash on collection, there was another bidder on the item should I cancel the bidder with 0 feedback?

If so how do I do this?

melliott1963

Everyone has to start sometime - we were all 0 feedback once!

If it's cash on collection, then I don't really see a problem. Maybe they signed up because they liked the look of your item?

But DO NOT accept paypal on a collection item or you'll be opening yourself up to a possible scam.

Is over £300 for the item a good price or way over what it should be? If it's the latter, then maybe you should be a bit wary.

archiesdad

Thanks the item original value was £1500 so not over the odds, just didn't want to open myself up to a scammer. Can I refuse to take aypal if it's on my listing?

Any

Tell him it's cash on collection and see what he says.
As was said - everyone had to start somewhere, how did you start?

soolin

If he insists on paypal you cannot refuse and then you have the paypal scam scenario of course.

I am not normally worried about new bidders at all, I usually find them polite and courteous and much quicker to pay than some with better feedback. However I would be concerned here especially as you have in your listing that you 'prefer cash on collection' as that is of course a reprotable offence and there are vigilante buyers out there who like to make a point that you can't say that.

If you remove their bid though you are left with just bidder and item would go at your start price.

You could of course email the buyer politely and enquire in a round about way about how they would collect and whether cash would be acceptable and guage your decision on what they say.

pinkshoes

Ask them how they're intending to pay for it, and if they want to pay by paypal, then the item will need a tracking number for delivery (and thus not collection). You'll then need to get a quote for this and ask them if the cost is ok. If they think it's too much, then say they could pay cash on collection instead.

Zero feedback doesn't mean much.

archiesdad

hi thanks for your quick replies.
may have slipped up again, didn't realise that i couldn't insist on cash on collection and messaged them to say that beacuase of thier low feedback i would have to insist on cash.
what is my best bet now

pinkshoes

just email them back, apologise for the error, and that you meant that due to being previously ripped off, if they want to collect the item, then you would prefer them to pay cash, but should they want to use paypal, then they'll have to pay for a courier so the delivery can have a tracking number!

appleblossom

You can't refuse paypal though even if it's a collection only item - we are selling a sit on lawn tractor atm, I have put cash on collection preferred but paypal alsp acceptable (hoping they will do coc) but ob. I could not courier the item!!

I have paid for several large value collection items by paypal without any problems and had the buyers insisted on coc then I would have reported them as non-performing sellers and they would have lost my bid as I don't have that kind of money to hand -my pp account is linked to a credit card (not mine so I can't draw the cash from it) -

Everyone started with 0 feedback, I would simply leave the bidding as it it, he may well get outbid anyway in which case all the worrying has been for nothing and if he does pay by paypal do routine checks like does pp address match ebay address and 192.com - saying that if it's confirmed then you know that it's been checked by pp so if he does try anything then at least you are safe knowing you have his address.

Personally - would love to insist on coc as I know the tractor will get reduced a lot by the time ebay have taken their cut alone but as per ebay t&c's, Im afraid you cannot insist.

chja

Not read up on the Paypal rules, but would it be in order to take a deposit by Paypal (£10 or so) with the balance by cash ?

Surely there must be a way around forced paypal for high value items as the fees would be massive - I'm sure on motors its a Paypal deposit and cash/draft on collection.

soolin

chja wrote: »

Not read up on the Paypal rules, but would it be in order to take a deposit by Paypal (£10 or so) with the balance by cash ?

Surely there must be a way around forced paypal for high value items as the fees would be massive - I'm sure on motors its a Paypal deposit and cash/draft on collection.

No way round it at all that anyone has found yet, and believe me they have tried. Deposit by paypal fine if buyer is happy to leave a small amount as of course it can still be charged back once buyer goes off with the goods.

Motors are different, paypal is not compulsory there and frankly anyone that takes it for a car needs their head examined.