As a buyer what puts you off a listing?

TurkishDelight

cyberbob wrote: »

Make sure your sounds turned on. HERE

Oh god- it's bad enough having the rubbish raido adverts on the radio without ebayers making their own. I also like the

THIS IS A GENUINE SALE

As opposed to what?

mippy

I liked this:

http://www.dressaday.com/2007/05/how-not-to-sell-your-patterns-online.html

Ames

I have to say thanks to this thread I've become more cautious. I saw a gorgeous cardigan the other day, but the (registered business) seller had so many terms that went against the ebay ones (payment within 24 hours, no returns etc) that I just ran a mile instead.

Enfieldian

This one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2006-SAAB-9-3-2-0t-VECTOR-CONVERTIBLE-AUTOMATIC_W0QQitemZ400080040829QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item5d26a0f37d

As a great example of "NO RESERVE!" says the subtitle, yes but you STARTED the auction at £11,000 you numpty.....

pinkshoes

Enfieldian wrote: »

This one:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2006-SAAB-9-3-2-0t-VECTOR-CONVERTIBLE-AUTOMATIC_W0QQitemZ400080040829QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item5d26a0f37d

As a great example of "NO RESERVE!" says the subtitle, yes but you STARTED the auction at £11,000 you numpty.....

For someone who is a car dealer, I wonder why he's taken it to a dodgy lay-by for the photos...? :rolleyes:

cyberbob

Total and utter Tosh now that puts me off a listing

HERE

thepedestrian

I can Show you the door but you are the one that needs to walk through it......

I`ll get my coat then !

the182guy

Great thread, it might be worth OP putting the suggested tips in first post as a list, that way people won't have to go through all pages. I'm sure there are some really good tips hidden between all the posts.

How about international sellers that create a deceptive listing and exploit eBay listing features, trying to hide the fact that the item will be posted outside the UK. Trying to create the impression it is located within the UK.

I bought some jeans on behalf of my brother before xmas, I didn't check everything as I should have, so I was thinking the jeans were within the UK but turned out that the jeans were actually coming from Thailand. In the "item location" it said "Express shipping, APO/FPO" which is a bit of a let down by eBay that they allow sellers to pretty much falsify this data.

This should have raised an alarm with me to check it further I know. Another thing was the new eBay design does not show the sellers country of registration like it used to. Before it would have said Seller xxxx in Thailand, but they have removed this on the new design. The seller did not mention anything about the item coming from overseas, it just said, the item will arrive between 4-14 days, so another thing that lead me to believe that a possible shipping time of 4 days doesn't look like overseas.

All in all my own fault for not spotting it, I've been on eBay for years and couldn't believe I missed it, although I do think if the listing wasn't deceptive, coupled with eBay removing the sellers country I could have seen it.

The jeans arrived on xmas eve, the 14th day after payment, which I was not expecting having noticed the jeans were in Thailand a few days after payment. Would you leave a neg feedback for this?

lightisfading

did it actually say on the listing that they were in the UK? i get the impression .. no offence meant.. that you just assumed so. i don't think you have grounds to leave neg feedback though i would point it out in the comments.

It is DAMN annoying that ebay don't make it clear though.

VanyaHargreeves

Tbh I don't think 14 days is very long for shipping from thailand. I wouldn't leave a neg.