The Golden Rules of eBay Article Discussion Area

vertical_fool

What are the golden rules in respect of confirmed and unconfirmed addresses now that the ebay system has changed. I would originally only send to confirmed addresses, now however I don't understand.

In my most recent transaction which I've posted in this forum the buyer was stated as unconfirmed on the invoice that I was sent with his Paypal payment. However once logged in to Paypal under the transaction details it states OK to send?

I'm not sure of what to do as I don't feel comfortable sending them based on the information I've been given. The address doersn't even include the word road after the road name!

Regards

Vertical

madison-nyc

As a seller you are now covered by paypal protection even if it's not a confirmed address. They changed it quite recently as it did used to only be for confrimed addresses.

Deb

ness3765

Please be warned if you purchased a holiday from a seller on Ebay and pay through your Paypal account, with a credit card you are not protected if something goes wrong under any Paypal dispute.

This has just happened to me, although I won the dispute Paypal informed me that as I have nothing tangible to return to the seller, they can not give me a refund. My credit card company can not provide a charge back, as this only accounts for actual goods or if the seller went bust or into administration. I'm not covered under travel insuarnce either as the holiday was not cancelled before I left and it was not a natural disaster.

A seller sold me a 1 week holiday in Tenerife in his apartment, after 2 days the water supply was cut off as it turned out he had not been paying his bills, my family was forced to move to a hotel. I can not get any sort of refund from him, Paypal, Credit card or travel insurance. I am out of pocket for £250 and the larger expense of moving to a hotel.

Paypal & Ebay advised me that they will be considering reviewing their terms on holidays being sold on their website, in the mean time my advice would be don't. YOU ARE NOT PROTECTED IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG !

If any one has advice as to what I could do next to try to get some money back I would much appreciate their help.

worbikeman

westernpromise wrote: »

With say 7 seconds to go, Snipe Bidder's bid of £10 goes in and immediately the bidding rises to £5.50 - Manual Bidder's maximum plus the bid increment. Snipe Bidder wins the auction at £5.50, and Manual Bidder, who thought the item worth £20, loses.

One slight note of caution in this case: if Manual Bidder had bidded £9.51 instead of £5 he wins the item (at less than half its perceived worth) despite Snipe Bidder bidding a higher amount! This is because the EARLIER bid trumps the higher bid where the higher bid is not a whole bidding increment higher. This can be a snag with sniping and has happened to me a couple of times when using snipe bidding.

I'll get me coat.....

fermi

Test post! Please ignore.

basilseal

worbikeman wrote: »

One slight note of caution in this case: if Manual Bidder had bidded £9.51 instead of £5 he wins the item (at less than half its perceived worth) despite Snipe Bidder bidding a higher amount! This is because the EARLIER bid trumps the higher bid where the higher bid is not a whole bidding increment higher. This can be a snag with sniping and has happened to me a couple of times when using snipe bidding.

I'll get me coat.....

In the scenario quoted, a snipe bid of £10 would still beat the manual bid of £9.51, the snipe bid of £10 would only fail, (assuming 50p bidding increments) if a third user had bid £9, and put the price up to the first bidder's max bid, meaning that the snipe bid of £10 is 1p less than the required bid increment, which is the minumun required to make another bid.

this is why, when sniping, it's a good idea to set the snipe 'lead' time at 6 seconds rather than the standard 5 seconds, 6 seconds before the end of the auction is still too late for a manual bid to be placed in response, but if any other snipers have bid the same amount as you, then your bid registers first, being a second earlier, so takes precedent over later bids of the same amount.

for example, if two snipers both enter bids of £50, the one placing his bid at 6 seconds before the end would win the auction if the other guy placed his bid at 5 seconds. the second bidder could win with a bid of £50.01p, but only if the current bidding was still at or below £49.51p when his snipe bid was placed.

hope that makes sense.

StaffsSW

I think this needs splitting into it's own thread...

chipz

HarryPotter wrote: »

WOULD GUESS WINNIGN THIS AUCTION WILL GET YOU AN EMAIL TELLING YOU TO GET A JOB AT MC DONALDS, THE FREE BURGERS ARE PART OF THE BENEFITS OF WORKING THERE

now i know where to go for my next career move

ariesboy

SiobhanG wrote: »

When you check a seller's feedback, always read their negative comments, even if there's only one or two. It'll give you the best idea of what might go wrong.

I think this is a little unfair. We have around 2000 feedbacks with only 1 negative which was someone saying they didn't get their item. She didn't get in touch with us at all! Even when she left the negative I emailed her saying we could send her a replacement but she didn't bother replying!

Remember that ebay is about trust and if buyers don't tell sellers that there is something wrong (i.e. quality of item, not arriving) and give them the opportunity to remedy it then the entire trust principle falls apart.

tozza

I agree with ariesboy ( even though I`m a Taurus "boy" ) there are a lot of "nit pickers" out there and apart from the "unmentionable" Hong Kong company who cheated and said they had lost the item so they didn`t have to sell it to me at the price won and the "lady" who said I wanted "something for nothing" after my winning bid was refused I have got nothing but trust and praise for Ebay - after 179 transactions ranging from £4000 to 1p. I would be rather more suspicious of no comments and a new seller , but even they have to start somewhere................................