Ebay eggs by post

Hintza

I've had a look at some of the adverts on EBay and the sellers don't seem to guarantee fertility. I would have thought all you can really go on is feedback.

Would you get a SNAD claim through? I'm not sure you would but I guess you can try.

cyberbob

I agree looking at most of the adverts on ebay I would doubt a SNAD claim would win.

hermum

Nothing ventured nothing gained. Would ebay & paypal look on the disclaimer in the same light as any seller who says once an item has been put in the post it isn't my responsibility. I would put in a claim it doesn't cost you anything.

cyberbob

hermum wrote: »

Nothing ventured nothing gained. Would ebay & paypal look on the disclaimer in the same light as any seller who says once an item has been put in the post it isn't my responsibility. I would put in a claim it doesn't cost you anything.

As its not a disclaimer on postage options(which is in ebay terms and conditions and consumer law) its part of the description like saying an item is brown or something I doubt very much the OP would win the dispute. As you say they can give it a go though

boombap

Has the seller any feedback for similar listings? If so can you gage anything from that?

I'm quite interested in this thread as I've looked at quite a few egg ads in the past. When you first come across them it does seem a bit potty at first but many people do sell and buy hatching eggs on there.

Some of the prices can be sky high - I remember looking at some Peacock eggs that went for mega-bucks.

Hope you evetually have some hatchers OP,

S.

Silveralice

At last an eBay topic I know something about!
I've bought hatching eggs on eBay before - in fact I have 5 chickens in the garden at the moment which I bought as eggs last summer. I bought 4 lots of 6 from 4 different sellers (different breeds) and incubated them all at the same time. I got good hatch rates from 3 of the sellers and none at all from the fourth - I opened the eggs afterwards and found all had developed for a day or so and then died. As the eggs were posted during a heatwave last summer, I am sure the embryos started to develop in the post in the heat and then died before I started to incubate them. Those eggs were sent in an ordinary egg box with just a bit of extra tissue paper packaging, whereas the other 3 lots were all dispatched in special insulated polystyrene boxes for the transport of hatching eggs.
In my case the seller refused me a refund or replacement eggs, even though the fact that other eggs had hatched successfully showed it wasn't a fault with my incubation. I thought about making a fuss, but I couldn't be bothered in the end.
If you haven't done so it might be worth opening your eggs to see if there is any sign of partial development, as obviously if the embryos started to grow and then died it is more likely to be a fault with the incubation than anything else. (It's pretty obvious if the eggs have started to develop or not, even if they have gone rotten since, yuck.) If you only had this one batch of eggs incubating, and so don't have any goslings from other sellers' eggs, you can't be sure that the incubation was completely correct unless you are very experienced (maybe you are!) Was your humidity correct, did you have automatic turning, etc?
If the eggs were poorly packaged, like mine were, then bad conditions in the post might be a factor too? They could have overheated if left on a radiator/behind a window on a sunny day, etc.
And yes, to the other posters, it's entirely within eBay rules to sell hatching eggs!
Hope this helps.

Silveralice

sorry - just read the middle of the thread more carefully and realised humidity etc ok - my bad.

Rotor

Thanks anyway silveralice. I've incubated quite a lot of eggs over the last 3 or 4 years and several batches from ebay. This is only the second batch that has entirely failed.(The first were rhea eggs!)The first lot were before i'd read these forums so I didn't realise you could try for a refund.
I decided that if even 1 egg started to develop I'd stand any losses but if none did I'd try for a refund which is where I am now.
I'll post the outcome

fuzzgun19

What was the outcome?

Oliver14

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

What was the outcome?

You do know this thread is 15 months old so I very much doubt the OP is still monitoring it.