a heart-warming tale about Ebay - just for a change...

skintstudent_3

Okay so tale *might* just be stretching it a bit, but I thought it was too nice not to share! I am, as you might have guessed a skint student - just about to go for another year of debt to become a teacher... I've been working two jobs over the summer & selling things on Ebay to raise my tuition fees (£3000 :eek: )
Well... I had sold a keyboard & mouse (brand new) for £5.99, I only had one bidder. When I sent the guy the invoice he replied saying " do you want me to pay for it? as it doesn't seem a fair price", I replied saying he had won the item fairly in an auction. Well imagine my surprise when I woke up the next morning and eagerly checked my Paypal account to find that he had paid me £10.99.:T
There see it was worth reading, if only to let you know that (cheesey as it may sound) there are some very nice people - so don't despair!
One skint (but happy with the world and everything is sunshiney) student

RoCas

... and you just got your first "thanks" :-)

sarahlouise210

I paid someone extra once as I thought their postage was too low (and it was as it turned out. I was surprised they did nor email me about it though or put it in feedback...if I had received extra payment and a note explaining why I would have felt compelled to thank them. Oh well .....!

skintstudent_3

Yus, I emailed him back and explained he'd made a poor student very happy - he was quite relaxed about it - said he'd been there and he was a fair guy! I guess I'd just gotten quite cynical (so young too!) with people complaining that I had charged them 30p too much for postage and *PACKAGING* is what they forget.

& thanks for my thanks :j im new

Hintza

sarahlouise210 wrote:

I paid someone extra once as I thought their postage was too low (and it was as it turned out. I was surprised they did nor email me about it though or put it in feedback...if I had received extra payment and a note explaining why I would have felt compelled to thank them. Oh well .....!

I don't even read the payments half the time so might have been me sorry!!

Blairweech

One of the first items I bought on Ebay - a rag rug - ended up in a bit of a bidding war between mysef and someone else, went to about £35. After I'd paid, I got an email from the seller saying that the rugs only retail for £12, so he would send me a PO for the difference, and he did

Also, I sold a very rare perfume on Ebay, and my buyer was new (I was a bit wary), but she sent me her cheque with an absolutely lovely letter and a packet of chocolate buttons.

tsharp

This is good news, but i also find it weird. Why would ppl go to the extra effort to do such things? Lucky not everyone is like me, i guess!

sara2323

There definately are some great ppl on Ebay!

Several weeks ago I decided to sell a faulty Canon Camcorder on ebay which was just out of it's warranty, I was quoted over £200 repairs!!!, when I checked the completed auctions I could'nt understand why a similar one (with the same fault!) sold for over £100.

I started my auction for around £10 there was lots of interest and lots of people watching, later the same day someone emailed to say that the particular fault I had described was a known problem and the Camcorders were being repaired free!

Needless to say I closed the auction contacted Canon who repaired the Camcorder and returned it within 24 hours all FREE of charge. Saved me around £400 (which I was planning to spend on a new camcorder).

I thanked him several times, I still can't believe it as he could easily have bid on the item, bought it and had it repaired (Canon were'nt checking in receipts)

cheekychappy

sara2323 wrote:

There definately are some great ppl on Ebay!

Several weeks ago I decided to sell a faulty Canon Camcorder on ebay which was just out of it's warranty, I was quoted over £200 repairs!!!, when I checked the completed auctions I could'nt understand why a similar one (with the same fault!) sold for over £100.

I started my auction for around £10 there was lots of interest and lots of people watching, later the same day someone emailed to say that the particular fault I had described was a known problem and the Camcorders were being repaired free!

Needless to say I closed the auction contacted Canon who repaired the Camcorder and returned it within 24 hours all FREE of charge. Saved me around £400 (which I was planning to spend on a new camcorder).

I thanked him several times, I still can't believe it as he could easily have bid on the item, bought it and had it repaired (Canon were'nt checking in receipts)

well if anyone can, Canon can !

DrFluffy

skintstudent wrote:

Okay so tale *might* just be stretching it a bit, but I thought it was too nice not to share! I am, as you might have guessed a skint student - just about to go for another year of debt to become a teacher... I've been working two jobs over the summer & selling things on Ebay to raise my tuition fees (£3000 :eek: )
Well... I had sold a keyboard & mouse (brand new) for £5.99, I only had one bidder. When I sent the guy the invoice he replied saying " do you want me to pay for it? as it doesn't seem a fair price", I replied saying he had won the item fairly in an auction. Well imagine my surprise when I woke up the next morning and eagerly checked my Paypal account to find that he had paid me £10.99.:T
There see it was worth reading, if only to let you know that (cheesey as it may sound) there are some very nice people - so don't despair!
One skint (but happy with the world and everything is sunshiney) student

I sold a zip drive a few months ago, and miscalculated the postage - only by about a pound. When the buyer recieved it they noticed, and offered to pay more - bless them. I refused to take anymore for it, but I thought it was sweet.

postingalwaysposting

i brought a soft toy from ebay about a year ago (chicken run beenie) and when it arrived they had put a small stiff bear in the package too, i emailed and asked if they sent it to the worng person, and if so who did they want me to send the little bear onto, they emailed and told them it was for me, awww i gave it to my friends little daughter