eBid support happy for seller to relist after he wasn't happy with auction price

BillTrac

suited-aces wrote: »

Anybody else get the impression these new posters are clever ebay staff?

not that clever as they seem unable to get hold of a dictionary or a spell checker.......:rotfl:

Perhaps they should look on Ebay?

martinknowsnowt

terra_ferma wrote: »

when someone can only resorts to insults to win an argument, it's always a good sign :j

ebid staff or ebid seller, I don't think you realise the damage you are causing to ebid

Up to the fifth post this thread was going along fine, and then a group of your regulars decided to ignore the fact they know nothing about the subject, as none of you were discussing the topic and instead some form of paranoia set in.

Now if you do not find this are your other comments as offensive
new member, 0 posts, where have I seen this before...? Oh yes 'spam type posts' soolin was referring to...

And by reading some of the comments from your friends on here then, I agree with their posts that they should not come over to ebid, as if this is how you act toward people that come to your site, then please that is great.

As a few people that actually knew more about the subject than you did tried to respond, and they have been blatantly attacked, called spammers, and even accused of being one person.

Now read back through your own posts and tell me what did you add to the actual topic, other than being offensive to new people on this site.

And it was not just you unless you are telling us that you have more than one account open and were all of those people attacking the new people. I don't know, as there were several of you seemed to have the same agenda.

And even when any of you were asked to partake in the actual topic direct, then it was ignored.

But as to that paranoia, I would deal with that or if not stick to a blog, where you are less threatening to people.


Now the story of this if you wish to get back on topic is.

A new seller on ebid made an error, and a buyer seen that error and instead of trying to warn them, they thought they would take advantage.

Now when that did not work and the seller realized their mistake relisted the item with the correct pricing.

The buyer was not happy with this, so left negative feedback now ebid began to investigate what happened now if the buyer responded to ebid in the manner they have shown so far or that they looked at the sellers error and thought of it as an error, ebid I assume tried to fix it in the best way possible, so that no one lost out, as the buyer had not paid for anything and they had basically lost what they seen as an opportunity.

So this buyer decided he was still not happy and began to complain with this story on the ebid forum, then on another forum and then on this forum. and will probably go on and find other forums to complain on.

Now I did not actually follow the original thread on the ebid forum or the other forum but got most of that info from this thread and the new thread about this subject on ebid.

So have any of you got anything to say about the actual topic, other than listening to the paranoia going on that may be some form of problem with this site?

If it is a problem with this site then I would try and correct it, as looking at other threads, this site does seem to have a use but it just seems a shame that topics are being allowed to be swamped by the paranoid, that are not offering anything constructive to the discussion but seem to be trying to incite a reaction.

And OP I do not sell electrical goods but I can guarantee that the price you see is the price you will get on my goods, as with most sellers on ebid. You were just unlucky and found a new seller that was still set to selling on ebay, so has not worked out how to handle the system, the customers or the situation in any method that the rest of us have.

nicechap

Gosh, this thread is so funny, the contributions from illiterate ebid sellers who see potential buyers as stalkers and support suppressing the truth about a dishonest seller, is woefully funny. They don't appear to understand the concept of what an auction is, maybe they should tell ebid to redesign itself as a price offered/ accepted one, oh, that's right, gumtree already exists and has lots of fraudsters on it too.

The message I take from this thread is to stay clear from buying on ebid. Which is exactly what ebid's problem is, dreadful sales performance. Despite all the promises made by their previous PR team.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/483786

trukdiver

BillTrac wrote: »

not that clever as they seem unable to get hold of a dictionary or a spell checker.......:rotfl:

Perhaps they should look on Ebay?

Well, if they ARE Ebay staff trying to discredit Ebid, they are doing a pretty good job...:rotfl:

martinknowsnowt

suited-aces wrote: »

Okay, assuming you are genuine, can you really not see that you are doing the site you oh so love a great disservice.

When a poster who has been around for a while posts in favour of something, it is safe to assume they are just on the forum and are giving their two cents on it. It is not as simple to assume that when a new poster pops up, solely to praise or defend a certain company, that it is a random internet person who feels the need to do this. The probability of it being someone with a vested interest is greater.

When multiple posters join solely to defend a company, the laws of probability dictate it even more unlikely that tthese people were all just browsing, randomly came across the thread at the same time, and all felt the need to post broadly similar comments on solely the one thing.

Put simply, even if you are genuine in this case, the balance of probability suggests you are not. That is why it is good forum etiquette to point this out to people who might not realise, and would take trickery at face value

But would you not expect people selling on a new to us site to have a vested interest.

Any interest is vested one way or another, as you would not care enough to make a comment if it was not.

And as to your forum etiquette, if you read through the thread from the start, the thread was being argued as a forum should until the fifth post and the "forum etiquette" took over and basically destroyed any discussion, as those people your "forum etiquette" was attacking took offense to it.

To me your "forum etiquette" basically destroyed what could have been a good and informative discussion on neutral ground.

Instead all the post turned into what was the paranoia of the "forum etiquette" and the strange thing about it, you said it so much that your other regulars began to believe it and then began to blame those new to this site rather than seeing it for what it was and just a few oversensitive members paranoia.

That is a problem for this site that you need to fix

lovinituk

martinknowsnowt wrote: »

But would you not expect people selling on a new to us site to have a vested interest.

Any interest is vested one way or another, as you would not care enough to make a comment if it was not.

And as to your forum etiquette, if you read through the thread from the start, the thread was being argued as a forum should until the fifth post and the "forum etiquette" took over and basically destroyed any discussion, as those people your "forum etiquette" was attacking took offense to it.

To me your "forum etiquette" basically destroyed what could have been a good and informative discussion on neutral ground.

Instead all the post turned into what was the paranoia of the "forum etiquette" and the strange thing about it, you said it so much that your other regulars began to believe it and then began to blame those new to this site rather than seeing it for what it was and just a few oversensitive members paranoia.

That is a problem for this site that you need to fix

Everyone will draw their own conclusions from the posts that are being made here and on other forums (both for and against) . If you think what you are posting is helping ebid then the best of luck to you.

bebewoo

I think I might bid on it then refuse to pay, anyone wanna join me? I don't mind if I get banned by ebid, never buy from there anyway.

terra_ferma

martinknowsnowt wrote: »

But would you not expect people selling on a new to us site to have a vested interest.

Any interest is vested one way or another, as you would not care enough to make a comment if it was not.

And as to your forum etiquette, if you read through the thread from the start, the thread was being argued as a forum should until the fifth post and the "forum etiquette" took over and basically destroyed any discussion, as those people your "forum etiquette" was attacking took offense to it.

To me your "forum etiquette" basically destroyed what could have been a good and informative discussion on neutral ground.

Instead all the post turned into what was the paranoia of the "forum etiquette" and the strange thing about it, you said it so much that your other regulars began to believe it and then began to blame those new to this site rather than seeing it for what it was and just a few oversensitive members paranoia.

That is a problem for this site that you need to fix

You are giving me too much credit

nicechap

martinknowsnowt wrote: »

But would you not expect people selling on a new to us site to have a vested interest. but its been running since the 90s, hardly new

Any interest is vested one way or another, as you would not care enough to make a comment if it was not. I can safely say I am not interested in ebid - the only vested interest I have on the subject is the truth.

And as to your forum etiquette, if you read through the thread from the start, the thread was being argued as a forum should until the fifth post and the "forum etiquette" took over and basically destroyed any discussion, as those people your "forum etiquette" was attacking took offense to it.please report any abusive posts as per the rules you agreed when you joined this site

To me your "forum etiquette" basically destroyed what could have been a good and informative discussion on neutral ground. I disagree, how can you have neutral discussion when you state there are vested interests?

Instead all the post turned into what was the paranoia of the "forum etiquette" and the strange thing about it, you said it so much that your other regulars began to believe it and then began to blame those new to this site rather than seeing it for what it was and just a few oversensitive members paranoia. I see it as an attempt by disillusioned ebid sellers trying hard to claw back their lifetime membership fee by ignoring the OP's case.

That is a problem for this site that you need to fixwhy? MSE is worth considerably more than ebid, and works because of the collective effort of people wanting to SAVE money (clue is in the site's name) Your posts have just helped confirm why buyers should steer clear of ebid

No doubt you won't appreciate my contribution

suited-aces

scotchebidder wrote: »

ive told you who i am and why im here its pretty ovbious from what ive said, i guess in your eyes a cynical approach is the norm here,

taking the hump or a more friendly way of putting it is i dont appreciate a chancer slaging of the site i trade on maybethe guys a little insecure and feels the need to tell the whole world hes tried a chance and it failed looking for support were ever he can get it? it also seems to me your a bit of a baiter your first and obvious tatic is not to respond to what ive said but to ask a new question each post with little jollys in the middle "clever ebay staff" "ebid plant" witch say to me your fishing for a reaction sorry but not gonna happen, you have not once in this thread debated, confered with the subject,

your clever my friend but not that clever! and a tad obvious

So just to clarify, I am supposed to take everything you say at face value, just because you say it, but, at your request, I am also suppose to disbelieve the OP when he posts something.

How does that work?