Buyer does not want item...1 minute after winning!

robpw2

bobsbargains wrote: »

If you are down £100 in fees like i have been you would not simply cut losses and re list get these people off e bay for life

How did you end up £100 down in fees , was this on one item ?? or are you just really unlucky and had lots of non paying items.

porto_bello

Unless I'm misreading this, the winning bidder has simply refused to pay for an item they have won - whatever the excuse. Surely the thing to do is to get such people off eBay and so the appropriate thing to do (as suggested by chickaroonee) is to raise a non-paying bidder case. - Then the bidder gets a non-payment strike and the seller gets their ebay fees refunded.

After a couple of non-payment strikes, the bidder will find they can't bid on items and can't mess other sellers about - great!

The alternative is for the offending buyer to walk away from their responsibilities and the seller who has done nothing wrong to pay the price, by losing out on their fees - surely that's not a satisfactory ending? :eek:

kimmy112

soolin wrote: »

So how much do you trust a buyer who cannot enter the correct amount even after being asked to confirm on two separate screens to agree to a mutual when asked?

it can be done, ive done it before. i some how managed to enter my highest bid for a cd at £100, maybe the buyer did something like that and didn't realize that you could retract bids if you have made a mistake.

hermum

Don't cancel it, the sooner pratts like this get themselves blocked from buying on ebay the better.
After 4 days open a NPB dispute, close after 4 days you will get your FVF's back but not your listing. She'll get a strike, 2 in a 12 month period & she'll have barred herself from buying from most people.
There seems to be more morons like this on ebay at the moment then ever before.

Two Npb's were closed on my selling account on Monday, I have 2 more open now, I'm a private seller who sells just a few things, 9 items this month, 2 not paid for.

Gothicfairy

I can see the point of just cancelling and moving on but as Soolin has already said, what is say No ? Seeing as they are claiming they can not enter a bid correctly who is to say they can enter a reply correctly and then you are stuck paying the fee's etc.
Also as ebay has removed the right of the seller to leave neg feedback there is no other way to try and make the place better in the long run then to go through the whole NPB process and if that seller carries on then sooner or later then become unable to bid on most auctions.

I totally agree with Porto bello...why should bidders like this be allowed to get away with it because if they do once they will try it on again and again.

If it were me I would just go through the whole process properly and if they pay make sure you send the item by a trackable / signed for method and KEEP the recipt and details incase of any " it didn't arrive" problems.

hermum

OP put her id into the advanced search, look to see if she's bid on something similar, it seems that you're getting fools who want something & place bids on several similar & then only go through with the lowest priced sale.

bobsbargains

with over 3000 sales on ebay 100 % good feedback unfortunately there are some scum out there who just bid for kicks . it is easy to withdraw a wrong bid before the auction end it is your wright to do this thats why e bay put this in place but not at the end when the sale has gone through ..it is an auction after all and buyer beware...... when selling items fees e bay and paypal take are high ie 99p sell you can end up with only 38p items in range 1000 upwards generate huge fees when someone out bids a genuine buyer for kicks the time it takes to recover the loss is 8-10 weeks £100 S out your bank on yopur next bill which you cannot stop, to pay e bay this is not re imbursed until next bill if dispute is settled and the good genuine buyer is put off the sale and lost forever. kick them off i say. there would be no need for money expert at all if everyone was as honest as you now would there ! cheers

porto_bello

kimmy112 wrote: »

it can be done, ive done it before. i some how managed to enter my highest bid for a cd at £100, maybe the buyer did something like that and didn't realize that you could retract bids if you have made a mistake.

Isn't that simply saying that the seller, rather than the buyer should pick up the bill for a buyer's poor typing skills?

mikey72

Gothicfairy wrote: »

If it were me I would just go through the whole process properly and if they pay make sure you send the item by a trackable / signed for method and KEEP the recipt and details incase of any " it didn't arrive" problems.

SD is probably best, as they won't be the happiest of buyers, and is it exactly as described, or would they be able to do a SNAD?

kimmy112

porto_bello wrote: »

Isn't that simply saying that the seller, rather than the buyer should pick up the bill for a buyer's poor typing skills?

no, i was just saying mistakes can be made