Would you buy these bags of rubbish?

Crowqueen

soolin wrote: »

As per Crowqueen, I can't see any seller lasting long selling sight unseen goods. The first person to get something tatty or unsaleable is going to hammer the stars and feedback- then bye bye account.

If you are new to ebay you really need to consider the buyer more as they are the ones who decide ultimately whether you survive on ebay or not.

Also, I think there is a rule against mystery items to get people to stop listing all those wrapped presents from Auntie Olga who always gives me designer items. The seller makes a point about how there are branded items in there. If there were, then he would presumably have shown them, or perhaps even listed them separately to make a bit more money out of them.

If the buyer could see what they were getting it would be OK, no harm in it (well, except for all the other listing violations) but this is the classic pig-in-a-poke and it's banned.

johnnyboyrebel

soolin wrote: »

If you are new to ebay you really need to consider the buyer more as they are the ones who decide ultimately whether you survive on ebay or not.

The buyer is everything, I know this. My comments may not suggest that sometimes so don't think the wrong way about me.

I deal with many idiots on a day to day basis so this tends to rub off on any opinions i have, it is just banter though

soolin

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

The buyer is everything, I know this. My comments may not suggest that sometimes so don't think the wrong way about me.

I deal with many idiots on a day to day basis so this tends to rub off on any opinions i have, it is just banter though

I've just had to put up with a buyer asking for weight and dimensions of an item I am selling- but where weight and dimensions are clearly shown in auction terms. So my buyers won't read my auction description yet the seller being discussed here can sell a bag of mixed- unstated items for £7-madness isn't it?

Obviously_the_best

It's cash 'n' collect tho, so you might be able to see what's in them before paying

DCFC79

soolin wrote: »

Weren't there reports of people being nicked for using hooks to grab bags of clothes from the charity bins at supermarkets? Maybe this is where they all end up?

yes there was, it was on the 1 show last week, someone got stuck inside the bin so the fire service and police were called

Crowqueen

Obviously_the_best wrote: »

It's cash 'n' collect tho, so you might be able to see what's in them before paying

Doubt it, from the way the listing is worded, they probably are trying a pig-in-a-poke deal where they sell up the items and make it difficult for the customer to examine the items. They wouldn't be happy with someone who read the listing, started rifling through them looking for the promised branded goods, and found they were a lot of Primark and generic junk, and walked away.

They are trying all the buzzwords that speak to a buyer's psyche on these listings (except the pictures which look like bin-bags at a tip and put me right off) and it's been banned by eBay, so even if everything was straight up they are doing something actionable.

Now, obviously, they are fairly new, they will learn not to do it, but in that case they need to learn what's OK and what's not now.

MissGivings_2

Is it 'Pavlog's dogs', but I'm starting to become very curious about the contents of these bin bags!:D

Anyone near enough to have a rifle through?

knightstyle

Well, we are not too far away, that is how I found it, looking at everything in this area. But I am not going to throw my money away and waste petrol!

Crowqueen

MissGivings wrote: »

Is it 'Pavlog's dogs', but I'm starting to become very curious about the contents of these bin bags!:D

Anyone near enough to have a rifle through?

Dare I say it, but that's exactly what these sellers want you to get excited about. And I don't think they'd be letting you have a rifle before you buy.

Sellers like this who push psychological buttons knowing full well they are enticing people in probably to buy something that probably isn't worth the petrol to go and collect it are the scum of the earth. It's just about OK to do it inadvertently (someone put an auction up a week or two ago for size 13 shoes, with the only mention of them being children's size 13 in the category heading - which is way out of eyeline on the top of the auction in size 1 font and a buyer searching for "size 13" wouldn't have seen that category either...very misleading, inadvertently, but the person yelled blue murder when we told them it was too ambiguous for buyers to know which size 13 they were getting - and then to cap it all refused to honour their "returns accepted" policy, which is unlawful even in a private seller), but misleading auctions like that are done in the full knowledge that people will get excited about their old tat.

Just like the people who say "could be silver in there" or "silver earrings [[silver effect plastic]]" with the latter in the fine print.