Sold £299 ebay item for £1.04. Shock!

johnnyboyrebel

It is highly unlikely he will offer anymore than £1.04 as buyers who get obvious misprices like this will be as smarmy and slimy as they come.

No doubt he will take the !!!! and hand you £1.05 whilst saying 'keep the change'!

Personally as someone said earlier I would simply cancel the sale as there is no way I would hand over a piece of furniture (if this is what it is) for chump change like that. You made a mistake sure but the mentality of "deal with it, learn and move on" is ridiculous.

with small items etc. then you may aswell just send and put it down to experience but there clearly has to be some sort of common sense and a limit to this.

littlerat

Given the choice of paying £20 for a 60 mile journey, or doing it myself and it'd cost me half that, I'd do it myself. Don't blame the bidder.

This is a moneysaving site, considering in a typical 35-40MPG car you're looking at £10 or so in fuel, it just makes sense.

porto_bello

s_b wrote: »

its called a learning curve
i posted how i learnt by my mistake on a 99 p item start and no reserve that sold for 99 pence

My point is that it's not a curve worth learning. If you want £50 or £100 for something, set the starting price at £49.99 or £99.99 and relist as many times as necessary, on every free listing day. - Just one bid and you've got what you want.

Either you get what you want for it or it won't sell and you've lost nothing ... and it'll take 10 seconds to relist it on the next free listing weekend, and without any reserve price fees.

QuackQuackOops

Spook4King wrote: »

Just no - all those people saying "sellers like you are great" are so very wrong. If something doesn't sell at near a reasonable amount then you shouldn't have started all this nonsense and just straight up said it had been broken unexpectedly and refunded him via Paypal.

It's all well and good saying that it comes down to keeping the deal or not, because it isn't a deal. Most things sell on eBay for far more than they should. I sell a lot on eBay, and it really grinds my gears in cases like this where an item that is clearly worth a lot has a million watchers yet only a handful of people try and bid at the end - and they aren't even doing it themselves, its their goddamn autosniping programs. When eBay start doing something about that is the day that I will stick to their terms and accept the sale of a valuable item for 99p. Its rediculous that people can even consider that, and tell you that you are wrong for trying to get more money for it!

Tell you what everyone who is going on about how bad it is not sticking to the terms, list your phone on eBay with a start price of 99p. I'm sure if it's half decent you will see loads in completed listings that have sold for around £200 upwards. Yours will go for about £50, because of snipers. eBay is a joke, this is why you can't have fun 99p auctions anymore and have to basically just put what you want for the item as the starting bid.

EDIT

In case anyone needs some proof, I uploaded 18 items to eBay - all in the same catergory and all quite rare products. The listings have all been started at around £5 each, and have now been on there for 2 days, all ending today. I have already seen over the past month nearly each of these items sell for about £35-£50. 2 out of the 18 have one bid each. 2. Each one has between 20-30 watchers, yet 2 people have bid, because everyone wants to snipe at the end to grab them for a fiver. It is sickening. In before "bad feedback" as I am a power seller with 100% positive feedback.

It's not a good idea, its a way to rip off other people. I hate snipers, and I won't sell to anyone who I can tell is using one.

Errrr, I snipe nearly all my auctions but I dont use any fancy software. I do it manually. I put my bid in when the clock has about 7 seconds left on it.

Loads of snipers are doing it manually. How can you tell if they are manual or not? And why is a late bid any less of a bid than an early one?

QuackQuackOops

Spook4King wrote: »

Humour is the lowest form of wit.

Obviously my wording was bad, I would sell to snipers that throw in that extra 20p whatever to get the max bid.

What I won't tolerate is people looking at something with a start bid of 99p they know is worth far more than that and purposefully choosing not to bid on it to have a chance at getting it at 99p. Through it up to a pound the second you see it, maybe no one else will bid and thats fine. But that's not how it happens is it? If you do it like that you are just as bad as a sniping program/website and you use it and then actually expect the item worth £50 that you just got for 99p? Get real.

More fool you if you list an item for 99p when you actually want nearer £50 for it.

The price you want has nothing to do with bidders. It wont go to £50 if noone thinks its worth that.

What you need to do is list an item with a higher start price so that it doesnt sell cheap. If it does sell for 99p, then its because noone else wanted it at that time.

QuackQuackOops

soolin wrote: »

From my post 83



Two people thought this item was worth around £1, no one else even thought it was worth that much to bother bidding.

As for feedback, when someone genuinely loses an item or breaks it before despatch and gets a neg we all sympathise on here that the neg is unfair, as accidents do happen. I do think it is harsh for anyone to get a neg if they genuinely break an item before despatch, but with sellers prepared to lie I can see why some buyers do leave poor feedback .

I do not understand why you think it would be unfair to be negged for your failure to take care of an item that someone else had just bid and won.
You list an item and a buyer sees that item and determines whether or not to bid on your item or someone elses. They may decide that yours looks like the better one, place a bid, and hope that over the course of the week long auction that the bid is high enough to win.

Then they win! Great, they are delighted that they can now go ahead with their plans for said item but whats this? The seller has broken it? The seller was wrapping it up and accidently cut it instead of the tape?
How damn annoying! How careless! Most people would think a seller would take good care of an item that has just been sold to someone else.....the fact that the seller doesnt take care of it might suggest to a buyer that the seller is sloppy and neglectful and their carelessness has cost the buyer their time searching and buying this item.

You most definitely deserve a neg for that.

Riversong

We were without a cooker when we moved into our current home. We wob onr on ebay for a fair price, thrn suddenly after not looking further for other cookers and after making plans to get it. DUH DUH DUUUUUH the seller 'dropped it' I wasn't annoyed at losing a bargain but for the sheer inconvenience. It's hard cooking for four on a camping stove every night!!! So we had to find another one.

MoneysavingArthur

custardy wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4122842.stm

nah it wasnt this. it was from a random buyer who spelt 'hyundai' wrong. i was checking on her history as she had sold me a phone for cheap and was trying to add an extra £20 postage on top.

epm-84

Wig wrote: »

This was offered at £20 for 60 miles and turned down by the buyer

I meant offering on the listing before it was sold opposed to listing it as 'pick up only'

Swans1912

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies and helpful comments. To those that doubted me, I assure you that this is genuine and I'm glad you had the pleasure of some Schadenfreude out of my posting.

As for the fees, my item has sold for £1.04 having been listed at £0.99 so the listing was free but Ebay's final value fee of 10% means I clear just £0.93. The buyer hasn't paid by Paypal so I don't face the extra 24p deduction.

As for offering delivery, well I am hoping to earn a bit on that, that's why I offered.
It is a 60-mile round trip but it happens I am travelling there anyway.

The buyer is asking how much for delivery but says he would also pick up as he is in my area. The day he wants to pick up is the day I won't be in, as I'll be in his town.

To avoid another mistake, what mileage rate should I offer?

So you're asking for fuel money when you've admitted to travelling there anyway? I think that is cheeky. As a buyer I wouldn't want to fund your outings either.