Sold £299 ebay item for £1.04. Shock!

Strapped

I can't believe so many people are not seeing this is a wind-up.

vicx

Strapped wrote: »

I can't believe so many people are not seeing this is a wind-up.

I love it. It's getting all the regular's backs up :rotfl:

luvvlyjubbly

Must be a wind up....and if not and it was me....I would learn from my mistake but wouldn't sell, which is not good advice but i couldn't afford to otherwise and would take the hit regardless.....
Ok so it's not good practice but i have won many an item at 99p that suddenly seem to have gone missing, broken, dogs ate it etc etc....so i wouldn't lose sleep
I'm assuming this a personal seller not a business

Strapped

Yeah, I'm loving the advice on a money saving website to honour the deal too

mildred1978

Notmyrealname wrote: »

£25 for the job. It'll cost him 4 gallons of fuel and 3hrs out of his life. Much over £25 and he'll probably decide its worth doing it himself.

??????

Majority of cars today will do at least 30 mpg, ie 1 gallon each way. 3 hours to do 60 miles?? :rotfl:

Crowqueen

QuackQuackOops wrote: »

You may think of it as bad advice but it still stands.
The seller is not obliged to sell his item.
If feedback is left for a non transaction it may be removed under some circumstances.

In practice no, but in theory you could get a neg and low stars AND a non-performing seller report, which would be unremovable assuming the buyer has paid.

This is asking for trouble, just like on the other thread when you pushed this nonsense.

Sellers have to sell, just like buyers have to pay, otherwise they face being sanctioned by eBay in a number of different ways, just like NPB disputes sanction a buyer's account.

Crowqueen

Strapped wrote: »

Yeah, I'm loving the advice on a money saving website to honour the deal too

That's what you are supposed to do - it's not the buyer's fault the seller didn't start the item at a price they were able to accept without this sort of attitude.

If the OP should not honour the deal, then the next NPB also gets a free pass - but everyone quite rightly howls down buyers who don't pay - so why not sellers who don't sell.

And I think the OP's genuine until proven otherwise.

@Vic - forgive me, but I've seen you around enough to think you're a regular too. And I'm not sure I'd crow too much about it, given your other thread.

vicx

Crowqueen wrote: »

@Vic - forgive me, but I've seen you around enough to think you're a regular too. And I'm not sure I'd crow too much about it, given your other thread.

I might have been around a while but I don't regulate one particular board and post replies on every thread so I wouldn't say I was an eBay board regular.

Strapped

Crowqueen wrote: »

In practice no, but in theory you could get a neg and low stars AND a non-performing seller report, which would be unremovable assuming the buyer has paid.

Which makes not a jot of difference to a private seller, esp if (in the hypothetical situation described by the OP) they were a newish seller, who made a newbie mistake, and could just abandon that account.

We all know it's bad practice but you can polish your halo if it makes you feel better.

toffe

i like facts, and here are some facts......

the "contract" to sell which is supposedly formed when someone bids on an item on ebay is flimsy to say the least, thats because the only way to enforce it is through court action, and with this kind of contract all a court would do is make an order for the buyer to be put back in the position they were in before the "contract" was formed, as anything over this would be "unjust enrichment" to the buyer.

so as long as the op gives the money back, then hes done all that a court would order anyway so the buyer cant do a thing.

of course they can neg, but do you care?

here are some other facts, if you went into a big retailer,lets say tesco, and found a £299 item mistakenly listed as costing £1 then tesco would refuse to sell it to you, fact!

thats because the listed price is an "offer to sell" when you try to buy you are making an "offer to buy" and its not untill tesco accept your offer to buy that a sale is finalised, in other words an offer to sell is not binding to the seller untill the seller accepts payment.

there have also been cases on debenhams and comets websites where big ticket items have been offered at low prices by mistake and all of those sales were refused aswell.

so my advice, given that this is a money saving site, is follow the big boys in online and offline retail and refuse the sale, then sell it again elsewhere (for more money hopefully).