Sold £299 ebay item for £1.04. Shock!

savvy

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

I'm back. Sorry so many of you are doubting my genuine story.

Here's the latest!

I made the buyer an offer to deliver, not for £25 as someone suggested but for just £20. It is a 60-mile round trip.

Got a reply that he doesn't like my terms and will be coming to collect.

Well surely now he's paid by Paypal and not cash on collection as you requested, you can say you don't like his terms and won't be selling

Or at least build a case if he puts in neg or complaint. He refused your delivery option and ignored your request for cash on collection - he's starting to look worse than you

soolin

savvy wrote: »

Well surely now he's paid by Paypal and not cash on collection as you requested, you can say you don't like his terms and won't be selling

Or at least build a case if he puts in neg or complaint. He refused your delivery option and ignored your request for cash on collection - he's starting to look worse than you

It is worth remembering that the auction would have clearly shown that paypal was accepted as no seller can refuse a paypal payment. A sellers personal terms cannot over ride those of ebay. I also do not see why a buyer refusing to pay for personal delivery also makes them worse than the OP, none of us know the personal circumstances of the buyer, perhaps their mother lives in the next street, noone can be forced to pay for delivery if they don't want it, however kind the offer.

This is not building up a case for the seller if it gets nasty, it is the buyer who has built up a case for ebay to consider a selelr non performance strike as buyer pays using paypal and seller refuses it and refuses to sell. This is a route best left alone.

Obviously no one can insist OP sells, but OP needs to consider whether a neg, poor stars and a non performing seller warning strike on the expanded dashboard is something his account can cope with, and only OP knows that.

This is also not just a simple case of an error, an error would be listing this as a BIN for 99p instead of an auction and then realising only when it was sold. This thread suggests that OP listed at 99p and attracted only 2 bidders, one of whom considered the item only worth 99p (the opening bid), that suggests the value put on the item of £299 was wrong.

Martin_Knott-Lewis

hermum wrote: »

Shame he didn't buy a car rather than a swimming pool

Hermum,

I don't understand your comment. I didn't sell a swimming pool, only an item of furniture.

What I was saying was as I was going to deliver, I looked up the address on google maps. But £20 was too much money for my buyer for the 60-mile round trip. S I wondered if money was that tight for him, worse than us even.:o

Finally, yesterday my curiousity got the better of me.....I began to wonder what kind of person rejects an offer of a reasonable delivery charge. And trawls Ebay for bargain basement buys only.

So I looked at his address on google satellite and on street view.

Here's the shock I got!

His address is a large detached house with a double garage, 3 cars in the drive, a swimming pool in the garden and it must be an upmarket area because a fair number of the neighbouring houses also have swimming pools.

So a wealthy person then.....

soolin

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

Her

So a wealthy person then.....

Exactly. How do you think he got wealthy, by being clever and spotting bargains or dealing well in life.

You undervalued your item, he has spotted potential and has bought it. I do it all the time as do many on here. I buy from ebay and resell by adding something extra to one of the lines i buy. It is common business practice.

hermum

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

Hermum,

I don't understand your comment. I didn't sell a swimming pool, only an item of furniture.

What I was saying was as I was going to deliver, I looked up the address on google maps. But £20 was too much money for my buyer for the 60-mile round trip. S I wondered if money was that tight for him, worse than us even.:o

Finally, yesterday my curiousity got the better of me.....I began to wonder what kind of person rejects an offer of a reasonable delivery charge. And trawls Ebay for bargain basement buys only.

So I looked at his address on google satellite and on street view.

Here's the shock I got!

His address is a large detached house with a double garage, 3 cars in the drive, a swimming pool in the garden and it must be an upmarket area because a fair number of the neighbouring houses also have swimming pools.

So a wealthy person then.....

I got your thread & another confused, easy for me to do. The other one was a collection item where the buyer didn't have transport to get to collect, hence the, shame he didn't buy a car rather than a swimming pool.
I was confused & like company.

savvy

soolin wrote: »

This is not building up a case for the seller if it gets nasty, it is the buyer who has built up a case for ebay to consider a selelr non performance strike as buyer pays using paypal and seller refuses it and refuses to sell. This is a route best left alone.

LOL! I don't know much about Ebay as I have a love hate relationship with it so wouldn't dream of commenting on what somebody should do on there, therefore my comment was rather tongue in cheek hence the giant grin smilies to try and cheer the OP up a bit cos I feel very sorry for him, as I still do the one I had to visit this week

Brooker_Dave

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

What I was saying was as I was going to deliver, I looked up the address on google maps. But £20 was too much money for my buyer for the 60-mile round trip. S I wondered if money was that tight for him, worse than us even.:o

Just refund the paypal payment, and cancel the sale.

And in future only list things at the minimum amount you'd accept, or just buy stuff on ebay and sell stuff through Gumtree or the local classifieds.

pendulum

Martin_Knott-Lewis wrote: »

His address is a large detached house with a double garage, 3 cars in the drive, a swimming pool in the garden and it must be an upmarket area because a fair number of the neighbouring houses also have swimming pools.

Jealous much?

With all that money, he might haul your !!! to Court on principle if you cancel the sale!

Spook4King

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.

soolin

spook4king- I think you need to understand how auctions work and stop worrying that ebay are encouraging snipers to bid low. If your stuff doesn't sell for as much as other peoples items, then your listings, your terms or your feedback is putting them off.