Vent: eBay buyers

soolin

The thing is though you may have decided to insist on cash, but you cannot enforce it. The buyer has as much right to use paypal as you do to try to avoid accepting it.

I completely agree that paypal on collection is a poor idea but if you sell on ebay then you run the risk of buyers choosing to protect themselves by using it. If th eitem is a highly scamme done and you don't want these problems, then maybe try Gumtree or one of the local sites that allow you to choose your own payment methods.

No one can force you to sell, never forget that. However if you refund a paypal payment then that's it, no chance of getting your FVFs back if buyer refuses to pay cash and you run the risk of a neg. You need to balance all this out before choosing ebay to sell on.

MamaMoo_2

soolin wrote: »

The thing is though you may have decided to insist on cash, but you cannot enforce it. The buyer has as much right to use paypal as you do to try to avoid accepting it.

I completely agree that paypal on collection is a poor idea but if you sell on ebay then you run the risk of buyers choosing to protect themselves by using it. If th eitem is a highly scamme done and you don't want these problems, then maybe try Gumtree or one of the local sites that allow you to choose your own payment methods.

No one can force you to sell, never forget that. However if you refund a paypal payment then that's it, no chance of getting your FVFs back if buyer refuses to pay cash and you run the risk of a neg. You need to balance all this out before choosing ebay to sell on.

My issue is, why buy an item and try and pay PayPal when it's clearly stated that I won't accept it? Where's the point?
It's a fairly low value item (<£50), definitely not something scammable. As it's also a collection only item, it also allows the buyer to inspect prior to payment anyway.
I'm done with eBay now anyway. I often sell on Gumtree, but decided to try eBay for a couple of items that don't really have much of a place on there. (They'd end up in a misc category and end up falling off the first few pages quickly)

fin7

A few years ago I sold a bike my daughter had outgrown. I put collection only, I was surprised to discover the buyer that won the bike lived hundreds of miles away. I was thinking that this was going to get interesting when I got an email off him, turned out he was a long distance lorry driver and would be in the area on a certain day.

Never know, your buyer may well be the same, just a thought.


Fin:)

MamaMoo_2

fin7 wrote: »

A few years ago I sold a bike my daughter had outgrown. I put collection only, I was surprised to discover the buyer that won the bike lived hundreds of miles away. I was thinking that this was going to get interesting when I got an email off him, turned out he was a long distance lorry driver and would be in the area on a certain day.

Never know, your buyer may well be the same, just a thought.


Fin:)

Here's hoping!
I know my dad had a listing before where he offered a whole set of kitchen cupboard doors for sale. The woman that bought them was in Scotland, but was coming down to visit her family.
The buyer has a fair feedback count, and no negs, so we'll have to wait and see

tattycath

I sold some stuff a few months ago local pick up only. The person who won the auction was 4 hours away. They did arrange to pick up the item and paid cash on collection too.

morganedge

I'm going through a 'case' at the moment where the stupid buyer didn't read the listing correctly. First time I've had to do the whole online message process in the dispute centre though!
Do ebay actually read the messages to decided who they are in favour of, because this person (who clearly didn't read the description) just keeps replying to my explanations with what I think are 'emoticons', like: ;.)

Smi1er

Nothing stranger than some ebay folk.

I sold some kitchen white goods that were 18 months old. When the auction was won at far more than I hoped to get, by someone who lived 200 miloes away I sighed..... another ebay loser I thought.

Not so. One Saturday morning they drove all the way down to me, 3 hours and 200 miles. I gave them a hand loading the item up, gave them a cup of tea and waved them goodbye. I didn't have the heart to tell them they could of bought the item brand new, delivered to them for all of £44 more.

Money-Saving-King

soolin wrote: »

The thing is though you may have decided to insist on cash, but you cannot enforce it. The buyer has as much right to use paypal as you do to try to avoid accepting it.

I completely agree that paypal on collection is a poor idea but if you sell on ebay then you run the risk of buyers choosing to protect themselves by using it. If th eitem is a highly scamme done and you don't want these problems, then maybe try Gumtree or one of the local sites that allow you to choose your own payment methods.

With people who pay via Paypal for local pick up items why not type your own proof of them receiving it up on a computer and get them to sign it.

tattycath

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

With people who pay via Paypal for local pick up items why not type your own proof of them receiving it up on a computer and get them to sign it.

There is nothing to stop you from doing that but it's a complete waste of time and effort as ebay don't recognise it as proof of delivery.

Money-Saving-King

tattycath wrote: »

There is nothing to stop you from doing that but it's a complete waste of time and effort as ebay don't recognise it as proof of delivery.

But then could you not go to the small claims court to recover the costs. Paypal's policies aren't law.