Someone else has listed something that's mine!

soolin

earthstorm wrote: »

i would watch his feedback and if the so called buy leaves good feedback about getting the item, report him to eBay as you know he has never had the item to sell, so how could he have a buyer to leave positive feedback on something hes not sold

That isn't what is going on here.

This is basically just someone trying to sell something based on the premis that they can then rush and buy it if it sells.

I know several people who use that as a business model, I don't think it is ideal and I wouldn't risk it myself but it means they can try a high end item on ebay without risking the original cash to buy it. If they get a bid they go and buy the item, if ti is no longer there they apologise to bidder, pull the bid and cancel the listing.

If they get a bid too late to cancel then they risk a very unhappy buyer !
If it doesn't sell all they have lost is the listing fee.

hollydays

Every time I deal with companies who sell on a commission I find they rip me off, ie sell for one price while telling me they've sold for another. In all cases I've suspected eg they don't put a price on my item straightaway. Or variations of this.saying that, majority of these have closed down.

hollydays

thriftwizard wrote: »

Doubt he'd have done it! He has now ended the auction - oddly by dropping the price to £1 and presumably getting a friend to "buy" it - and sent me a pretty rude message telling me to get a grip, he's only trying to sell it for me! Missing the point completely...

Get someone to buy an item from him, request contact details , get his address, tell the warehouse, cancel transaction.

ballisticbrian

Just to point out that he is in breach of the eBay user agreement by not having ownership of the item he is selling. So in view of that, I don't think his method operandi could be called a legitimate business model.

thriftwizard

The warehouse are aware & have banned him - apparently he was a trader there a while back, but didn't do very well. I can see why...

But why can't I tell Ebay?

ETA: ballisticbrain, I sometimes sell things on behalf of people who have no Ebay account or even no computer, usually because they're elderly. I always make it plain when I'm doing so, and would never dream of selling anything belonging to someone else without being asked to. How I found out about this was listing another of said item on behalf of a widower, 100% for charity (sold within two hours, price more than he'd dared to think or could have got locally, buyer's got a real bargain that she's collecting from me at the weekend) then saw my own one come up underneath it. So there is leeway for selling items that don't belong to you, and rightly so. But the little matter of knowledge & consent does - or should - matter rather a lot, IMHO!

ballisticbrian

This is part of the policy, although not the bit I was looking for, I think there is also a bit more specifically about selling other ebay sellers stuff.

Product availability

When buyers bid on or purchase an item on eBay, they should feel confident that the item is available and will be delivered in a timely matter.
What to do
You must make sure the items you’re offering are in stock for the duration of the listing and are delivered to the buyer, unless the buyer doesn't meet the terms of your listing.
For multi-quantity listings, make sure you have ready access to all the items you’re offering. For pre-sales-listings, make sure you'll have ready access to all items on the release date.
If you run into an inventory problem that's beyond your control, you're responsible for letting the buyer know when the item will be available or issuing a refund immediately for the full amount.
What not to do

You must not:

• List an item that may be out of stock by the time of purchase
  
• List an item that you're simultaneously selling outside of eBay
  
• Offer an item that may not be what's delivered to the buyer
  
• Offer an inflated number of items in a multi-quantity listing
  

pinkshoes

I wouldn't have contacted him.

I would have just bid in the last minute, then upped the price of the item in the shop to 20% more than you won it for, and see what he'd do!

patman99

Ebay do have rules, but everyone gets round them.
I sell memory cards on ebay. They get dropshipped from China.
I also sell the same cards on ebid & Amazon. As I am sensible enough to use different ID's for each site, none of them will link the chain together.

justapoorboy

Ebay do have rules but they don't even bother to look sellers who break them let alone enforce them.

I don't know in what way you are breaking the rules patman99 but do you really think you should be boasting about it ?

thriftwizard sounds to me like your item is underpriced + specialist enough that it would benefit from worldwide exposure which online selling can bring.

cazpumpkin

I would double the price and paint "some mug bought me off ebay" across the piece of furniture and wait for him to come and buy it and gather a group of friends to laugh at his reaction, then he knows he is rumbled and wont bother you again,