Advice needed - Seller does not accept paypal and never sold anything before!!

RickHoughton

siver wrote: »

Maybe send him an e-mail saying you'll come round and pick it up for cash, and see how he reacts, if it's dodgey, he's going to be reluctant to give you his address.

Good luck!

Why would he be reluctant to give his address when he needs to give it out for the cheque to be sent? ::rotfl:

blue_monkey_2

Ah, never never buy DVD's off eBay!! I have bought 2 and been stung both times, never accept a stock picture of the item and do not accept feedback as most people (myself included) do not leave feedback for fear of a retaliatory neg.

If stock pictures are shown then you'll probably get pirated copies - that is what I got - or some cheap import. Ebay is not the place to buy DVD's these days unless it is from someone who is seller other items (ie. obviosuly their own collection rather than a DVD 'trader').

Mail him and tell him that a friend is in the area on business and can he collect for you and pay in cash, if he says no then do not pay. Risk the neg and do not lose your £75. The other option is a bankers draft because at least you can then give details to the police if you do get sticthed up. Likewise with a cheque, when it is cashed, go to the bank and get a copy of the back so you can find out where it has gone and give this to the police as well.

As I said, never buy DVD's from eBay as you can't really be sure what you are buying, mine was not even cheap and I got some cheap Chinese Import and the user was selling to make it look like it was a personal collection and had good feedback. Not one mention of a copy listed!! I even came on here for advice and asked 'is this real' and other MSE'rs agreed that it was a legit Disney DVD so I went for it and bought it. It wasn't and I was gutted. Last time that I'll ever buy a DVD from eBay. Pay the extra money and get it from a shop or from Amazon as at least you'll have some comeback (i am sure Amazon are legit unless someone will correct me on this) by paying with your credit card.

Just risk the neg and save your money. Of course, he could have bought them for himself, burned them and is them selling them on again - always a thought but, with his user name I think it unlikely myself. You could report as selling fake's so that the listing so it gets pulled in a few days and then you won't have to pay at all!!

blue_monkey_2

He could be getting the payment banked via a 3rd party - the 3rd party might not know that he was selling something dodgy and then the comeback would be on the person receiving the money. I would be wary with anything like this. You could mail others who have bought from him and ask if they have received their goods yet.

I would sit it out and wait and risk the neg, it'll take him a few weeks to get it sorted and then file FVF - if he knows how to do this of course!!

Time2Go_25

blue_monkey wrote: »

do not accept feedback as most people (myself included) do not leave feedback for fear of a retaliatory neg.

and this is why it is hard to judge what sort of people you are doing business with.

frivolous_fay

I don't know the value of what you're buying, but if I had good reason to believe it would be a fake (by the price) I'd not pay, and take a strike.




But before anyone goes on at me for breaking rules... just like to make it clear that I wouldn't have bid on anything that looked to good to be true!

greenstreetprince

i really dont see why you are fretting over this now rather than not reading the listing properly prior to placing a bid, the way i see this is:

1) OP placed a bid without reading the item description fully

2) OP hasn't sent payment and is in the wrong

i never thought i'd say this, but i'm with dave brooker on this one, you placed a bid, you won, you should pay up

look at it from sellers point of view, your new to ebay, still learning the ropes, and now you've got this buyer suggesting you open a paypal account (something you may not have properly heard of) rather than paying with the methods you offered when you listed.

frivolous_fay

greenstreetprince wrote: »

i really dont see why you are fretting over this now rather than not reading the listing properly prior to placing a bid, the way i see this is:

1) OP placed a bid without reading the item description fully

2) OP hasn't sent payment and is in the wrong

Normally I'd agree, but I just hate giving money to bootleggers.

blue_monkey_2

and this is why it is hard to judge what sort of people you are doing business with.

I agree with you entirely and this is why you can never tell who you are buying from these days. Why should I screw up my good feedback because of some loser seller. If I had bought with my personal name rather than my business name then I would have happily left a neg - however, stupidly I did not and I did not want a bad mark left against my business name for something I bought.

How many other people don't leave a neg for the same reason - way too many - and this is why we end up with crappy sellers on eBay. As I said, I never buy anything that I am sure is not genuine. And there are lots of good business traders using eBay as a selling platform because of the audience it gets but the rubbish sellers ruin it for everyone else - I would not buy something that could be a copy.

Someone else metioned that before eBay they used to buy items without them being seen and that they paid by cheque but this was before items could be copied so easily and before there were so many conmen using the internet for scamming people. Sure, it was never perfect I am sure (I am too young to know what happened before eBay and the Internet I guess) but the internet seems to have turned lots of people into criminals and eBay makes it easy for them to scam people and get money off them with no comeback.

greenstreetprince

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Normally I'd agree, but I just hate giving money to bootleggers.

but we dont know for sure if it is bootlegged, everyone starts somewhere, just becuase this chap is new isn't a reason we should be suspecting him

its not as though seller offered a really cheap buy-it-now price, OP placed winning bid, so final price was not in sellers control

frivolous_fay

greenstreetprince wrote: »

but we dont know for sure if it is bootlegged, everyone starts somewhere, just becuase this chap is new isn't a reason we should be suspecting him

its not as though seller offered a really cheap buy-it-now price, OP placed winning bid, so final price was not in sellers control

I'm taking the 'how can he possibly sell it so cheap' posts as an indication that they're fakes - I wouldn't renege on a bid just because a seller's new.