your funniest ebay experience

Sssssss

I wanted to say 'p1ss take' in the title but wasn't sure if it would be allowed

anyways, there's been some good posts on here and seems to be a lot of experience about ebay

so I was wondering what's your funniest story or biggest p1ss take when selling or buying on ebay

I had one buyer wanted the goods before he paid as he'd had some bad experience on ebay in the past! but I'm sure you guys have much better stories so let's hear them.

StaffsSW

Buyer wins an auction, pays by Paypal, and then immediately leaves me feedback?!!

Also taken a load of grief of two buyers over postage - one was upset that they had to go to the Post office to collect the item as it would not fit through their letter box, and asked me to refund the cost of their bus fare.

The other asked if I could use second class post, because the first class came too early in the morning and as they worked nights they needed sleep.

I think all three wear slip-on shoes....

matthewking26

My experience probably ranks as a great one for me but a poor one for the seller.
It was back when I was a student a few years ago. I saw a seller with 0 feedback who'd listed "The Simpsons Season 1 - 14 and the Tracey Ullman Show Shorts", start price £2. I thought that an amazing bargain so bid £2. Amazingly nobody else bid so I got them for £2. The seller had feedback of 0 so might have been why nobody else bid. The seller charged £5 postage so off went my paypal payment of £7.
When they arrived they were on 96 discs and had cost £8.50 to post.
So on my payment of £7 the seller had lost £1.50 plus the ebay fees, plus the original costs of the discs.
Looking back I kind of feel guilty but it certainly taught me a lesson, which is always weigh your items before you tell people how much postage will cost!
I hope the seller went on to earn a fortune on later items! And I've still got all those episodes which have had a lot of use over the years, probably my best ever ebay bargain!

alanalea

I've had a bidder win my camper and then then email to ask if I could drive it over to Spain because he was too busy to collect. He'd pay the petrol money :rolleyes:

Baby_J_2

alanalea wrote: »

I've had a bidder win my camper and then then email to ask if I could drive it over to Spain because he was too busy to collect. He'd pay the petrol money :rolleyes:

LOL, did the bidder pick it up in the end?!

I once purchased an album, it was new in the charts and I ended up winning it for £6.00 as the seller was very new to eBay and had low feedback. Anyway, paid via PayPal, the CD arrived in a couple of days, we both left each other feedback but the seller never claimed the money from PayPal, so it was returned to me after 30 days.

alanalea

Baby_J wrote: »

LOL, did the bidder pick it up in the end?!

Nope he was the first of 3 NPB's I issued on that camper- I swear it was jinxed . Still I made a tidy profit after using it for 2 years :j

charlottevwa

I once bought a samsung bluetooth headset from china, for about £20? a week after a i purchased it, the seller became NARU, so I opened a paypal dispure to say not received, he then sent me a refund for my money, a couple of days later... the headset arrived... so i had money and a headset! He obviously had no track of who he had sent them out too etc.... I felt a little bad, but he was a big seller, and was his fault for getting too many strikes (or similar) and becoming NARU

FloFlo

I was asked if I would wear the new underwear set I was selling and send it unlaundered!

speranza

FloFlo wrote: »

I was asked if I would wear the new underwear set I was selling and send it unlaundered!

Have to ask...did you?!

wileycat

The £160 ish, thats in my paypal account for my iPod I sold and paypal won't let me refund it to the buyer...and he seems not interested in it now (so obviously a scammer) and Paypal don't seem interested in it either.

shelly

Biggest p1ss take hubby had was in his early days of buying. He bought a swingarm for his motorbike that was listed as "in perfect condition". When it arrived it had very obviously been in a far worse accident than the one hubby was replacing had been in. When he complained about it the seller said "the postman must have damaged it" :rolleyes: Hubby said that unless the postie unwrapped it, put it on a bike and then crashed it he didn't think so. Seller got very aggressive. We put it down to experience and left neg feedback.
It wouldn't happen now as we would file a dispute for item not as described but in the early days we weren't aware you could.