your funniest ebay experience

musemad

Well just for a laugh when the news story about the Blue peter badges being sold on ebay for cash broke I made an ad out a bit like this-
Hello you are bidding on not a blue peter badge because I have never won one and don't have one for sale.
I started to answer questions in the funniest ways I could as they flooded in on my 24 hour listing.
Ebay eventually ended my ad after a complaint - but it did get 10, 000 hits in six hours!

Sallys_Savings

bathgatebuyer wrote: »

Colleague of mine bought a toy car for her son on Ebay. Thought, "That's really cheap for postage" but could see him pedalling around the garden in it, and thought it really worth payign quite a bit of cash for.

Anyhow, the card turned up for her to collect it from the PO. So, she emptied the boot, told her son that they were going to get his toy cart for the back garden..............................then the guy in the sorting office brought out a tiny wee package. Yup, she'd bought one for a doll's house!!! In retrospect if you look at the picture of the item on ebay, you can actually see that the skirting board is bigger than it!!

Another mate of mine bought a lovely pair of size 7 adidas trainers. 'cept they were a child's size 7!

I sold a dolls little tikes car and picnic bench like this too lol
I had actually taken the photos on my wooden garden bench (and it was really obvious on the photo) and wrote in the description/title dolls ....yet the buyer insisted that I had mislaid her in some way.

Labman_2

Sallys_Savings wrote: »

....yet the buyer insisted that I had mislaid her in some way.

....no wonder she was disappointed!:D

wolvesinwales

I listed an exercise bike and someone bid on it then sent the following question :

Hi i am the highest bidder, do i have to wait for the auction to end or can i collect it tonight ?

I once posted a mobile phone which got lost in post and amongst the ongoing correspondence came this gem :

lets sue the thieving bast*** postman and get a chicken for xmas out of it.

My girlfriend sold some headphones and the person decided to collect them and e mailed and asked for details of the local bus times.

charlottevwa

wolvesinwales wrote: »

I listed an exercise bike and someone bid on it then sent the following question :

Hi i am the highest bidder, do i have to wait for the auction to end or can i collect it tonight ?

I once posted a mobile phone which got lost in post and amongst the ongoing correspondence came this gem :

lets sue the thieving bast*** postman and get a chicken for xmas out of it.

My girlfriend sold some headphones and the person decided to collect them and e mailed and asked for details of the local bus times.

lol, love them :rotfl:

doraexplorer

i love this thread there has to be loads more stories than this . i only have one .

i buy from ebay dont sell, i bought a set of books from WW1 for my boyf for
xmas and was really chuffed to get something different. when i was at work the seller phoned and told my boyf that he had posted them that day and hoped he would lke them. there went my surprise.

sellar also phoned to see i got them ok and just for the record i paid 20 quid for a pile of magazines that my boyf said were too old and manky to read.

tifnstav

i was reading this thread today and can now add my own experience!
sold a tshirt on ebay, listed it three times, was about to jumble sale it when all of a sudden it sold for nearly £15! well chuffed.
well, the monkey brain who bid on it has now left me a neutral (i know its not a neg but still!) because it was too small for HIM and he had to give it to his girlfriend!
It was listed in the women's clothing section and i even said that i thought the label was wrong and so I gave the measurements from underarm to underarm, which were 18 1/2 inches!
so it would be snug on a bird with a 38" bust really, never mind a bloke.
do people not read?
i think i'll stick to grubby footwear!

Anthillmob

Baby_J wrote: »

OMG! LOL, this happened to me! After I was pregnant, I was selling some of my maternity stuff and the underwear I was selling I had never worn. However, the "potential" buyer emailed me and asked if it would be possible to wear them before I sent them should he win the bid. i emailed back and asked why and he said, and I quote "Because I like things that have been close to a lady" :eek:

I actually made me feel sick at the time!

ive often thought of buying a shedload of cheap knickers in primark, getting my dog to wear them, perhaps pick his crap up with them and then list them. but i understand you cant do this on ebay can you? id make a mint!

tsharp

Advertise some pants as new/unused, you'll probably get pervs asking if they have been worn, tell them they have, sell them. They're hardly likely to lodge a complaint with ebay along the lines of 'i bought some pants on the understanding they were soiled, and was disappointed to find they were clean and unused. Please can i have my money back?'

charlottevwa

This isn't exactly funny, more odd really!.....

I sold a top to an ebayer for about £10-15, and after a few days she said it hadn't arrived, so I told her to give t a few more days, and if it still hasn't turned up to let me know.... anyways needless to say.. she never got back to me..

3 months later, the top turned up on my doorstep... It had been sat at her local sorting office as it wouldnt fit through her letterbox, and the sorting office had returned it to me cause she didn't collect.

As it had been so long, I couldnt find her details anywhere on ebay, or remember her ebay name, so there was no way of contacting her, and the top is sitll sat in my wardrobe now!

I'm guessing the reason for this was either:
a) the postman forgot to pop a card through her door to say she has a parcel waiting
or
b) She couldnt be bothered to go sorting office, so that's why she never contacted me


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