can seller cancel purchase on ebay

Brynsam

bris wrote: »

Not strictly true. Ebay are a market place that bring buyers and sellers together for a fee. They have their own rules but these rules do not over write our own contract laws or consumer rights.


A breach of contract is still a breach of contract when buying and selling on Ebay.

Quite - but ebay has no interest in enforcing the contract as it makes clear!

esuhl

Brynsam wrote: »

Quite - but ebay has no interest in enforcing the contract as it makes clear!

That's why County Courts exist. Your legal rights are not affected by eBay's terms.

ballisticbrian

Exactly. I've heard that eBay won't help enforce your statutory rights (only your contractual rights), but you can still make a small claim in the County Court for things like "loss of bargain"... so long as your claim isn't judged to be "frivolous" (i.e. petty).

But it's all a moot point when the seller can click "dispatched" and then claim it was lost in the post as I stated in the first reply to this thread.

esuhl

ballisticbrian wrote: »

But it's all a moot point when the seller can click "dispatched" and then claim it was lost in the post as I stated in the first reply to this thread.

But that's moot, as they will still be liable for the breach of contract by not delivering the goods promised.

ballisticbrian

But that's moot, as they will still be liable for the breach of contract by not delivering the goods promised.

You are labouring a point, whereas I am telling how it is in practicality, for all we know the item cost £5.

esuhl

You are labouring a point, whereas I am telling how it is in law, for all we know the item cost £5000.

Brooker_Dave

It's always frustrating as a seller that every buyer from the highlands and islands and northern ireland makes out that I'm the first to have to charge them extra and that its never happened to them before...

iammumtoone

Yes they can. I had one a week or two ago, I won an item for a bargain. Next thing I know the seller cancelled stating 'item no longer available' I checked their listings a few days later and it was re-listed :mad:

Very annoying but nothing I could do about it. It seems to be the new way of selling, list the item at a low price to encourgae bidders and pay lower fees but if you don't get the price you want, just cancel the listing and start again :mad:

soolin

iammumtoone wrote: »

Yes they can. I had one a week or two ago, I won an item for a bargain. Next thing I know the seller cancelled stating 'item no longer available' I checked their listings a few days later and it was re-listed :mad:

Very annoying but nothing I could do about it. It seems to be the new way of selling, list the item at a low price to encourgae bidders and pay lower fees but if you don't get the price you want, just cancel the listing and start again :mad:

That assumes sellers don't care about poor feedback, and that buyers don't read seller feedback before they bid.

JustAnotherSaver

Hmm reading this i'd like to arm myself with a bit of knowledge before i jump back on eBay....

I've got a few things to sell. Most of which will go via Royal Mail, some of it will have to be courier. I'll take the measurements & get the prices.

But what if my buyer ends up being from one of these out of reach places that ends up costing more than 'the norm'? I'll end up in the same situation as the OP, albeit at the other end. Obviously i want to avoid that.

So what can you do as a seller?

Am i to look into these 'other areas' that cost more, get individual quotes for all of them, however many there are even though it's very likely the buyer wont be from these areas.

or

do i just put in my listing that i don't post to certain areas, again whatever these certain areas may be?