Suspended from eBay for 12 months! :( what can I do?

glossy123

If you yourself haven't been on the end of an NPB you probably don't realise how much damage they can do.

I put an item on auction and it sold very well - for £173 (there is another thread with all the details). Because of the NPB I had to relist.

The whole point is that circumstances for auctions are never exactly the same - you can do better, you can do worse - in my case I did not have the luxury to wait for a propitious time to list but had to get on with it and ended up with a sale price of £29 instead of £160 plus which I would have had from the other bidders without the NPB.

I would like some sort of real financial comeback against the NPB to meet the loss to which i was subjected because of their p***ing around.:mad:

Sellers are subjected to losses by Paypal without any discussion regardless of rights and wrongs, and it is about time that buyers were made to be more responsible (probably even the Clunking fist would agree in the light of the current credit crisis)

geordie_joe

glossy123 wrote: »

If you yourself haven't been on the end of an NPB you probably don't realise how much damage they can do.

Been on the wrong end of wquite a few NPBs

glossy123 wrote: »

I put an item on auction and it sold very well - for £173 (there is another thread with all the details). Because of the NPB I had to relist.

The whole point is that circumstances for auctions are never exactly the same - you can do better, you can do worse - in my case I did not have the luxury to wait for a propitious time to list but had to get on with it and ended up with a sale price of £29 instead of £160 plus which I would have had from the other bidders without the NPB.

I don't know the details, and haven't read the other thread, but it sounds to me like

1. You were selling something worth £30 and some drunk bid a lot more than it was worth, then sobered up and didn't pay for it.

2. You were selling something worth £170 and started the bidding too low and didn't have the sense to place a reserve on the auction.

I'm sorry to sound so hard, but after reading so many posts in here, by seller, who say if a buyer does something stupid then it's there own fault. By the same token, if you auctioned something worth £170 and started the bidding so low, or failed to place a reserve so somone won it for only £29 then that is your fault.

If the sellers in here can say buyers should shut up and pay for their mistakes then I think sellers should do the same.

Cheers up, it could be worse, you could have bid £80 on an argos reservation number that had expired, thining you were bidding on an actual nintendo, and had all the sellers in here telling you it's your own fault for being so stupid.

Life's a two way street, if buyers have to pay for their mistakes then so do sellers.

glossy123 wrote: »

I would like some sort of real financial comeback against the NPB to meet the loss to which i was subjected because of their p***ing around.:mad:

I would like to know what you were selling, and if it was actually worth £173.

I would also like to know why, after the first auction you didn't just offer the item to the second highest bidder. They probably bid £172 which is nearly as good as the winning bid.

Or did you relist it in hope it would get even higher bids?

glossy123 wrote: »

Sellers are subjected to losses by Paypal without any discussion regardless of rights and wrongs, and it is about time that buyers were made to be more responsible (probably even the Clunking fist would agree in the light of the current credit crisis)

Maybe, but a lot more buyers get ripped off than sellers. In my experience most buyers just want the item they paid for and don't try to rip of the seller.

geordie_joe

glossy123 wrote: »

I would like some sort of real financial comeback against the NPB to meet the loss to which i was subjected because of their p***ing around.:mad:

Forgot to ask, what exactly did you lose because the first buy didn't pay for the item?

Time2Go_25

There are as many bad sellers as there are buyers, it's just more people get worked up about NPBs as it's costs them a few pence.

The only people to blame for the problems are EBAY as they are the ones that set the rules to allow buyers and sellers to get away with it.

soolin

pdel61 wrote: »

There are as many bad sellers as there are buyers, it's just more people get worked up about NPBs as it's costs them a few pence.

The only people to blame for the problems are EBAY as they are the ones that set the rules to allow buyers and sellers to get away with it.

Um, I thought that was the whole point of this thread. Ebay did act when a buyer got too many NPB strikes and suspended that buyer..which many people would consider is the correct thing to do. I'm sure you are not suggesting that non payers should be allowed to get an infinite number of strikes and never get suspended?

Time2Go_25

soolin wrote: »

Um, I thought that was the whole point of this thread. Ebay did act when a buyer got too many NPB strikes and suspended that buyer..which many people would consider is the correct thing to do.

Indeed it is, but I trust you are not suggesting EBAY do all they can to remove scams, NPBs, problem sellers etc.

soolin wrote: »

I'm sure you are not suggesting that non payers should be allowed to get an infinite number of strikes and never get suspended?

Certainly not.

soolin

pdel61 wrote: »

Indeed it is, but I trust you are not suggesting EBAY do all they can to remove scams, NPBs, problem sellers etc.
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No but no one forces a buyer to buy so buyers themselves must take some responsibility for using common sense with who they buy from and how they pay and that in some ways protects them. However a seller is at the mercy of a bidder so we need ebay to have some sort of automatic process to weed out undesirable buyers, which the NPB strikes do.

To get banned for non payment isn't an easy thing, the buyer really has to make a habit of it.