Are eBayers completely bonkers?????????

shelly

geordie_joe wrote: »

Why not, if a user searched for "NINTENDO DS LITE" some of them may assume(1) that the results it produced were for NINTENDO DS LITE for sale. They may then only look at the price and postage costs and not really read the description.(2) Never assume anything on ebay Buyers have to take responsibilty for their own carelessness, surely?

I've just done it and it came up with 1959 items in the Nintendo DS section alone. There must come a time when you have read so many descriptions that they all begin to sound the same and you stop taking notice of them and just check the price and postage. No way!! I know there are scammers out there and you have to read and re-read descriptions carefully.

I got conned by my landlord in June with just such a trick, so I know how easy it it.

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shelly

pdel61 wrote: »

This is a repeat of the DS Lite Box thread.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=636243

Except this one is much clearer

geordie_joe

shelly wrote: »

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Yes buyers have to take responsibilty for reading the descriptions, but that doesn't alter the fact the the seller could have been trying to scam them.

My point is, did the seller believe someone who wanted a reservation number for a nintendo at that particular branch of argos would bid on the item, or did they hope someone who wanted to buy a nintendo would bid on it..

I'm not disputing that the bidder is at fault fore not reading the description, but I am questioning the sellers intention.

Also, just because you know there are scammers out there it does not excuse, or justify people trying to scam you.

shelly

geordie_joe wrote: »

Also, just because you know there are scammers out there it does not excuse, or justify people trying to scam you.

Something we agree on

geordie_joe

slipp_digby wrote: »

eh? you wanted a room/house and your landlord sold you a link to where you could buy a DS lite?

the scumbag!

Yes, apparently he has done this before

No, what happened was I rented a flat for 10 years. It was on 6 months agreements and every six months I got a new agreement to sign. This year he decided to do up the flats and sell them. The building is divided into 4 block of six flats and in his plans my block was due to begin renovation just before xmass.

As it happens my agreement would run out on 22 December, fitting in nicely with his plans to have me out by xmas. He would simply not renew my agreement and out I would be.

He also knew that once I found out what he was planning to do I would look for somewhere else to live and leave before the contract was up. Therefore leaving him with an empty flat he would not be able to rent out, who would rent a flat for 2 or 3 months only?

So for the last tennancy agreement, which came in June, he slipped in a clause to say the agreement was a fixed term agreement and neither party could end it early.

I just signed it without bothering to read it, my fault I know. But I had lived there 9.5 years and had signed 19 agreements previously and they were all the same. I had no reason to think this one was any different, as at the time I didn't know of the landlords plans. Anyway, there are only so many times you can read a 62 clause tennancy agreement when they are all the same.

A few days later a neighbour knocked at my door and said "You'd better start looking for somewhere else to live, we're all getting kicked out at xmas"

It was then I looked closely at my agreement and noticed that one clause had changed for me being able to end the agreement with one months notice and the landlord being able to end it with two months notice to "Neither party can end the tennancy early"

What could I do, the CAB said I was tied into the agreement and couldn't get out of it. So did I wait until December and hope I found somewhere else to live, or did I start looking in July and take the first suitable place and have to pay rent on two places?

I know it was my fault for not checking the agreement, but I think the landlord changed it hoping I wouldn't bother to read it properly as I had had 19 of them in the previous 9.5 years.

In my mind he was pulling a fast one.

I also think the seller in this auction is doing something similar, hoping people will have looked at so many nintendo descriptions they stop noticing them. Again, this is the fault of the buyer if they don't read the description properly, but getting scammed because you failed to read something properly does not alter the fact that the seller set out to scam someone.

If you post an auction hoping someone will think it's for something different then that is a scam, even if it is the buyers fault for falling for it. You are still setting out hoping someone will bid on it thinking they are going to get something different from what they will get.

geordie_joe

shelly wrote: »

Something we agree on

Yes but we also agree that it is the buyers fault if they get fooled by this auction and bid thinking they are going to receive a nintendo ds.

My concern is did the seller post the auction thinking only people who wanted an argos reservation number would bid on it. Or did they hope someone would not read the description properly and bid thinking they were getting a nintendo ds?

If it was the former then fair play to them, if it was the latter then they are in the wrong.

M_Thomson

jeanette251978 wrote: »

I have come across this before LOL! but it did let me email them so fingers crossed!

How did you manage to do this? I thought as a poster mentioned above ebay now only allow you to contact somebody if you are involved in an auction with them.

geordie_joe

M_Thomson wrote: »

How did you manage to do this? I thought as a poster mentioned above ebay now only allow you to contact somebody if you are involved in an auction with them.

I think they do now, but when I sold on ebay I had a little program that allowed you to send an email to any ebay user. It used ebays own system and you had to tell it your username and password, but the program was so good I paid £29 for the full version and used it almost every day for years. One of the best bits of software I ever bought.

tigtag02

M_Thomson wrote: »

How did you manage to do this? I thought as a poster mentioned above ebay now only allow you to contact somebody if you are involved in an auction with them.

I emailed a high bidder at one point too!

dotchas

I have contacted ebayers with whom I am not involved in a transaction just recently with no problems