Is anyone buying and selling less on ebay.

silkyuk9

My last few buys from ebay have not been very successful, i have bought an item that turned outr to be fake and an item that was not good as the description said.

i got my money back for the fake item after sending it back but lost over £16 on postage costs, the seller did not refund postage costs. The other item i won i had to put up a dispute with paypal and i won, but i sold an item i had before i received the item i won (the item i won was similar to one i owned but better for me, so i sold the item i had before i received the winning item) in the end i had to keep the winning item as i coud not find one to replace it, my dispute time ran out.

On ebay (so i have been told by a manufactorer) up to 70% of items are counterfeit or fake, so it has given me bad vibes about buying anything that is expensive, i guess this includes:

sports equipment
jewellery
sports trainers and shoes
glassware
jeans
sports tops
designer clothes
watches
car parts
paintings
womens accessories, bags etc
dvd's
ps2 games
cd's

all over the above iems are counterfeitable and not easily detected to the untrained eye.

Also the 2 items i have mentioned i have not left any feedback because i will get some myself. the counterfeit item i sent back to the seller will be back on ebay at some time to the cost of over £100 to the next buyer.

I think i have had my fill now with ebay, the days of honest buying and selling are over.

Ebay has become a monster creation and only the creator can kill it.

steviebabes

The trouble with ebay these days is that there are too many wheeler dealer types. They started selling their junk/excess household items, saw the money roll in then started to look for things to sell. Registered businesses who also sell on ebay would soon be closed down if they sold fake/shoddy goods. This is why ebay are changing the game rules.

frivolous_fay

You could have saved yourself the £16. You're not obliged to send counterfeit items back to the seller.

motorguy

Buying any of those items off ebay is no more secure than buying them off 'some bloke down the pub', yet people seem to think that if someone has 23 +ve feedback, that makes them trustworthy.

How many times now do you hear of people building up the feedback with very low priced sales, then suddenly they're selling 20 Sony Vaios, and ten 40 inch TV's, yet people fall for it every time.

There are so many cheap established companies on the internet, i'd struggle to think of everyday purchases that i'd make on ebay anymore. I had a run of good luck with cheap chargers for various family mobiles, ipods etc, but the most recent one for my blackberry quit last week, so i wont be buying those on ebay either.

I do buy laptop spares for my company on there though - stuff like keyboards, inverters, etc, but only because i cant find another good source.

Otherwise i'm pretty sick of ebay. Especially now the feedback rules are changing in the buyers favour totally.

ormus

anyone who thinks a pr of new nike trainers for 20 quid or a new copy of MS Office for 19 quid, is the real thing, then they need to see a doctor.

as for buying items such as jewellery, they must be braver than me.
most cd/dvd,s are a quid. so what if they are fake?

i cant believe how many peeps leave their brains in the toilet, when they log on to ebay.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

I have bought loads of jewellery from ebay.com and have had not one bit of trouble with any of it - gold, silver, pearls, etc. Some I have had valued at our local jeweller to find that they are worth four/five times what I paid for them. I have had no problems there.

Along with clothes, cd's, DVD's, books, bags etc.

I can honestly say that, on the whole, my experience with ebay.co.uk and ebay.com have been positive. Yes I have had to have had refunds on items which have never arrived but that is partly down to the postal service.

Always read the feedback and see what the quality of the goods are before you place a bid on anything. If the feedback is dodgy then don't buy from them - that is why feedback is there.

Lou3000

I have been a member of ebay since 2004 and have never encountered any real problems. However, I started selling (not a shop just the occasional listings) and in the beginning I made a few bob. Nothing outrageous, just enough to think it was worthwhile popping stuff onto ebay when decluttering - and those were the days when we used bog-standard photos and before all the fancy stuff we can now use with Auctiva etc.

However, in 2007 I think I sold two items - both for 99p - and the rest just kept getting passed by. I don't know why. The goods I was selling were either new/second hand (though nearly new) clothes with the occasional makeup items and electrical goods I'd received free when ordering from catalogues etc.

Nada. Not a thing. I was even careful not to list the items until a long while after they'd been offered as free gifts with the catalogues as of course the ebay market would be flooded with them.

I do everything I can to list my items in an attractive way. I don't ask for rip-off p&P, I have 100 per cent feedback of over 400 items.

Now it's costing me money to list (you only get your initial listing fee back if you re-list then manage to sell an item) so I haven't bothered since last Autumn.

I would love to get rid of all the stuff I've accumulated to 'sell on ebay' but where I live, we don't even have any regular car boot sales and anyway, I work on Saturdays & Sundays. But that looks like the only way I'll manage it so I'll have to hope a car boot/table sale comes up in the spring and, hopefully, book a day's holiday and, hopefully, get rid of the stuff. I'd even give it to a charity shop but our nearest one is 100 miles away

Little_Chicken

I've been ebaying since 1999 and have had a couple of bad experiences, but nothing major. I agree that sometimes things just wont sell. But equally I've sold used handbags for more than I originally paid for them in the shops. Ebay is just weird like that!!!

webbie

I seemed to browse along quite nicely and have got up to 1400 transactions with very little hassle.

Then I offered to help a relative clear their large unwanted items (all very expensive and immaculate) - and it became silly season!! People 200 miles away win items and then claim they "have no transport" when it's clearly collection only!!

Latest toady was a settee won by a guy in Taiwan!! Might stick to the local ads again.

lucid2008

Beware that there is a high amount of fake goods on ebay including sportswear,shoes,tvs,dvds,mobile phones,sat navs and many more items.Most are mainly imported from china.
Mainly cosmetic near perfect copies with vastly inferior parts inside.

bathgatebuyer

The good experiences I've had way exceed the bad, although I do think it's much harder now to get a bargain than previously. I do like buying clothes and other eccentricities from the States (political and academic memorobilia) which I've not been disappointed in yet. Did have bad feedback left once by someone who insisted I'd never paid for something by Paypal even though I sent him details of the payment reference and the time and date it was paid for. He got crazier and crazier as the emails went on before issuing an apology. I can only liken him to Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down.

The good far outweight the bad though.