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To Shill or not to shill ?

cyberpig_2
cyberpig_2 Posts: 445 Forumite
in Ebay, auctions, car boot sales, post & parcels
Well what do you reckon ?


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Truth be told the seller had missed out saying "bad taste bears" in his title - and nobody was bidding !
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  • bribrian
    bribrian Posts: 1,498 Forumite
    Aaaahhh, bless him, he didn't want to let them go......
    What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about !!!
  • COS
    COS Posts: 550 Forumite
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    Why or how can Paypal / ebay justify their actions. Three times I have been ripped off by this company after providing proof of postage they have favoured the buyer when the item did not arrive losing me over £200.00 in all. So everything has to be inssured now as a receipt from the Royal Mail is no good.
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  • soolin
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    COS wrote:
    Why or how can Paypal / ebay justify their actions. Three times I have been ripped off by this company after providing proof of postage they have favoured the buyer when the item did not arrive losing me over £200.00 in all. So everything has to be inssured now as a receipt from the Royal Mail is no good.

    Proof of posting is not good enough to stop a chargeback, only proof of receipt.

    So you either need to send your items Recorded delivery or special delivery, or, as I do, send them ordinary mail but retain a COP. The COP will not stop a chargeback but it enables me to reclaim from the post office so that I am not out of pocket if I ever have to refund a buyer for non receipt.

    If using paypal, and indeed ebay, it is well worth knowing what you sign up for before you accept the terms and conditions. Refusing a buyer a refund for non delivery and allowing it to escalate to a chargeback is not good, always try to sort things out before it comes to that.

    Soo
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  • soolin
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    cyberpig wrote:
    Well what do you reckon ?


    LOOK


    Truth be told the seller had missed out saying "bad taste bears" in his title - and nobody was bidding !

    Yes his searchable titles do need some work don't they? selling something and completely forgetting to put what they are in the title is a bit extreme.

    Having said that if the bidder on most of them is a shiller he is a very poor one, he is currently winning virtually all the auctions, which will leave the seller with some huge FVFs. I htink if he is a shiller then someone needs to tell him that the idea is *not* to win.

    The only thing against it being shilling is that the bidder has also bid on other bad taste bears from a different seller, so maybe he is a mad keen collector?

    Soo
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  • liz_uk
    liz_uk Posts: 1,103 Forumite
    My goodness, thats a bag case of shilling !

    Oh how I wish I had a throw away ID !
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  • Mr_Proctalgia
    Mr_Proctalgia Posts: 967 Forumite
    The plot might be thickening a bit now Look at this items questions
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  • cyberpig_2
    cyberpig_2 Posts: 445 Forumite
    LOL - I have been watching these items for the past 24 hrs - funny thing is, is that yesterday the suspicious bidder had only bumbed up the higher value bears - last night he bumped up every single other one - there were at least 20 with no bids - and due to bad listing, very few hits !
  • soolin
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    What on earth does the response mean, this bit in particular "

    i was concerned about the user robertgisby myself who did ask to buy all items question posted on fewkes i believe. "

    Hmm, I may well ask a question myself, I have a couple of throw away id's.

    Soo
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  • cyberpig_2
    cyberpig_2 Posts: 445 Forumite
    Think he was referring to a bear called "Fawkes"


    See HERE and the question on that auction

    :D
  • Marvo434
    Marvo434 Posts: 427 Forumite
    " AND IN EXCERLENT CONDITION" !

    Can't spell either.
    "If a man says something, but there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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