somebody blow up e-bay....please

I have 3 *****es , 1 numbskulls who can'rt read a description like Does it have a ***le when it says in red letters no ***le
2 damn scammers ie I am a broker who has a customer will buy your if...
3 snipe programs ****
ok.. 4 nonpaying bidders who send 4 emails saying "i will send money soon" about 2 weeks later i end up killing the auction and file nonpaying bidder

 

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I think everyone in england uses english properly compared to us....

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Naw, it just sounds that way

We've been bombarded with stereotypes over the years - I've been here over 4yrs now & can honestly say, it isn't much different here than anywhere else I've been...

 

I have mixed feelings about ebay.

I've used ebay for years as a buyer (not a seller, yet) and have overall had good results. Sniper programs piss me off but they are a fact of life. Lost out on a 50 Chevy because of a snipe, was kinda bitter about that until I got my Buick (so it was for the better after all ). But recently I found the upper grill bar for my Buick from a guy who is about an hour's drive for me, so I went out there today to pick it up, and ended up finding some more goodies while I was there.

Hmmm, there's still an outstanding delivery I'm waiting for on some valve covers though. Grrrr.

 

If you want that hot item and dont want to spend a fortune, use one of the sniper services. They all have free trials. esnipe, bidnapper, there are others I am sure. Overstock.com is doing auctions now - eBay needs some compe***ion. They set up this deal where the auction end is 'soft' - if it gets a bid close to the end, the end is extended another 10 minutes.

I think the most asinine question I ever got on eBay was when I was selling a Henry Paul Band c***ette and this dumb broad e-mails and asks, 'is it an LP album or a tape?' I asked her, you can't see the auction picture plain as day? On my monitor it was bigger than life-size. Long story short she retracts her bid - even though someone else had outbid her - and the bid price drops from like $38 to like $12. I killed the auction and kept the tape after that **** - at a real auction, if I stop bidding the price doesn't drop back to nothing for the other guy.

I do get a lot of these ***holes who say 'I'll give you $3.50 and you have to pay the shipping' on cars - there is a common scam where guys who just want parts will hope you are stupid enough to believe them when they tell you your car is worthless (quote: "no knowledgable person would take on that car as a project") and that you should part it out. I hate guys too lazy to get off their *** and go find stuff themself. This clown let it slip eventually that he "doesn't do rust" - apparently he either only restores cars that are less than 5 years old, buys restored cars repaints them and claims he 'restored' them himself, or is a stroker looking for cars that do not exist. #1 all cars rust sooner or later unless you keep them in a climate controlled garage and never drive them; and #2 all of them are good for soemthing, it's just a question of ability, money and desire as to wether you restore it, rod it or give up and part it out. But I'm not a ***** and not about to listen to someone tell me a coupe with solid fenders, rockers, quarters and good doors, is a parts car because of a little surface rust. Which is what ticks me off more than anything - if you want to be stupid, be stupid, but don't ***ume I am.

Now, it's nigeria scammers and phony cashier's check ***holes all the time. I'm rounding up addresses for people I don't like to give to these people so they can send all the phony checks they want and maybe some jack*** who pissed me off will be stupid enough to cash one.. either way, the scammer is screwed out of at least one phony check and slows him down a bit as he thinks he has a ****er. But I don't do buy it now after this clown bid on a Dodge Ramcharger winter beater I am trying to unload - from Singapore. You're telling me this clown is going to spend thousands of dollars to import a rusty 15 year old $500 work truck? At least he got kicked off eBay pretty fast I got my money back easily.

I had one of these ***holes win my auction though using one of those sniper services. He bid right at the end of the auction - already had a -1 feedback count, but eBay of course doesn't let you block these ***holes from bidding - you have to either block no one, or everyone. He wanted to send me a $3500 cashier's check, keep the payment for the item and send the rest to his gay lover in nigeria (okay, I added the part about his lover), and some 'shipping agent' would come pick the part up in person. Yeah right, and your shipping agent will turn out to be Pam Anderson showing up at my door in a raincoat and nothing else, who will insist on giving me a 'bonus' (well some kind of bone at any rate) for my help with this rusty piece of tin...


Remember - if they expect to overpay and have you send money anywhere? it's a scam. Tell 'em to stick it up their rear end -

So yeah, be my guest... if eBay doesn't blow up on it's own accord. You guys who sell, go over your billing real close from about March on. Ever since they changed the billing system it's been messed up - not billing, taking auto-payments at various times and sometimes twice a month (or from the wrong source of funds), multiple billing people (in one case, guys with an "ebay store" normally $10 a month were billed $360 for it) and so forth - to the point some lawyers on the west coast have started a cl*** action lawsuit against eBay. Now they still haven't fixed that and they're trying to start other changes at the end of this year, stuff that looks like it will make it possible for some idiot to bid on your stuff, not pay, claim he did and never got it, and make it so you lose your account. Fun aint it?

 

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I did have a little ******* match with another seller a couple weeks ago. I had a set of bumper brackets up and I always get $125-$150 for them if I make sure there aren't another set advertised. I run mostly 7 day auctions, then this clown lists his on a 3 day auction to end an hour after mine. I got $93 for mine and he got $86. I sent him a message and told him I didnd't appreciate it and he had actually shot us both in the foot. We had a few exchanges with him playing tough guy and threatening me. I stayed cool and just the facts. He finally settled down and appologized.

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Yer kidding me, right? Who knew there were unwritten rules about WHEN you could post your ****. That's a new one to me....

 

There isn't and I normally just take it as it rolls, but there is such a thing as not doing something to intentionally screw someone else while hoping to benifit from it. It isn't an ebay rule, more of a basic society guideline. And if the guy had a brain in his head he would have researched what he was selling and realized that he too would get top dollar if he just waited a couple days to have the only set up for sale.
Since when is it a bad thing to exercise common courtesy to other people. I don't expect other ebayers to kiss my ****, but I don't like it when they set out to intentionally use me as a stepping stone either. 300 transactions and this was the first time I ever felt it necessary to contact another seller over this issue. I only have one negative and it was retalitory for giving some guy a nuetral on a slow pay. The other seller here was 54 for 6.

 

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I don't expect other ebayers to kiss my ****, but I don't like it when they set out to intentionally use me as a stepping stone either.

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True, I see your point. I guess that just makes me dumb*** because I've never "researched" ebay on when to and when not to sell stuff. Never realized it was that big of a deal....

 

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I don't expect other ebayers to kiss my ****, but I don't like it when they set out to intentionally use me as a stepping stone either.

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True, I see your point. I guess that just makes me dumb*** because I've never "researched" ebay on when to and when not to sell stuff. Never realized it was that big of a deal....

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***uming there is a fixed amount of bidders for an item at any given time it only makes sense to not list your item when there are others up for auction but to wait and be the only one so all of the bidders have only your item to bid on. It doesn't work on real common stuff but on hard to find stuff it makes a big difference. I probably spend more time on ebay researching than any other reason.

 

I'd go broke "researching"

 

I think ebay will eventually self-destruct. It's based on the honor system, and lets be honest here, there's many places in the world where the standard business practice is to scam and try to get one up on the other guy. The nigerian money scam is the prime example.

They're gonna have to come up with a more solid system where scammers and non-payers get penilized, in dollars, for not following though. I kinda figure that's where they're heading when they bought paypal. If you have a closed system, where your bidding, paying, and even non-paying is directly tied to your bank account, that would cut down on fraud quite a bit. Anyhow, it's a complicated problem with no easy fix it seems.

I'm sure most of you have hadd problems with cheapskates and tire-kickers in person too. I had a 79 malibu that I sold to my brother a while back. He's been trying to sell it for a year now on and off... he's asking $2000 OBO, but everyone that comes to look at it is trying to get it for $500 or less. He got so sick of dealing with idiots that he stopped trying to sell. Fine by me, I want to buy it back later anyway...

 

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They're gonna have to come up with a more solid system where scammers and non-payers get penilized, in dollars, for not following though. I kinda figure that's where they're heading when they bought paypal. If you have a closed system, where your bidding, paying, and even non-paying is directly tied to your bank account, that would cut down on fraud quite a bit. Anyhow, it's a complicated problem with no easy fix it seems.


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Paypal is connected to not only your bank account if you want to recieve money, but a credit card too, even if you get scammed by someone, they will only refund you the money that is in the persons paypal account. I payed $210 to someone for some parts, I got $10.93 back. Even though he had a bank account and a credit card tied to his paypal, paypal cant take money from those when its unauthorized by the owner of the accoutns.

 

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Ebay has its own sniper software, Proxy Bidding, so I don't know where statements like the above come from???

If you decide on your maximum bid, and enter it, Ebay will automatically outbid anybody who bids against you, up until YOUR max bid.

So, if you absolutly MUST have that certain Ebay item just enter $1,000,000 in the bid box and Ebay will keep outbidding anybody who bids against you, up until $1,000,000. No magic, no software, no 'sniper' software, all legit. Except you have to be prepared to pay more than EVERYBODY else who is bidding. If you're not, then you don't get the item.

Bidding a few bucks more than the last bid, then ******* and moaning because you were outbid a minute before the end means you didn't bring enough freight to the party.

 

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Paypal is connected to not only your bank account if you want to recieve money, but a credit card too, even if you get scammed by someone, they will only refund you the money that is in the persons paypal account.

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Don't believe everything you hear about Ebay, as there are more than a few ways to get an account there, and the recent ***holes who bid on hundreds of 'Buy It Now's in the UK, just for a laugh, no intentions of paying, have obviously nothing to fear from the powers of Ebay. Anybody can get a ******** credit card number and open an account in Ebay.

 

Ephemera is the big bone in your leg.

 

E Bay has been a God send to me and the missus. My sweetheart of 40 years had a breakdown in January and was just getting back to normal when her horse fell on her the first week in June and crushed her hip and pelvis. She still isn't healed and needs an operation to repair the sciatic nerve in the next few weeks. The doctor and hospital bills and drugs have been enormous. With all the stuff I've collected over the years we have managed to keep our heads above water. Without E bay I would be broke. I've had one bad deal. Dennis Joseph screwed me out of an under dash record player for $138.00. Other than that it's been pretty much a lifesaver. And the best part is all my inlaws and nieghbors no longer laugh and give me **** about my junk pile.
Thanks for letting me vent, I've been holding this in for a long time and it feels good to get it out.

 

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I'm just pissed about the guys that outbid me on something by 12 cents.

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yes but maybe that guy was bidding 100 dollars more then you and even if you had bid 25 more cents you still would have lost...
it could be way more then the 12 cents you know...

 

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y and was just getting back to normal when her horse fell on her the first week in June and crushed her hip and pelvis.

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So that's what I have to do to get all the junk laying around my yard???

All kidding aside...I hope your wife makes a quick and full recovery - those horses can do so much damage. My mom fell off and tore all the ligaments in her knee on Mothers day about 13 years ago.....I've broken an arm falling off, broken many toes....But they're worth it!