topic Re: ripped offed in Buying

ripped offed

ellk2014 — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:29:02 GMT

i am only going to buy 1 more thing off ebay n them im closing my account cause i have just lost to much money n to much stress when u are trying to get a refund the sellers just keep playing games with u n then u will lose your money SO WARRNING people u will lose alot off money its not worth it ebay just lost a Regler buyer

Re: ripped offed

papermoon.lady — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:56:49 GMT

When there is a problem with a purchase, yes, the first step is to contact the seller, but if the seller is not helpful you have to stop communication with him/her and open a case (you have 30 days since the last day of the estimated delivery). If you keep communicating with a seller who is not willing to help, you will just lose your money and your time.

You have been on eBay for a long time. Please read how you can get your money back:

https://pages.ebay.com.au/ebay-money-back-guarantee/

Re: ripped offed

sandypebbles — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 21:19:05 GMT

Obviously you did not use any of the tools eBay give you to get your money back

if you choose not to open a case within the time limit, that is on you

As. self declared regular buyer, you have no excuse not to know the most basic thing like open a case to get your money back

eBay do not read here

So your warning to others should be if you just do your own thing and ignore the correct procedure, yes, you will lose money

If you open the dispute, rather than play games, and expect eBay will assist you anyway you will be covered

Re: ripped offed

daydreams_12 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:06:35 GMT

Am a bit confused. If you have had such a bad time buying on Ebay "Why are you going to buy 1 more thing"??

Most people would quit now or at least learn how to check feedback and raise disputes.

Re: ripped offed

*sons_n_daughters* — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:19:46 GMT

Stop buying cheap carp from China, expecting brand name quality, and then whinge that you are being ripped off. Then you won't have the issues you're having. Your feedback left for others says a heck of a lot.

Probably a good thing you are closing your account, because millions of sellers around the world don't want you as their customer, because all they can see is trouble.

FYI, it takes 6 months for your account to close after finalisation of your last transaction.

Oh, and ebay don't care if you close your account. Seriously, they don't care one bit. You aren't even a blip in the universe to them.

Maybe read up on the help pages so you don't find yourself ripped off. Buyers never get ripped off, so clearly you've allowed it to happen.

Edit: with 388 feedback, I highly doubt ebay would class you as a "Reglar" buyer. Once you get over 100,000 sales, then they might see you as such.

Re: ripped offed

sandypebbles — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:27:01 GMT

Agreed

Only buys to neg

Find it very hard to believe after close to 9 years they 'don't know' basics

The other great thing, closing their account means one less person keeping dodgy sellers in business

Re: ripped offed

springyzone — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:24:05 GMT

It looks to me, from your feedback received, that you've bought over 400 items from different sellers on ebay but you have only left feedback for 7 of them and only when something went wrong.

7 out of over 400 is not a lot, but it is still a lot higher than I have had happen to me.

When something goes wrong, the first thing you need to do on a site like ebay is check out the help pages to see how to go about getting your money back. From what I can gather, your only strategy has been to message the seller. That hasn't worked, yet you keep doing it over and over.

There's a better way. If you don't receive something or it is significantly not as depicted in the ad, you can bypass the seller and go straight to ebay and open a claim. Read up about it.

You can close your account if you wish, but then again you could just leave it and not use it and then if, in the future, you wanted to give it another go, you wouldn't have to open a new account.

If you are seriously worried about things going wrong though, don't buy 'one more thing.'

If you must, try to make it from an aussie seller. Less trouble that way, usually.

Re: ripped offed

sugar249 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 03:04:51 GMT

Why male one more purchase/. Please leave today, you are just helping the bad sellers by supporting them

Ebay doesnt need bad buyers. Please leave do us all a favour

Re: ripped offed

repentatleisure1952 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:25:27 GMT

After 5 months I doubt if the OP will see your belated reply.

Re: ripped offed

sugar249 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:27:50 GMT

@repentatleisure1952 wrote:
After 5 months I doubt if the OP will see your belated reply.

Oh thats interesting I didnt check the date, as it popped up on the top of the list as the most recent change, and there was another comment in between. Now I'm confused

Re: ripped offed

imastawka — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:04:33 GMT

A more recent post was removed.

Re: ripped offed

sugar249 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:48:23 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
A more recent post was removed.

Thanks, I don't normally go looking for ancient posts

Re: ripped offed

springyzone — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:21:20 GMT

That sometimes happens to me too, where an old post is showing at the top so I just assume it must be a new one.

Out of interest, I just had a look at ellk's feedback though and she (or he) has received 3 positives for purchases just this month & 13 in the last 6 months, so I guess she reconsidered about closing her account.

No more negs given so hopefully all these transactions have worked out better.

Re: ripped offed

*sons_n_daughters* — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:34:39 GMT

Aaaaand, despite the threat of closing their account (which they probably thought would shut ebay down), they are still buying. So many threats, so few account closures!

Re: ripped offed

sugar249 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:38:47 GMT

@springyzone wrote:

Out of interest, I just had a look at ellk's feedback though and she (or he) has received 3 positives for purchases just this month & 13 in the last 6 months, so I guess she reconsidered about closing her account.
No more negs given so hopefully all these transactions have worked out better.

Happens all the time, they are that outraged about Ebay, but check back a few months, and they are still happily buying and selling.

My favs are the outraged one's, who say I am leaving, but still have all their items listed, they don't even pretend to leave