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report a member

puppe_luv — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:51:47 GMT

i purchased an item with buy it now, i contacted the seller was told they sold outside of ebay.

Re: report a member

whiznumber6 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 04:42:23 GMT

Seems like they had it listed on other non-eBay websites and it sold on one of those before they had a chance to end the eBay listing. You've left negative feedback for them, which is pretty much all you can do - unless you can prove that they actually sold it off-eBay after an enquiry on-eBay, eBay won't take any sort of action.

You'd be best to just move on...

Re: report a member

countessalmirena — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 04:58:49 GMT

@puppe_luv,

Sometimes these things happen. There is nothing precluding a seller from advertising an item for sale in various places - although eBay did attempt to enforce that some years ago. (I suspect that they were advised it was an unlawful requirement.)

Of course, it disappoints a buyer to click onto Buy it now and find that the item's no longer available - but that's the worst that you will suffer. The seller, in contrast, has the negative feedback you've given, and will probably have been given chastisement by eBay (possibly restricted from selling). That's far worse than anything you will suffer.

That seller is completely inexperienced - did you not note that? He/she appears (from feedback) to have neither bought nor sold on eBay before, so your negative has given them -1%. I would have given the seller some slack, given their inexperience, and simply explained to them that they should have ended the listing on eBay as soon as the item was purchased by someone through whatever other means it was advertised - Facebook, group, notice on local community board, whatever it was.

Re the seller's inexperience - did you note that the seller included "Cash on delivery" as one of the payment options? COD is definitely NOT what the seller thinks it is! COD is a costly Australia Post option which wouldn't even be available for something like this! Cost = $13.75 COD fee + cost of postage + payment for the item... and you can try to imagine what the "cost of postage" would be. It isn't the same as COP (Cash on Pickup) but is frequently confused with that on eBay. eBay should make it clearer for inexperienced sellers when they are creating the listing; I favour a huge pop-up sign saying "CAUTION! BEWARE! Are you SURE? This is not the same as cash on pickup; it's a relatively costly Australia Post delivery option - check the AP website here for further info!!!!!")

The seller probably hadn't any idea that not ending the listing was important. I have heard more than one person explaining that they thought that listing an item on eBay was the online equivalent of putting an ad in the paper... and of course eBay members find over time (and/or through exhaustive reading of eBay's Help pages) learn that there are important differences!

I wouldn't have purchased anything like that without a lot of additional information. The description on the listing was almost non-existent. No mention of brand of mattress, maker of the furniture, how old it was, how often used, whether the mattress was soft, medium or firm...

I'm sure you know how to get a refund if you paid by PayPal. If you intended paying cash on pickup, even better - no need to wait for a refund.

Re: report a member

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:12:20 GMT

Why the need to report them?

You have very likely had them banned from selling on eBay anyway

Plus they will have to pay eBay their 10% fees

Did you actually pay ?

If so, you know how to get your money refunded

Re: report a member

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 06:03:08 GMT

If you haven't paid for the bed then just move on and find another.

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collect247 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 06:28:34 GMT

I'd like to report a seller also lol I won an item and it hasn't even been 2 days and the seller messaged saying I haven't heard from you since the auction ended so I'm cancelling the transaction **bleep** I thought that you get 4 days to pay lol.

But I'm just going to move on and not let it worry me.

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kopenhagen5 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:00:33 GMT

Wonder why your seller waited so long before cancelling.

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collect247 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:23:09 GMT

Does a buyer get a strike if the seller cancels before the buyer gets the chance to pay?

And I bet that the seller used 'there's something wrong with the buyers address'

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:19:58 GMT

No, only if an unpaid case is closed against the buyer.

Thought you might like to see this - https://9now.nine.com.au/today/woolworths-rare-fury-simba-ooshie-destroyed-on-live-tv-by-victorian-farmers/4381cc85-5887-4e47-a543-d6f5c6c8449a

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collect247 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:31:43 GMT

They thought they could also cash in on a craze that really isn't worth it silly silly people.

If anything people should list them for 99c and see what the market says lol.

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Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:06:49 GMT

If you are having a go at the farmers...

Trying to keep a farm alive during a drought isn't what I would call "Trying to cash in".

If you are having a shot at the collectors value of items generally....

Have a go at people selling little squares of paper for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I think they are called stamps.

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collect247 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:39:37 GMT

They got caught out so they had to come up with that excuse lol look at all the bad comments the farmers are getting for trying it on.

They thought they could sell something worthless period, no one in their right mind would think they could sell a toy for that much money.

And stamps are worth something lol if you have a stamp that's worth something simple.

Personally I prefer coins.

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wide-world-of-stamps — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:14:15 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
If you are having a go at the farmers...
Trying to keep a farm alive during a drought isn't what I would call "Trying to cash in".
If you are having a shot at the collectors value of items generally....
Have a go at people selling little squares of paper for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I think they are called stamps.

We wish!

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:24:11 GMT

Little square piece of paper sold for hundreds n thousands of dollars -

https://finance.nine.com.au/executive-suite/100-pound-note-australian-banknote-sets-world-record-at-auction-news-finance/7781e2e3-e03d-4dcf-9154-446cf1d07d16

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springyzone — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:20:06 GMT

@puppe_luv wrote:
i purchased an item with buy it now, i contacted the seller was told they sold outside of ebay.

Never mind, it's disappointing for you but beds aren't a rarity so there will be others out there.

I feel a bit sorry for the seller as they will have to pay fees on the ebay sale. You can consider that their punishment if you like. I don't know what happened. Either they didn't realise the need for speed and didn't rush to remove their ebay ad once the bed sold privately, or else they were very unlucky and both sales occurred about the same time.

Your neg feedback may affect their selling account on ebay but it would not affect me as a buyer as all it does is confirm that someone else saw it in person and liked it enough to buy on the spot. I am probably like countess in that what would make me hesitate more is the lack of detail eg brand names etc, in their ads. I noticed in their couch ad they have written it is 99% new, they would even say 100% new, yet it is a year old. Risky way to describe it. Definitely newbies.

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Anonymous — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:24:25 GMT

Collectable items are worth what the market deems they're worth, simple.