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Seller Rip off's.

erroclanc_0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 22:53:13 GMT

I am sick and tired of the sellers receiving my money and still 10 days later still have not posted my Paid for Item!. I have been played with by sellers and Ebay just keep letting the same people do this and get no reprimand.
I spend thousands a year on ebay but I am sick of this game where it takes me 30 days from when I perchase the items that never gets sent to get my money back. THE GAME IS Over with Ebay sellers as I am Never going to use Ebay ever again. I am going back to buying my things from a shop where I look and see and feel and buy and take home with me SATISFIED that I may have paid a little more but my item is real and if it is no good I will get a replacement strait away! 👍 I'd say Ebay stocks may fall very bad in 2020 but they do not listen to the buyers that pay the money up front!
Don't listen and FOLD and lose your profits.
Leaving EBay never to return.

Re: Seller Rip off's.

sandypebbles — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:43:55 GMT

eBay are ALL about the buyer

If you choose to buy from scammer sellers in China, and to not use the many eBay tools available to get your money back, that is YOUR choice

Buyers have ALL the protection there is, IF they choose to use it

eBay staff do not read here nor could they care less about your tantrum

Just remember not to buy anything on your other ID with thousands of $$ in purchases either

See ya, you will not be missed

Re: Seller Rip off's.

lyndal1838 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:51:54 GMT

Wow, you must buy expensive items if you 9 transactions on this account amount to thousands of dollars.....or do you have another account with more activity.

Most of the sellers you have bought from have atrocious feedback....even the Australian sellers. I would not have bought from them.

Have you taken the seller's handling time into account....10 days is not unreasonable handling time and the seller is quite entitled to take that time if it is stated in the listing.

Re: Seller Rip off's.

erroclanc_0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:06:12 GMT

Well when you pay for a item on the 5/3 /2020 and on the 12...13...14..and 15th and it says it is not posted yet that's a scam in my books but again I am not as smart as you. **bleep**

Re: Seller Rip off's.

sandypebbles — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:19:15 GMT

So stop buying off scammer sellers just so you can complain

You need to be over 18 to use eBay anyway, and clearly by your response to factual advice you are around five years old

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gutterpunkz05 — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 02:20:49 GMT

Yet of the 8 times you have left feed back, apart from leaving 1 neg (not related to delivery time), you have left positive FB and all state you were 100% happy with delivery time.

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madebya2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 23:16:18 GMT

Hi there, I don't use the forums much here, actually your message is the first I've read. I'm thinking if you have taken the time to even write a message here you must have been pretty upset with the sellers you've experienced. I'm both a buyer and seller of eBay and I completely have experienced what you're talking about, I've also experienced some really awesome sellers that I've recieved items 2days after I've ordered them and have been totally surprised by their speed and quality of packaging. I guess I was drawn to your message cause I wanted to let you know there are lots of sellers out there that provide really awesome service and I guess it IS hard to find them cause the seller rating doesn't really help very much. I understand you want searching, buying and receiving to be as fast and painless as possible, I guess I can only suggest you reach out to a seller first before purchasing, if they reply really quickly and honestly to you then you're probably in for a great experience. Really hope you stay on eBay, I have had plenty of great experiences.

Ezra

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mysticalhawkowlwares — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:23:15 GMT

Ebay allows chinese sellers to use inapproiate listing practices. The will have on there picture an Australian Logo or AU Stock. The Item location is generally make believed, if you dig deeper into the listing you will find where the seller is based.

I sell and buy on eBay and only buy from AU Sellers, and glady pay a little extra to help us AU Sellers: For you/we still have a choice who to buy from. Just do you homework and pay a little extra for a honest Seller.

Ebay should be accountable for this as it's there site and business and we really only lease the store just like the shopping centre.

Buyers should also be accontable for it as you as consumers keep buying from them.

Smaller Australian Sellers are really being hit hard even before the Corvid 19, also free postage isn't free postage the price of postage will be included in item price. But that's eBay dictatorship.

Re: Seller Rip off's.

lyndal1838 — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 03:29:17 GMT

@mysticalhawkowlwares wrote:

Smaller Australian Sellers are really being hit hard even before the Corvid 19, also free postage isn't free postage the price of postage will be included in item price. But that's eBay dictatorship.

How is it ebay dictatorship that free postage is not free? Surely there are no sellers who believe there is a Postage Fairy who pays for it.

The term should be postage included.

Sellers do not have to offer free postage if they do not find it suits their selling model.

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fatphyllis — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:50:44 GMT

I'm so angry - I wanted to purchase 2 chairs from the same seller - it said put in your postcode which I did and it said FREE to that postcode. Then a ! came up I clicked on it and it said checkout/commit to purchase and seller will send you updated total. I smelled a rat, wasn't comfortable doing that and contacted them to be told there would be a freight charge of over $185! I was furious, contacted Ebay customer service where Rep told me I must have bought something else that was free and I was confused and if I removed the other item it should rectify itself. I kept repeating I had bought nothing else, sent the screenshot of what I wanted where it said FREE but he still didn't understand so I gave up! Seller is telling me that I must have seen it on my phone and that sometimes happens but it wasn't it was on my home PC.....this is an Australian based owner seller too so I'm even more furious!

Re: Seller Rip off's.

lyndal1838 — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:42:44 GMT

When an item is listed as Freight being used it often shows as post free and to contact the seller for a freight quote.

The sller has done nothing wrong as he told you to wait for an invoice with the charges.....why did you not ask for a quote first?

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springyzone — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 23:29:37 GMT

I have heard of that happening and (as someone else said) it seemed to happen mostly to those using a phone app. Showed up as free postage when it shouldn't. It is a bit of a worry it happened to you on a computer as well, it sounds as if the ebay system is a bit glitchy at times or else something is wrong with the seller's set up in the ad.

I'd be upset too if it showed as free to my postcode but then wasn't, especially as you went to the trouble to actually feed in the postcode and check. $185 is a massive difference!

I am assuming here that as you smelled a rat and contacted the seller, you didn't actually commit to purchase the item, you didn't checkout or pay anything.

There really isn't a lot you can do as the seller obviously isn't prepared to sell the chairs to you with free freight.

Well done on being alert and checking before committing. At least you aren't caught up in an ebay dispute but I agree, the whole thing would be annoying.

Re: Seller Rip off's.

springyzone — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 23:43:04 GMT

@erroclanc_0 wrote:
I am sick and tired of the sellers receiving my money and still 10 days later still have not posted my Paid for Item!. I have been played with by sellers and Ebay just keep letting the same people do this and get no reprimand.
I spend thousands a year on ebay but I am sick of this game where it takes me 30 days from when I perchase the items that never gets sent to get my money back. THE GAME IS Over with Ebay sellers as I am Never going to use Ebay ever again. I am going back to buying my things from a shop where I look and see and feel and buy and take home with me SATISFIED that I may have paid a little more but my item is real and if it is no good I will get a replacement strait away! 👍 I'd say Ebay stocks may fall very bad in 2020 but they do not listen to the buyers that pay the money up front!
Don't listen and FOLD and lose your profits.
Leaving EBay never to return.

I don't spend thousands a year so i am obviously not in your league, but on the other hand, I have been on ebay for about 20 years and in the last few years, I rarely have any trouble getting my items in good time. I am at a loss to explain why you are having so much trouble.

Things are genuinely much, much, much faster than they were in the early 2000s and that's because you now get an estimated delivery date listed on ads and if something doesn't arrive by then or soon afterwards, you are perfectly entitled to open an ebay claim for item not received. If you do this, you should get your money back.

Most sellers these days are professional business sellers, there are a lot fewer of the amateur 'home sellers' who were sometimes a bit slack in the past.

You're free to buy from wherever you like but if you do ever buy from ebay under your other account, just do as I do.

-buy mostly from Australian sellers

-check out their feedback first, especially any negs, to see if there is a pattern. If lots of people are saying they are slow to post, give that seller a miss.

-check out the ETA, make sure it is only a week or so away

-open a claim for item not received if your purchase doesn't arrive pretty much in time. Allow a bit of grace but don't wait weeks.

If you do those things, you generally should have a fairly happy experience.

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south.coffee — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:39:13 GMT

As a valued eBay customer with 9 transactions eBay Inc will miss you terribly amongst its 10.75 billion USD revenue.

Thanks for dropping by. Share price is holding up. You can close your account here:

https://ocsnext.ebay.com.au/ocs/ca