Looks like some mutants have been let loose on eBay again.

[xb50gs]

I've never dished out so many negatives as I have lately and nearly all over the same thing, sellers not accepting paypal.

I normally let the stupid comments slide eg: I accept paypal if you pay the fees, depending on how bad I want the item, and how honest the seller is. Usually I respond with a stern ticking off stating that they can't do that, but occasionallly, if its a low priced item, it has reasonable postage and I just can't find the item anywhere else, I will give in and pay the 3% (Part of the fun of owning a 38yo muscle car)

However, when someone states categorically they WILL NOT ACCEPT PAYPAL (and make no mention of it in their auction) I send the payment through. Typically it is unclaimed, as they use a dodgy email address, sometimes its refunded. Those sellers get a negative as I'm just sick and tired of it. I don't waste time emaiing backwards and forwards, as the outcome is always the same, so I put a end to it and be over and done. I've got proof I tried to pay, they refused it, end of story.

Well, my latest 3 loonies must have chewed their chain off and got to the computer as they've been nuts!

FIrst one sent 3 emails saying NO PAYPAL blah blah blah, so I replied that I'm very sorry, I'm away at work and can only pay with paypal and after being ignored and my payment being unclaimed, I left a negative when I got home and moved on, so I thought. This pig phoned me, asked me what the F I thought I was doing, carried right on, whinging about fees, why should he have to pay fees on paypal when they do nothing, etc etc, but when I said that I was a seller and pay fees for paypal on items sometimes over $1000, his response was 'well, thats just too bad' so I told him same deal for him and he erupts. Calls me a F and a C, starts raging, I stay calm (somehow) ask him if he's finished and hang the phone up.

The next one is worse. I buy a car part, pay with paypal, its pending, then get emails saying please pay with bank deposit as its safer. Yep, sorry mate, money is already sent through to paypal, sign in and claim it. No, I put a false email there so I dont pay fees. Oh, great, here we go again.

Wasn't in the mood to stuff around so I told him not interested, cancel the sale. Nope. He's going to force me to buy it. He says paypal is now current and he expects me to pay a $40 fee to use it (on a $280 sale)

So again, I'm wasting time explaining policies which dropkicks agree to abide by when signing up to sell on eBay. Anyway, I had to leave for work so I send one last email saying that i'll pay the total price, not a penny more and if I don't hear from him by 12pm that day, i'll be away at work for 2 weeks (I'm not) and i'm not interested. Reply comes through at 5pm (despite emails coming every 5mins beforehand) saying that I HAVE to pay as he's sent the item to me.

I sent a reply saying if he's dumb enough to send it to me after I told him I would be away with work, he's dumber than I thought and I would return his item once I got back from work.

Oh, goody, now he's going to get his solicitor onto me. I told him I kept all correspondence from him and he has broken the contract by trying to impose fees that he's not entitled to. So for the next 4 days I got a torrent of abuse which was all forwarded to eBay, ranging from name calling to threats to demands for compensation and loss of profit (Huh??) which made my head spin, as the item was relisted for $150 more than I originally paid for it!

Then there was another goose who had feedback of 91.7 and negs for item not received, item arrived faulty, etc, who expected me to pay via bank deposit. Um, No thanks. Paid again with paypal and its refunded to me with a note saying it is his ex gf's paypal and he doesn't have access to it (how did he refund it then??) and asks for bank deposit, again.

I sent a reply saying that there is no way i'll pay someone with less than 100% feedback and comments about faulty/missing item with bank deposit. Again, i'm told if I pay the the fees I can use paypal, which I refuse. The next email tells me I have problems if I want to use paypal as it isn't safe.

Why do the loonies seems to appear every few months! and why do I cop them all??

Actually, on a positive note, I bought a new car for my parents off eBay and the guy was awesome. He delivered it to my mates place as I was away that night, it was 100% as described, he turned up right on time, was really good to deal with and there was no problems what so ever. I left him an extra $25 for his troubles and he was wrapped.

I guess there are still a lot of great sellers out there, but gee, i've has a fair whack of nutters lately!

[stickerswa]

One  relevent thing I got from this is ...the OP is still buying and dropping red dots for stupid reasons so I now have new buyer blocked on my special list.

Thanks for the info.    

[davewil1964]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

Bumping this thread because it's 5yo, and it seems that resurrecting dead posts is the current trend. This was on the last page and none of those threads had been locked, so I'm not sure when that's going to happen as per Michelle.

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How many of you read the entire thread? It's proof that some old threads can contain really outdated info, and they should be LOCKED!

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Sorry Dave.

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" Its proof some old threads contain outdated information and should be locked"...........

Unfortunately some things never change.....................( yes Dave I know you will never change, but I wasnt reffering to you..........) 

I sell old car parts and the bigger the car ( XB Falcon GS ) the bigger the Wally behind the wheel. The sellers of the muscle car parts in the thread where dipsticks, but the buyer was a bigger dipstick.

I think " muscle car" refers to whats in their head and the big car makes up for little  " muscles"  in other places..........Just my take on it ..........

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phew, I thought you were talking about me for a second.

I've only had a couple of 253 Toranas and a Brockmobile, so obviously not me.

[collect247]

11 torana's and monaro's in our younger days and the smallest 400cu Chevy motor wish we kept them could have been millionaire's lol

[chameleon54]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

Bumping this thread because it's 5yo, and it seems that resurrecting dead posts is the current trend. This was on the last page and none of those threads had been locked, so I'm not sure when that's going to happen as per Michelle.

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How many of you read the entire thread? It's proof that some old threads can contain really outdated info, and they should be LOCKED!

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Sorry Dave.

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" Its proof some old threads contain outdated information and should be locked"...........

Unfortunately some things never change.....................( yes Dave I know you will never change, but I wasnt reffering to you..........) 

I sell old car parts and the bigger the car ( XB Falcon GS ) the bigger the Wally behind the wheel. The sellers of the muscle car parts in the thread where dipsticks, but the buyer was a bigger dipstick.

I think " muscle car" refers to whats in their head and the big car makes up for little  " muscles"  in other places..........Just my take on it ..........

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phew, I thought you were talking about me for a second.

I've only had a couple of 253 Toranas and a Brockmobile, so obviously not me.

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I could dribble on with some tripe about muscle cars and Labor supporters giving double trouble but.....

The 253 Torana was an absolute classic, but not quite the same as the big Falcons or Monaros in the Wally stakes. It was a bit more well balanced and refined. ( shows your impecible tastes there Dave ) ........And the Brockmobile ......Well that almost qualifies.....    ( but hey its a classic in the making   ) .... Have you still got it ?

If you want the truth I had a 307 Chevy powered HK years ago for shearing wagon............... And guess what.... I was young and stupid. Still not quite a muscle car but when I got behind the wheel I drove like a complete wally ....

[davewil1964]

It was a base level VK. A whole roughly 125kw.

Some **bleep** knocked it off one night just after PB killed himself.

The first banana was a beauty. Dynoed 99hp on the back wheels, pulled 6200 before points bouncing, 25mpg around town. Definitely a Wednesday engine.