Unpaid items

[manickmechanic]

How is it that a seller can refund the purchase price then mark the item as 'unpaid'?

This is how petty minded sellers can negate a buyer's account just because they decide to NOT honour a sale that the buyer just bought and paid for.

The seller can also claim to have no stock yet they merely just wanted to increase the price.

Ebay allows this with total disregard for the laws of our country..

Buyers beware, having an excellent buyer rating, paying for every single purchase and having 100% positive feedback, is of NO VALUE when dealing with ebay 'customer service', irrespective of their opening words thanking you for your 13 years as a buyer..

In practice ebay actually prefers dodgy sellers over good customers, at least that's what i've learnt over the past 2 months trying to resolve an issue, that remains unresolved.

We NEED the ability to block dodgy sellers from appearing in our search results.

[domino-710]

The key - is to buy - that which you need.

A kitchen sieve - OK - China - rubbish.

We have a choice - BUY AUSTRALIAN

A sieve for - specific purposes - specific use - laboratory purposes - totally available here in Aus.

Even my laundry basket is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

[manickmechanic]

I've had less issues buying directly out of China than buying from within Australia.

The biggest issue with buying from China is that far too often the item simply disappears once it arrives here, usually an issue such as that or a wrong item sent, results in positive feedback due to the seller's attitude. 

However, even for an item like a kitchen sieve a wrong stated size could make a purchase worthless, I personally own at least five of them and not a single one gets used in the kitchen, two of those are for 'specific fit' usage in my workshop, totally unrelated to food.

For me, feedback left for NAD is related to wether or not I was seeking a specific detail in an item particularly in regard to wether that item fitment to other components AND the seller's attitude in dealing with me.

Of late there seems to be a lot of sellers who appear to assume that accurate information in their listings is not important, or that honouring a sale is also in the same category.

I've also seen a lot of negative feedback left for sellers where the seller received such because the courier or postal service was actually at fault, back when I was first using ebay I concluded a rough estimate that perhaps 50% of negative feedback left for sellers was not due to an action of the seller, admittedly it has been a long time since I researched that in some detail.

[manickmechanic]

Buying Australian IS ideal, not always so easy to find at an affordable price..

Regarding Lab sieves, at the time I was searching for what I needed I was shocked at what my internet searches didn't provide, having failed to discover any local stores selling such.

There certainly are options available (I just searched again with considerably more results this time, though  no obviously Aus made) but when your income is limited and the use for the product is not commercial then it is very difficult to justify spending something like 8 times the price for something that is only needed to be used a few times each year, such as separate my vegetable crop seeds ready for storage.

For me I need to consider the usage of an item and the value of such when considering what quality or price of an item.

I've also discovered that many Australian businesses simply have ridiculous mark ups on stuff that came out of China anyway and an identical item can be bought on from ebay for a fraction of the cost.

Incidentally my own clothes basket is also Australian made.

[domino-710]

Yeeaa - for the laundry baskets. lol

Just a thought - as you have not supplied a pic of said sieve - could you possibly make one.??

[manickmechanic]

I could but to do so relatively easily and still have a decent product, I'd have to spend like a minimum of $500 on a tool and buy some mesh of the required size which to buy in a small quantity is only a fraction cheaper than buying a cheap sieve, like most things these days..

[domino-710]

OK - really curious - what ' tool '.

[davewil1964]

Here's a workaround that won't cost $500 -

Get a piece of cardboard, cut a 19cm (or a fraction less) circle out of it, cut a 20cm (or a fraction more) circle out of the remnant. You now have a sleeve that turns your 19cm sieve into a 20cm sieve.

[domino-710]

Why not do step 2 first. ??

[manickmechanic]

a bead roller or jenny swage tool, i believe it may also have some other names