Sorry........ I Just Laugh Now!

[aussietastic]

They say that the cost of a free society is eternal vigilance and I see a lot of strange things listed on here but I don't really give a toss anymore since I got a threat of being banned for mentioning specific items on this forum. However, I just came across an item I have to mention (not in specifics) that just made me laugh at how ignorant the eBay hierarchy must be and how they tick-off the people that only want to make eBay a fairer place to shop.

The item is a 5/8 spark-plug socket in 3/8 drive, that is listed in auction format with a start price of 99 cents with a standard postage of $18. The postage is listed as a 3kg satchel for a 200g item......... talk about laugh!! I wonder what the eBay fees on that is?

I see this fairly regularly, but who cares?

How was that moderators?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

You can't proceed through checkout without a postage price, and in this case none was specified and reliant on the seller submitting one, which after the purchase can only be done on an ninvoice.

Are you sure about that? I'm not an expert and I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me will be along son, but I thought if no postage iwas quoted then clicking on "pay now" would simply bring up the price in the listing.

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Yes, I am dead sure, otherwise I wouldn't have said it.

You have already had the OP explain this to you, and then I did as well, how many more people do you need? What, you think that eventually someone will come along and agree with your incorrect information?

The OP says that postage was unspecified, so how could checkout bring up a price in the listing? There wasn't one!

[*crikey*mate*]

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@masterb2006 wrote:

Mmmm......... I hope you all know that you are not discussing anything related to trading on eBay!

This topic has been bumped to' Community Spirit - Show your community spirit! Talk with fellow members about non eBay related topics.'

Good one Moderators!........... It is always encouraging to see such dedication to overwhelming ineptness.

Oh!........ now that we are here........ does anybody know if you can wash a white T-shirt with red socks?

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Sure you can!

My OH does it all the time,

[aussietastic]

No worries, I'll just do a load now. 

[*crikey*mate*]

LOL, sometimes I really do wish that he would be useful in some other part of the house LOL

He's a shocker! He just doesn't sort laundry! Towels, fluffy stuff, my good clothes, the kids' good clothes, their WHITE school uniform shirts, pressed trousers, even handwash only stuff - it's anything goes, this man has no boundaries when it comes to washing

And then he just tosses nit all in the dryer! All together!

I now have a secret stash of my own clothes just so he can't destroy them and I wait till he goes out to wash em so he doesn't try and top up the washing machine!

Meh, if that's the worst he ever does, I reckon I'm pretty lucky, eh?

[***super_nova***]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

You can't proceed through checkout without a postage price, and in this case none was specified and reliant on the seller submitting one, which after the purchase can only be done on an ninvoice.

Are you sure about that? I'm not an expert and I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me will be along son, but I thought if no postage iwas quoted then clicking on "pay now" would simply bring up the price in the listing.

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That is NOT quite true.  All you have to do is to insert 0 in the postage space and you can pay.  Also, once you decline the mutual cancellation, the seller cannot open NPB dispute; unless something changed in the past few weeks.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

You can't proceed through checkout without a postage price, and in this case none was specified and reliant on the seller submitting one, which after the purchase can only be done on an ninvoice.

Are you sure about that? I'm not an expert and I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me will be along son, but I thought if no postage iwas quoted then clicking on "pay now" would simply bring up the price in the listing.

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That is NOT quite true.  All you have to do is to insert 0 in the postage space and you can pay.  Also, once you decline the mutual cancellation, the seller cannot open NPB dispute; unless something changed in the past few weeks.

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I'm really sorry, but for obvious reasons, the system will not permiit (or at least process) a buyer to insert their own postage amount.

And I am pretty sure that I never said anything about MC or UID's.

[j*oono]

I am quite sure that sellers have complained in the past that a buyer has entered their own (and wrong) postage amount. Perhaps that cannot be done any more.

Crikey, you really have picked up the trading boards manner of assistance 

[magicmomentz]

Correct  crikey*mate and all the members that gave similar answers, I COULD NOT enter in a postage amount of my own to be able to pay for my item through paypal.

Wasn't that disabled at least a couple of years ago when too many buyers were doing just that? Also, on my selling account, I remember in settings somewhere that I was also able to set up checkout in such a way that it would not enable buyers to enter their own amounts in postage.

And thank you to the member who pointed out that once a dispute is closed on an item, a seller cannot open another dispute.  In my case it was the item cancellation sent through first that I declined, and as mentioned in my OP, I wanted to pay for this item.  The seller then relisted my item and sold it to someone else.  Another 24 hours later I was sent the UPI.  I have another day or so apparently to pay for this item or a strike is rewarded   Yup, my reward for trying to do the right thing!

I phoned ebay again today, and now they say there is a "BUG" in the system that has allowed this seller to open a second dispute on my item.  But said BUG remains open in my ebay still waiting to be paid for!! 

Under normal circumstances a seller cannot open 2 disputes on an item.  My concerns have been passed onto Technical Support apparently, and I am awaiting their response as to what they have done about this, or IF they are going to close the UPI without rewarding me with that strike.

Oh, and I also asked ebay support today if I could just mark this as payment sent in my ebay, I have the drop down arrow where I can choose this.  I haven't done it, and ebay could not answer me what would happen if I did, I suggested it might actually close the UPI.  I also realise that would be dishonest and would not do that, but it is tempting just to find out what would happen. 

I realise this is not the appropriate thread to be discussing this, but originally this thread was in BUYING.  The mods moved this to CS, so I apologise as it not where I started this discussion.

[*crikey*mate*]

Just get customer support to redirect your technical issues to Live World. Apparently that's who fixes these things......