Sellers who put barely anything in their descriptions

[kitty-kat-kollection]

I have noticed so many clothing sellers just using the brief default blurb in their descriptions, and basically providing no information about their items at all. Some don't even include the size!

I am frustratingly aware of how easy it is these days for buyers to get an automatic refund even if the seller does not provide refunds, simply by lodging an item not as described case.

Sooo...I was wondering, just out of interest, if these sellers are omitting almost all details of their items to avoid having these cases lodged against them. If they don't describe the item, then technically how can a buyer say the item was not as described?

Does that make any sense, or have I just gone even more insane? lol

[eol-products]

Just use " Unidentified Item " as your description.

[south.coffee]

If there isn't one already, should we start a thread on the most bizarre, strange, inept, stupid, ridiculous, nonsensical listing of the week you have come across ?  (Let's have a laugh at other sellers' expense).

You are welcome to nominate YOUR OWN !

[brerrabbit585]

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@eol-products wrote:

Just use " Unidentified Item " as your description.

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But... but... but... if it IS identifiable then they can slug you for item not being as described.

[kitty-kat-kollection]

HAHAHA!!! THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!!

[countessalmirena]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a dress? The art of selling clothing on eBay.

Example text from Chapter IX: Loosey Goosey.

I think this is a dress. Full photos showing the garment here.

This is a photo of the label showing the size. Does that look like a 10 to you? It looks like a 10 to me, but you know, sometimes my local butcher looks attractive to me after two cans of warm beer and a bag full of pretzels and a long night of playing find the submarine in my kitchen sink.

This is a photo of the label showing the dimensions. I've decorated the photo with a little moustache just at the top, just where my finger is, so that it looks as though I'm wearing a finger puppet.

The photos aren't included in this sale. (You're not getting me on that!)

Neither is the butcher, and the same goes for the warm beer and pretzels, and equally this applies to the submarine and my kitchen sink. NOT INCLUDED.

[springyzone]

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@fixnwear wrote:

Just for the record (again) I was talking about sellers who don't put much in the listing mainly as the "faults" are trivial, not easy to spot, items are cheaper (a trade off for getting them at a price), and mainly as they wouldn't have even taken any notice of these minor things, nor considered them important enough to write a saga about them!

And if you can't or don't want to stitch a button if you received something without it - nothing stopping you going to the shops, at least you can then see the item, count all the buttons, check all the seams etc.

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I actually get where you are coming from. I know you probably wouldn't think it after my previous post, but I too have been bitten by a buyer whose expectations were, to my mind, unreasonable. Wanted a partial refund because of disappointment over what she said was rubbing on a stitch on a 40+ year old vintage bag. Nope, couldn't supply a photo of any damage either. But she got her partial refund just to shut her up and save us the cost of return international postage etc if it came to that.

And this I think is the main problem area with second hand goods on ebay. There isn't (there can't be) a clear dividing line between what is acceptable and what isn't. People will have different opinions.

My reasoning is second hand items are cheaper because they have been used & there probably isn't any warranty with them.

In most cases, you're never going to get anywhere near the full RRP for the simple reason if people wanted to pay full price, they would buy new or wait for it to come on special, new.

That doesn't mean all second hand stuff is necessarily cheap though. It's a matter of perception. While very minor imperfections might be fine and some wear is to be expected, I think the majority of buyers would be a bit annoyed to buy something that actually needed repairs or a bit of work on it before it could be used-if those faults had not been mentioned in the ad.

[*tippy*toes*]

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@south.coffee wrote:

If there isn't one already, should we start a thread on the most bizarre, strange, inept, stupid, ridiculous, nonsensical listing of the week you have come across ?  (Let's have a laugh at other sellers' expense).

You are welcome to nominate YOUR OWN !

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I can't think of any of the top of my head, because I haven't bought anything for ages, so haven't really been searching that much. Some Chinese ads are good for a laugh when it's obvious they've used a translator. Still, they've had a go, but they can be good for a laugh. They'd probably laugh at us if we used a translator to speak to them.

So, all I've got was a buyer that sent a message asking what colour the green tea cup was? Ummm............purple?

As for the discussion about faults, I would be upset if I bought something with a hem hanging down, or a button missing. Simple reason, if the only option to have clothes was to make them, I'd have to live naked. I couldn't sew to save my life. Years ago, I spent several hours sewing on ONE button. It had fallen off before I even left the house.

Even if I could sew, I'd be unhappy about having to go to town to buy one button. If I was going to go to town, I may as well have paid full price for the item. Then there are those with mobility issues, or arthritic hands. The last thing they need is to have to try and source a button, and then make repairs to the garment they bought. If they then have to pay someone to do the repairs, they may as well have paid full price and bought it new.

They are just my thoughts. I don't buy clothing online.

[south.coffee]

We need a title for a new Whacky item thread.  Feedback please:

"Bizarre, strange, inept, stupid, ridiculous, nonsensical listing of the week. Post your find here !"

[countessalmirena]

*tippy*, I know you've posted about that cup-buying example before... but I think I have cracked the Enigma Code on the green-purple question.

Is it possible... that the buyer thought... that when you typed "green tea cup", you meant "green tea cup" (for the imbibing of green tea) rather than "green tea cup" (a tea cup that is green)?

If so, you could have had so much fun with replying.

"Hi, this green tea cup is purple, not to be confused with my white tea cup, which is lilac. I've got several black tea cups which are white, and an Indian tea cup made of china, plus of course a Chinese tea cup made in India. Then out the back in my tea cup warehouse are rows and rows of rose hip tea cups in a very hip design featuring red and blue, and a lapsang souchong tea cup which I always sing about in that famous adapted song "Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann" (known popularly in English as "The Happy Wanderer") with those cheerful words 'I love to sing of smoky tea along the mountain track, and as I go, I love to drink a lapsang souchong snack.' Let me not forget about the Russian tea cup which I picked up in France, and the silver needles tea cup made from a pine cone, and one of my favourites - a genmaicha cup... about which I always say "I'm gettin' my cha".

I hope that this has elucidated the vexed question concerning the colouir my green tea cup.

Note: I do also have a tea cup that is green, and is not specific to any particular sort of tea. You can even use it with breakfast tea and no one will insist that you take this beverage only in the a.m."

[countessalmirena]

I would suggest something The Green Tea Cup That Was Purple - and other buying absurdities.