Too bad the bidder is fake TOO! Look at the high bidders history. 5 bids all on the same sellers products and only 1 purchase to the bidders credit. So we have a fake product being bid on by a fake buyer. And ebay is allowing all this to take place even after numerous notifications.
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Too bad the bidder is fake TOO! Look at the high bidders history. 5 bids all on the same sellers products and only 1 purchase to the bidders credit. So we have a fake product being bid on by a fake buyer. And ebay is allowing all this to take place even after numerous notifications.
Just shows you what eBay is becoming. They take 10% of any sale now and let flakey buyers get away with not paying all the time. Out of the auctions I've had in the past six months, half have been won by people with 0 or 1 feedback. Then they just don't pay. You can't do anything about it for a week after the auction finishes and even then it takes forever. Yes you can do a second chance offer thing but then if the original buyer suddenly decided six days later that they do want it then you're the one left in the crapper because you've falsely sold two items when you only had one.
I'm smarting from this even now. I sold an item for ~£120 a week ago Sunday. After numerous attempts to contact the buyer (with 0 feedback, although this went up to 5 feedback for low value purchases over the week), I finally was allowed to put in a no payment dispute. I can't do anything about it until Monday at the earliest though. Then I'll have to relist the item. So that'll be two and a half weeks wasted.
I sold a Black MacBook on eBay at the beginning of the year. Two and a half weeks later and nothing. I listed it again and the same thing happened. I got fed up, waited several months and tried again. Same thing happened. I've just sold it again now and finally got a sale. Of course, it is now worth less than it was when I originally sold it.
Just shows you what eBay is becoming. They take 10% of any sale now and let flakey buyers get away with not paying all the time. Out of the auctions I've had in the past six months, half have been won by people with 0 or 1 feedback. Then they just don't pay. You can't do anything about it for a week after the auction finishes and even then it takes forever. Yes you can do a second chance offer thing but then if the original buyer suddenly decided six days later that they do want it then you're the one left in the crapper because you've falsely sold two items when you only had one.
I'm smarting from this even now. I sold an item for ~£120 a week ago Sunday. After numerous attempts to contact the buyer (with 0 feedback, although this went up to 5 feedback for low value purchases over the week), I finally was allowed to put in a no payment dispute. I can't do anything about it until Monday at the earliest though. Then I'll have to relist the item. So that'll be two and a half weeks wasted.
I sold a Black MacBook on eBay at the beginning of the year. Two and a half weeks later and nothing. I listed it again and the same thing happened. I got fed up, waited several months and tried again. Same thing happened. I've just sold it again now and finally got a sale. Of course, it is now worth less than it was when I originally sold it.
I hear ya brutha! I had a tablet PC on eBay and simply stated "Almost Macbook Air size" and with 1 day left and 5 watchers, eBay pulled it and said I violated their policy! What a crock! Then we have this boob trying to peddle fake Macbook Airs and using fake tactics to drive up the price, and eBay ignores it, even after multiple fraud reports. As you said, this is what Ebay has become...
good old Chinese knock offs
There is a website from China that sells all sorts of supposed "real" items, totally infringing on anyones tradename.
http://www.dhgate.com
Same Mac Air Book as it's called is only $325
http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale+mac+air+netbook/843f03c9-bestmatch-down.html
I really want the "Hello Kitty Cell Phone
http://www.dhgate.com/lady-cartoon-...y-668/p-ff8080811f8e28b6011f9bd6665b024a.html
There is a website from China that sells all sorts of supposed "real" items, totally infringing on anyones tradename.
http://www.dhgate.com
Same Mac Air Book as it's called is only $325
http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale+mac+air+netbook/843f03c9-bestmatch-down.html
I really want the "Hello Kitty Cell Phone
http://www.dhgate.com/lady-cartoon-...y-668/p-ff8080811f8e28b6011f9bd6665b024a.html
Holy god! The winning bid is $2550!!! You would have be a mentally challenged degenerate to buy that!
Holy god! The winning bid is $2550!!! You would have be a mentally challenged degenerate to buy that!
The winning bidder has 1 feedback with 0% positive, so it's most likely a scammer trying to scam another scammer.
So now the seller has 3 more going for $5250 each? lol.
Someone is scamming the seller now. So he has to pay a final value fee unless he wins a dispute right? But he won't pay and eBay will not be able to collect I bet.
Actually, it serves them right. I had a no pay auction and it took me 3 weeks to complete another auction through their "process" and I lost $40 in the final bid.
eBay has big issues.
Someone is scamming the seller now. So he has to pay a final value fee unless he wins a dispute right? But he won't pay and eBay will not be able to collect I bet.
Actually, it serves them right. I had a no pay auction and it took me 3 weeks to complete another auction through their "process" and I lost $40 in the final bid.
eBay has big issues.
Just shows you what eBay is becoming. They take 10% of any sale now and let flakey buyers get away with not paying all the time. Out of the auctions I've had in the past six months, half have been won by people with 0 or 1 feedback. Then they just don't pay. You can't do anything about it for a week after the auction finishes and even then it takes forever. Yes you can do a second chance offer thing but then if the original buyer suddenly decided six days later that they do want it then you're the one left in the crapper because you've falsely sold two items when you only had one.
I'm smarting from this even now. I sold an item for ~£120 a week ago Sunday. After numerous attempts to contact the buyer (with 0 feedback, although this went up to 5 feedback for low value purchases over the week), I finally was allowed to put in a no payment dispute. I can't do anything about it until Monday at the earliest though. Then I'll have to relist the item. So that'll be two and a half weeks wasted.
I sold a Black MacBook on eBay at the beginning of the year. Two and a half weeks later and nothing. I listed it again and the same thing happened. I got fed up, waited several months and tried again. Same thing happened. I've just sold it again now and finally got a sale. Of course, it is now worth less than it was when I originally sold it.
It happened to me as well. I was selling a 1st generation iPhone the buyer with '0' feedback did a buy it now and that was the last we heard from him. Still can't figure that out. The stupid new eBay rules don't allow sellers to leave negative feedback which is weak.
The good thing is, you can set stipulations on who is allowed to bid/buy your item. You can make it so no one with < 10 feedback can do it, and there are a couple of other criteria you can select.
There are still 3 auctions about this fake MBA on eBay, with two ending soon. Someone actually put down $1050 for it!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MacBook-A...le_Laptops?hash=item27ad2755be#ht_1254wt_1167
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MacBook-A...le_Laptops?hash=item27ad275502#ht_1254wt_1167
But if you check the bidder list, same people were bidding on the items all the time. I think they are all this deadbeat seller's other ids and try to get the price go higher.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MacBook-A...le_Laptops?hash=item27ad2755be#ht_1254wt_1167
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-MacBook-A...le_Laptops?hash=item27ad275502#ht_1254wt_1167
But if you check the bidder list, same people were bidding on the items all the time. I think they are all this deadbeat seller's other ids and try to get the price go higher.
I think you can only block sellers with -1 or less. EBay don't want to block new users after all - even if half of new users think eBay is just for fun and they're not actually spending real money.
