SON OF A BITCH!

[ATARIPITBULL]

It had been a while since I had sold anything on ebay and It looks as if no one here is interested in Atari 2800 items, so I am selling some on ebay and I had a buyer for my 2800 sales brochure - ad ( 8237669228 ) that came from Japan and I had a buyer use the buy it now option, but he was just kicked off of ebay for non-payments, well I just emailed ebay and asked them to re-list my auction for free, there is no reason I should have to pay again to relist since this TURD screwed me & others on ebay!!!!!!!

 

Edited November 29, 2005 by ATARIPITBULL

[+remowilliams]

Dude, I recently sold a laptop - listed for well over a grand. I haven't sold anything in quite a while on ebay either.

 

I put it up and it got BINed by a scam account within four hours. Relisted it, and BAM again BINed by another scam account within hours.

 

I finally had to restrict the listing to paypal account holders only to keep it from getting scam BINed again.

 

So then I have to fight for some $100 odd fee credits. And I get form letters from ebay about the fraud, etc.

 

EBAY SUCKS ASS.

[sku_u]

EBAY SUCKS ASS.

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That pretty much sums up my feelings on Ebay.

[jay2068]

I sold my XBOX 360 on ebay on a three day auction and someone BIN'd it with an hour to go and then sent me an email saying he did it by mistake.. The jerk should have to pay the price.... I relisted for 1 day and didn't make as much as I could have.

 

Ebay sucks sometimes.. but overall I have been happy with it.

[+remowilliams]

Ebay sucks sometimes.. but overall I have been happy with it.

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I've been VERY lucky with ebay so far. 99% of transactions mostly buy, some sell have been nice and easy. But this has to do with the sellers/buyers not ebay.

 

The problem with ebay is the second you need help. For any reason. Then you're screwed.

[chuckwalla]

Ebay does suck (mostly ).

Another example of a great idea abused and beaten.

I got tons of bargains about 7 - 8 years ago before it became the launching pad for shipping profiteers, scam BSers, and cheap garage sale junk.

[shadow460]

What aggravates me is that stuff you should be able to find locally at garage sales, flea markets, and thrift shops now winds up on ebay instead.

You are denied the opportunity to get a good deal since instead of maybe ten thousand people looking at a particular item (and most of them not paying attention to it anyway), now the whole world gawks at and drools over it.

 

There just isn't anything left noe to sell in a yard sale that's worth anything.

I remember going to garage sales all summer, and the same old story, house after house--nothing but junk.

I have a lot better luck finding a small treasure in a thrift shop--and that isn't saying much.

Lotsa bikes get sold in yard sales, but there is no telling what's broke on them. That goes for anything with a circuit or moving part inside it.

 

The other thing I hate is when someone (like me) offers an absurd price for something that's almost worthless. I'd snipe 2600 Combat with a hundred bucks, too, but it's irritating when that happens to me. Oh well. Win some, lose some.

[jerrykurtz]

I've been thinking about this problem too, and the resolution I come up with is that Google should start an auction and payment site instead of trying to beat Microsoft at Microsoft's game.

 

Google is an internet company -- why the hell do they want to piss with installed software on people's computers (Office knock-offs, etc).

 

Could you imagine the kick in the groin to eBay if Google started an auction site? eBay would be forced to get their sh*t together, lower some fees, and become a good site again...

 

Maybe that's just my dream?

[jerry32]

EBAY SUCKS ASS.

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That pretty much sums up my feelings on Ebay.

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I STRONGLY AGREE

[Mendon]

Just one of my complaints against eBay: someone screws up your auction by not paying and you have to wait weeks to settle the matter. For example, some jerk screws your auction over and you don't get paid. Now eBay makes you wait a week to file a NPB complaint and then wait more time while they send Emails and such to the non-paying bidder. You can't relist your item until eBay runs its complaint procedure fully because the NPB just **might** come thru with payment after a couple eBay Emails (though this has never happended to me) and you'll have to have the item available to ship to them. So you sit there, not having the money from your auction and not knowing when or how it will be settled. If eBay rules in your favor, you then finally get to relist and pay a 2nd time for listing fee's, though they promise to refund you if it sells the 2nd time.

 

And then if you send a letter of complaint to eBay regarding its shoddy customer service, you'll of course get their friendly automated response telling you to go have sex with Roseann Barr.

 

Glad I took the 12 step approach to quitting.

 

Mendon