View Full Version : Ebay Sellers GRRRRRRrrrr
Why why why.
There are just some stupif people on ebay.
I bought a set of USD forks and they were said to have seals in excelent condition, i get the darn forks with dust seals that are falling apart around the edges and lower fork corrosion.
I also got a set of GSXR disks that were said to be totaly fine and lo and behold the inner carrier is visably bent on one disk, no way that is going on my bike for me to crash again.
Its just silly how some bikers stuff others up.
Tell me about it, i had a hoax bid on my old mobile phone, tried to give the next 2 highest bidders a second chance offer and they're not interested. Now I've got to re list it again (at cost) and probably won't get as much as i could have :evil:
At least you can send it back :roll:
Peter Henry
29-08-06, 08:35 PM
TSM..I really feel for you here mate. However there is nothiong at all to say that the seller was in fact a biker. There are plenty of people that know parts off certain models will always sell. Therefore scouring scrap yards and buying insurance right off's to split and sell is quite lucrative business. :?
Well good news, the guy with the disks says he will refund the money and has not asked any questions. Now i am just waiting on the forks issue.
If you start up a despute paypal will freeze his account the you will get a responce from him :twisted:
mudge32
30-08-06, 08:34 AM
If you start up a despute paypal will freeze his account the you will get a responce from him :twisted:
Hee hee!! I set up a dispute on Paypal with an ebayshop after, not receiving the goods and no answers to my emails. Soon sent the items with major apologies after he couldn't do ANY buisness from his ebay or external shop websites :twisted: :twisted:
The phrase Caveat Emptor should always prevail with ebay. Maybe its just me but Id presume the worst of people than presume theyre telling the truth. :?
kwak zzr
30-08-06, 01:42 PM
i just sold a hard drive to a guy in london (nw6) for £14 and he said he aint had it?
now i work for the po sorting office in wolverhampton and i packaged it and put it in the NW6 bag myself so i know it got there :? but how do i stand now? do i have to give him a refund or tell him to toss off?
i just sold a hard drive to a guy in london (nw6) for £14 and he said he aint had it?
now i work for the po sorting office in wolverhampton and i packaged it and put it in the NW6 bag myself so i know it got there :? but how do i stand now? do i have to give him a refund or tell him to toss off?
I'm just wondering how do you know it got to the final destination (buyer's house) without a signature?
454697819
30-08-06, 01:57 PM
i just sold a hard drive to a guy in london (nw6) for £14 and he said he aint had it?
now i work for the po sorting office in wolverhampton and i packaged it and put it in the NW6 bag myself so i know it got there :? but how do i stand now? do i have to give him a refund or tell him to toss off?
send everythign recorded...
sadly thats all you can do...
least then you can get proof!
i just sold a hard drive to a guy in london (nw6) for £14 and he said he aint had it?
now i work for the po sorting office in wolverhampton and i packaged it and put it in the NW6 bag myself so i know it got there :? but how do i stand now? do i have to give him a refund or tell him to toss off?
No, ALL you do KNOW is that it got to the London sorting office.
From there you have no idea if some scrote working part time there nicked it, whether it was delivered and dumped [as has been known by some posties IIRC someone had bike bits lobbed over their garden gate before], or whether the buyer is trying it on.
If you think hes lying, hold back. But your belief in the PO doesnt reflect most peoples I think. Ive lost count the number of times things Ive sent have gone missing. Frankly the sooner their monopoly on letters ends the better. Maybe some competition may actually realise how dissatisfied people really are with the mail service these days.
kwak zzr
30-08-06, 04:53 PM
people are already posting letters with other company's lynw, we at the royal mail have seen a big drop in letter mail in the last 6months, only one big customer (lloyds tsb) have come back to us :? as for the rest we'll have to wait and see.
Yea and your right i do trust the service too much :roll: i up to now in 18years of service have never had an item go missing this is my first, ive told the buyer to contact NW6 sorting office because of the new prices it may have been surcharged <<< this is another of the publics problems and rightly so! i think the price increase and surcharge costs are ridiculous.
northwind
30-08-06, 05:54 PM
i just sold a hard drive to a guy in london (nw6) for £14 and he said he aint had it?
now i work for the po sorting office in wolverhampton and i packaged it and put it in the NW6 bag myself so i know it got there :? but how do i stand now? do i have to give him a refund or tell him to toss off?
Every time I sell an item I say "Insurance is available at additional cost but is highly recommended. Seller takes no responsibility for items lost or damaged in the post if you do not choose insurance".
However, if it was standard parcel and you've got a receipt for it, you can claim for it. Or did you sneakily put it in the bag without paying :wink:
people are already posting letters with other company's lynw, we at the royal mail have seen a big drop in letter mail in the last 6months, only one big customer (lloyds tsb) have come back to us :? as for the rest we'll have to wait and see.
Isnt that for business mail? Im not aware for Joe Public we have an alternative. :?:
Yea and your right i do trust the service too much :roll: i up to now in 18years of service have never had an item go missing this is my first, ive told the buyer to contact NW6 sorting office because of the new prices it may have been surcharged <<< this is another of the publics problems and rightly so! i think the price increase and surcharge costs are ridiculous.
My dad was a postman back in the 70s through to his ill health retirement around 1978. To get the job he basically had to go through a vetting procedure similar to what Ive just been through. Now it seems like there are no checks and the standard of staff in some places leaves a lot to be desired. The number of cases reported of staff sacked for theft is on the increase.
The post office really hasnt helped itself in the PR department by these surcharges being applied - though those on imports arent really their fault - they are costs incurred for storage for HMRC and repacking.
I know its not all bad, but having had items go missing Im not impressed and anything important I pay that extra to have it signed for now.
kwak zzr
30-08-06, 07:01 PM
at mo it is just business mail.
hey northwind i wish i could sneak it in without paying but i dont have that job perk, if i take it to the po counters they take the parcel off you and its in there hands from there so i usually use stamps and put it in myself :? and thats the trouble no recipit :? a standard parcel get £30 insurance.
kwak zzr
30-08-06, 07:03 PM
hey lynw you are right i had to go through that vetting procedure but now they dont bother so yea it is there own fault. :wink:
Blue_SV650S
30-08-06, 07:42 PM
I find eBay a total lottery for bike bits. Got some exactly as described, got some far from it …
Worst so far is 2 wheels I bought. ‘Slight dent in rim’ got it, span it up … it was like a popadom!!! Second wheel ‘Immaculate’ it had been resprayed and had a disk on it had obviously seen a big visit to Mr Tarmac!! … so badly so I couldn’t see how the wheel wasn’t destroyed in the process!!! The seller refused to enlighten my as to the history of the wheel, if he had simply said the disk was off a different wheel then I would have been prepared to use the wheel, but as he wouldn’t give me a straight answer, I presumed the worst and never used it.
I also bought a set of carbs, when I opend them up the insides were so badly corroded it looked like it had been sat at the bottom of the ocean for 20 years!!! :roll:
That’s about £200 of cr4p in total!!
So you are not the only one if that makes you feel any better?
The feedback score is about your only window to honesty, but even that isn't a guarantee!
Blue_SV650S
03-09-06, 06:15 PM
Just been stung by another eBay bandit ... another £40 up my shirt! :cry:
21QUEST
03-09-06, 06:31 PM
Just been stung by another eBay bandit ... another £40 up my shirt! :cry:
Ah... not good. What was the problem this time ?
Cheers
Ben
northwind
03-09-06, 06:45 PM
I've only been stung once by an Ebay seller, and I put the fear of god into him by claiming to be a policeman :oops: But then, I've probably passed up a hundred bargains because I got some paranoid sniff of a ripoff. If anything feels wrong about it at all, I just don't bid, which seems to help. i bought half my bike off Ebay, all my guitars...
Blue_SV650S
03-09-06, 06:48 PM
Ah... not good. What was the problem this time ?
...
It was advertised as straight when it came of bike, but said it had been stored … basically implying that some storage damage may (or may not) have taken place in storage … fair enough …
So I expected scratches etc, but nope, totally Donald ducked/Unusable!!! I am convinced the damage was done before being sent through the mail, but I am sure it didn’t help that it was totally inappropriately packaged!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ……… ](*,)
Blue_SV650S
03-09-06, 06:51 PM
I've only been stung once by an Ebay seller, and I put the fear of god into him by claiming to be a policeman :oops: But then, I've probably passed up a hundred bargains because I got some paranoid sniff of a ripoff. If anything feels wrong about it at all, I just don't bid, which seems to help. i bought half my bike off Ebay, all my guitars...
Much of the stuff I have had has been roughly as described, but I have had a few bad experiences too. I tend to take the viewpoint that I never bid more than I am prepared to loose in a total loss situation … still doesn’t mean it doesn't sting when you get bitten!!! :cry:
Still trying to get money back on the forks which need new dust & oil seals. The guy beleaves that i am being unreasonable to ask £45 back on final price of £185 for the new seals and oil, plus i need to tap out one of the mudguard lugs as there is a fully corroded bolt in one. He is trying on that he said 'no refunds' in the advert, which is not there (ebay dont allow ad mods after a sale) and even if it was the item was not described correctly. I have said to him that if he mentioned that new seals were needed/a little corrosion on fork legs/lugs are corroded he would have never got the sale price as it was (he mentioned seals were excelent condition).
Ok, i have asked a tad back but i know he will prolly batter the refund down a little.
21QUEST
03-09-06, 08:40 PM
Still trying to get money back on the forks which need new dust & oil seals. The guy beleaves that i am being unreasonable to ask £45 back on final price of £185 for the new seals and oil, plus i need to tap out one of the mudguard lugs as there is a fully corroded bolt in one. He is trying on that he said 'no refunds' in the advert, which is not there (ebay dont allow ad mods after a sale) and even if it was the item was not described correctly. I have said to him that if he mentioned that new seals were needed/a little corrosion on fork legs/lugs are corroded he would have never got the sale price as it was (he mentioned seals were excelent condition).
Ok, i have asked a tad back but i know he will prolly batter the refund down a little.
Was it just the forks you bought off him or including yokes? How did you pay again?£45 is not at all unreasonable IMO in this instance.
Personally I'll be more inclined to just get my money back provided there is a good chance of that. You can't miss something that obvious :x
Cheers
Ben
Still trying to get money back on the forks which need new dust & oil seals. The guy beleaves that i am being unreasonable to ask £45 back on final price of £185 for the new seals and oil, plus i need to tap out one of the mudguard lugs as there is a fully corroded bolt in one. He is trying on that he said 'no refunds' in the advert, which is not there (ebay dont allow ad mods after a sale) and even if it was the item was not described correctly. I have said to him that if he mentioned that new seals were needed/a little corrosion on fork legs/lugs are corroded he would have never got the sale price as it was (he mentioned seals were excelent condition).
Ok, i have asked a tad back but i know he will prolly batter the refund down a little.
Was it just the forks you bought off him or including yokes? How did you pay again?£45 is not at all unreasonable IMO in this instance.
Personally I'll be more inclined to just get my money back provided there is a good chance of that. You can't miss something that obvious :x
Cheers
Ben
It was just for the forks. Someone asked me to get the forks and fit them for him. I would prolly send them back but the cost is high to post and the guy that bought them realy needs them. 750 forks are quite hard to get on ebay and they are a good upgrade for the KYB forks on a TL.
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