eBay Crack Me Up

[Vincent]

They're so desperate to stop people selling stuff without them getting their cut They screen messages and stop anything with an email addy getting through and, to address peoples complaints that they like to send more photos to prospective bidders, they have allowed pics to be sent with messages. What they didn't think of was that you can take a photo of your email address
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[lllN30lll]

I noticed the email address thing the other day, didn't stop me doing it like dave dot bourne at hotmail dot com.
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[Vracktal]

myaddress (at) mailprovider (dot) com

*shrug*
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[J.M.]

Last time someone sent me an email across they just sent their email over about 4 messages.

If their fees were less extortionate I'd care less about it.

I've sold 2 vehicles on there now and I've only paid the listing fees. Sod paying listing fees... item fees and paypal feels...
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[Vincent]

[instigator]

There is another way...

Once the deal is done, just agree with the buyer to 'cancel the transaction' through eBay. Thus, you can still leave feedback but the seller gets their fees back.

I do this on any auction over £50. Which equates to perhaps 20 or so this year already. As soon as they close that loophole, I stop using eBay.

[Hetzer]

And why would a buyer agree to cancel a transaction and leave himself without any comeback if the seller turns out to be a cock?
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[The Artist]

eBay just keeps getting worse.

I only sell stuff that has to be picked up and paid in cash.

Buying from businesses on there is fine but for the average person selling, it is expensive and you can get ripped off easily.

Make sure you get signed for postage and ideally photos of the item pre-dispatch.

[Vincent]

It's a good place for buying things that'll come in handy.............even if you never use 'em.
I picked up a "Falcon Nibbler", (queue paintshop picture of man eating bird of prey), for a tenner last week....never even heard of 'em before eBay. Will I ever use it.........probably not now I've got one

Aye..............it all depends what you're buying/selling I guess.
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[instigator]

[Vincent]

A lot of folks pay "cash on collection" too...............so they can see what they're buying I guess.

If they turn up and don't like it.......and the seller's agreed to cancel the sale.....'seller hasn't a leg to stand on either.
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[-Matt-]

Nearly entirely stopped using ebay the past year for similar reasons. I've got an old pay as you go phone i rarely use which i used to just post the number of on the ad's and tell people to contact me via phone/text if they wanted me to avoid the buggering about with ebay messaging/filtering.

After factoring postage cost, fee's, chance of hassle and shit from buyer etc its barely ever worth flogging anything on there now days I find. For bike and car bits i've resorted to just going on specific-vehicle forums and trying to flog them there mostly

[Polarbear]

I'll only use ebay for classified ads now.

I'll still buy, but it's usually from traders. I can't remember when I last bought an auction item from there.
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[Skudd]

I use e-bay and haven't really had any issues, perhaps something hasn't been as mint as I would consider mint to be, but I haven't had anything really bad. I have only ever bought from e-bay though.
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[Dischord]

You get charged to end listings now aswell, so once you've made a deal via ebay messages and go to close your listing they charge you (if you do it more than once per calendar month) crafty buggers.
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[Ichy]

[Dischord]

[Rogerborg]

I'd rather just hand my wallet to pikeys than sell anything on eBay.
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[thx1138]

gave up with it years ago, too much agro

sell stuff on message boards sometimes still, seems to work

[Ichy]

[G]

I've had all the above techniques (at the top) stopped.

I had one message where I think I used the word email and said replace the at with a plus symbol (they wanted to send me their email).

It stopped that, but let it through when I spelt it att.

[thx1138]

I used to use ebay a lot. Used to regularly list cash only on collection for tastier items, and refuse all pleadings and moans about couriers and Billpoint (in days of yore before paypal), and do all right, but they kept moving the goalposts, to the point where it was almost impossible to list most items as cash only on collection.

Best ever score was some wargaming stuff, sold loads of it, one lot I paid £80 for in a real world auction and sold for £1,550.00

but the rot started to set in when they introduced the shops, oh and also templates, you needed to know just a basic bit of HTML once, the riff raff spoiled it too.

but all in all, I made a few quid back in the day

[Vincent]

^^ Were you on eBay when it started? I bet there were some good deals on there then - before dealers and collectors started to sweep all the items.

Best sale I had on there was probably a box of about 500 vintage postcards that I pulled out of a skip when doing a house clearance - They were all 19th century and I listed them individually. Only about 30 didn't sell and some fetched £20 and up.

Another one was when I sold a punk rock memorabilia collection for a mate of mine. She had hundreds of original badges and some went for quite a bit considering. A lot of them went to Japan in the end. Also got £130 for a ticket stub from when Bob Marley played the London Lyceum.
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[dodsi]

Ebay can suck my balls. Not sold anything on there for years...