Scamming scammers

[Rogerborg]

[Bubbs]

What kind of freebies are we talking about here? Anything actually worth getting?
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[Rogerborg]

Trinkets, mostly. Electronics, small bits of sports equipment. It's not a career that I'd actively advocate.
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[Falco]

I find myself incapable of condemning this behaviour. I haven't been caught out myself but I can well imagine how irritating it is and my sympathy for misleading about expected delivery dates is pretty low.

Ebay won't change (because why should they? They still get paid and people lack the gumption to take their business elsewhere)

The Chinese sellers won't change (because if every member of BCF went Borg on them 24/7 they likely wouldn't even notice...monetarily at least since a £2.00 item will contain 10p of materials and 3p of labour (at Chinese prices), maybe the ratings bombing would sting).

TBH the most confusing aspect of this is that Roger is annoyed at the time these scammers force him to waste and the response is to.....spend even more time hounding the sellers? Good for the blood pressure I suppose....
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[Rogerborg]

Stinging and negging them is recreation time.

What's particularly amusing is the amount of time and effort they'll put into bawwing about a negative. I've even had irate and barely comprehensible phone calls over negatives for tuppence-ha'penny items.

What exactly do they expect to happen after they refuse to resolve a "not received" other than with the standard "Dear friend, you wait long time more then fivestar us very important."
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Falco]

[Hetzer]

[Fisty]

[Rogerborg]

Secret tracking, eh?

I did actually get something from Chinascamz which was tracked to the extent that eBay automatically marked it as received when it eventually showed up. Spoilsports.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[M.C]

Chinese levers on a Hayabusa, what could possibly go wrong.

[Fisty]

[Rogerborg]

To be fair, I actually did have a Chineesy grip-lock get knocked back by some Dutch X-Rayist. I have no idea what he thought he was looking at. Maybe some sort of genital mangling device.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[M.C]

Bit of a hijack but it came up earlier, currently eyeing up something from China land, just under £18 (the old limit ), worried about getting hit with an £8 fee to collect 30 odd pence or whatever it'll be.

What do?

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Never arrived if it gets held up, innit.
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[M.C]

I was thinking I could not collect it if there are fees and shit, but I quite want the item. No response from the seller about whether he'd mark it as a gift, or I assume they could mark it as a £14.99 value.

[Rogerborg]

I can't remember the last time I had anything from China-China-China that wasn't marked as either a gift, or with the real tuppence-ha'penny value.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[M.C]

Sent the seller another message with a google translation about marking it as £15 or less. Got an 'ok sir' back so I think we're all good

[Fisty]

[M.C]

Is this the random eBay moan thread now... good

Ordered something advertised as for my phone, it didn't work (I assume they listed random models), so I returned it to the seller. Had to chase up my refund, they asked for proof of postage, told them I used the pre-paid label they sent me and they refunded me.

Anyhoo my question; the seller cancelled the order at the same time and now I can't leave feedback? I wasn't going to neg' them until the refund stuff, seems like they were hoping I'd forget about it.

[Fisty]

money refunded.

Angel wants me to send her £12.99gpb for postage.
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[Rogerborg]

[Fisty]

[Rogerborg]

[andyscooter]

Yet I can't get a refund for a 30_ quid amp that didn't turn up from the uk
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[M.C]