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06-11-2015, 04:31 PM | #1 |
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Here's a thread to rant about those little things that dick up the ebay buying experience.
My main gripe right now are those sellers who print a label, mark something as shipped and provide a tracking number days before they actually ship the item. This is happening more and more to me and it's getting ridiculous...especially when you consider I maybe average 1 purchase every 2 months or so. One or two days sitting unshipped (but marked as shipped), I can understand, but 3 or more is pushing it and a week is just stupid. Sellers, here's a tip, if you haven't actually shipped the item, don't mark it as shipped. Simple. |
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06-11-2015, 04:56 PM | #2 |
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I had the post office hand me a receipt with tracking and sit on one for 9 days once. Never will I use that post office again.
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06-11-2015, 05:12 PM | #3 |
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I sold my first item last month and for some reason, when I printed the label, the program automatically marked it as shipped. I don't know if there's a way to change the status, so maybe these people are Noobs to selling on eBay. I feel your frustration though.
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06-11-2015, 05:30 PM | #4 |
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I was thinking it was probably an automated status update linked to printing a label because every purchase I've made over the last year has been marked shipped before actually shipping. Still, false status is worse than no status when you have a have an impatient kid waiting for something to arrive. And I don't get some sellers taking a week or more to ship. It sorta seems like some are marking it as shipped to buy themselves some time, because only after you ask them if the item has actually shipped yet, does the parcel suddenly appear at a post office.
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06-11-2015, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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I did this over the 4th of July weekend and actually got a negative feedback because of it. I asked eBay how I could have gotten the package shipped any sooner than Tuesday when the auction ended at 8pm the Saturday before? (and the post office doesn't do shit on a holiday in my town.)
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06-11-2015, 07:56 PM | #6 |
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Bad sellers. They can easily request a carrier pick up (for free) and leave the package at the doorstep.
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06-11-2015, 08:12 PM | #7 |
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My rants would be:
1. Sellers who leave feedback after the buyer leaves feedback 2. Buyers who request an item be shipped to a different address 3. Sellers who sell one item with 7-day auction and need 7 more days to ship. Why wasn't this packed and ready to go during the auction period? 4. eBay and PayPal spamming members to death for PayPal credit And this only happened once. I bought an item and immediately paid with my PayPal balance. Seller contacts me and says he will ship when the money is in his checking account. He explained to me he had been burned by PayPal before and it wouldn't happen again. I told him that's not my problem and as a buyer had completed my part. Anyway, out of nearly 3000 transactions this was one of a few times I left negative feedback. |
06-12-2015, 12:17 AM | #8 |
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My rants would be:
1. Sellers who leave feedback after the buyer leaves feedback 2. Buyers who request an item be shipped to a different address 3. Sellers who sell one item with 7-day auction and need 7 more days to ship. Why wasn't this packed and ready to go during the auction period? 4. eBay and PayPal spamming members to death for PayPal credit And this only happened once. I bought an item and immediately paid with my PayPal balance. Seller contacts me and says he will ship when the money is in his checking account. He explained to me he had been burned by PayPal before and it wouldn't happen again. I told him that's not my problem and as a buyer had completed my part. Anyway, out of nearly 3000 transactions this was one of a few times I left negative feedback. The only good reason I can see for a seller waiting for the cash to actually hit their checking account is that they're flat broke and don't have the cash for postage. I suspect this is the reality more often than we realize...especially a few years ago after "The Great Recession" hit and people were selling off their shit out of necessity. No what else bugs me? Overreacting sellers who ban you for leaving valid neutral feedback (see my bad sellers post in the bad sellers thread). Goofy shit, indeed. |
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02-17-2018, 05:49 PM | #9 |
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Resurrecting this to discuss a couple of recent instances of what I suspect are either shill bidding or something I guess you could call "malicious bidding." I'm starting to think there are people out there bidding on auctions just to jack up the price for shits and giggles. It sucks we don't know the names of who's bidding against us, but you can sometimes track them by their abbreviated usernames and feedback score. I've run into the same bidder (I think) three times now who jacks up the bidding. The first time I outbid him & overpaid, but the last two times I've let him win and subsequently learned they didn't pay, once being sent a second-chance offer and the other time by seeing the same item (same seller, same pics, discription &etc) back up for auction. Anyone else encounter this or suspect something similar?
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02-17-2018, 06:27 PM | #10 |
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Resurrecting this to discuss a couple of recent instances of what I suspect are either shill bidding or something I guess you could call "malicious bidding." I'm starting to think there are people out there bidding on auctions just to jack up the price for shits and giggles. It sucks we don't know the names of who's bidding against us, but you can sometimes track them by their abbreviated usernames and feedback score. I've run into the same bidder (I think) three times now who jacks up the bidding. The first time I outbid him & overpaid, but the last two times I've let him win and subsequently learned they didn't pay, once being sent a second-chance offer and the other time by seeing the same item (same seller, same pics, discription &etc) back up for auction. Anyone else encounter this or suspect something similar?
I am having a major problem with buyers bidding on my auctions and not paying. I had a buyer snipe items at the last second bidding an extra 1$ and then not paying or returning messages. He did this twice both times on multiple auctions. You then have to wait over a week before ebay closes the case so you can repost the item. After the 2nd time I blocked him and will now block any non payer. I don't understand why people bid on auctions and then not pay. It's not like this guy bid on day 1 and changed his mind on day 7 when the auction ended. The guy bid at the last min. and didn't pay. I am not sure if he was just wanting to get a winners high or just had no impulse control. I wish ebay would do something more about this. Not sure if this malicious bidding is what you are seeing as a buyer.
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