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I've raised a case with eBay, so should hopefully get money back, but I'm disappointed, as I had managed to get all the ones I wanted from him. :-(
...er, must've been someone else. Confusion.
Thing is; stuff like this DOES happen and if that seller was honest about things; he would have communicated that with you and his other buyers. It's an unfortunate situation. I'm more than sure you'll get your money back. If you were here in the States, I'd sell you a set. I have an extra one since a buyer reneged on our deal.
@JudgeChuck - the disappearing from ebay, removing all feedback etc is absolutely indicative of a scammer - best thing to do is to go through eBay, but if you paid via Paypal even more effective is to actually call them up, they were incredibly helpful.
Two weeks later, nothing. I filed a claim with FedEx for a lost package, and about ten days later I get a letter saying they have denied the claim. So I got on a chat box with a FedEx employee to help me. The person understood nothing I was saying, and said I should file a police report if the package went missing. I told them the whole situation but it went over his or her head. Asked for a manager. After waiting at least twenty minutes, I got a manager. Thankfully she could help me. Once I showed her the email confirming the package never made it to my house, I was refunded.
After many weeks of waiting, over an hour and a half wasted at customer service and chatting with them... I got my 20 bucks back. These situations do happen. Between this and a Lego package going missing (and another dialing to deliver since they "couldn't find my apartment") all this year, I think it's driver error.
Could've had a V8!
The retail displays came, 1 was broken.. the seller said tough it was done in delivery, and I didn’t have any comeback as it was a private sale...
Best part is eBay Germany then stopped my account for dealing outside of eBay !
I was tangentially involved in model railroading, and some folks just thought their beat-up garbage was pure gold. I actually thank eBay for making 'hobby' stuff more ubiquitous.
I live in a neighborhood where the house prices keep rising, and I see people do this with their house 🙄. They go to the bother of putting it on the market at some inflated price, then take it off again several months later if they didn’t get any action.
I did get an iPad Shuffle in the early '00's. But that's due my Diamond Rio MP3 player repeatedly crapping out.
But whatever, that's not the point of this discussion.
I'm not sure what the point of offering an item that you really don't want to sell. Unless you're using eBay as an inventory management tool. (And if that's the case, why are you using eBay?)
They do. It just so happens that there are plenty of buyers who don't know/care about paying a reasonable price.
I think (not sure if the rules have changed) but ebay/PayPal didn't care about the lies but since I had proof of delivery I was covered as the seller. They closed the case in my favour. I banned the person from buying and sent a message to tell them I found out their lies!
(And if so...stop telling porkies!)
As a buyer, I generally don't offer to buy anything unless I can collect the same day, or next day at the latest.
Oh, I love it when you agree on a price and then when they come to pick it up, they say "I only have $X.XX on me; can we just do that? I always say: "You you have PayPal, Cash App, Venmo?" If they say no, I come back with "It's a shame that you drove all the way out here wasting money on gas." Most of the time, they miraculously come up with the money.