I listed a sealed 30th Gold C3P0 and some person kept emailing and asking how he can find one in a sealed boxed set. Needless to say, he never placed a Buy It Now offer after I asked if he was interested. Then I finally received a decent offer that I accepted. The UK buyer never paid after asking me twice if shipping will require a signature.

I won an open UCS Vader Tie Defender and the seller doesn't want to claim my payment via PayPal. Although feedback was low, his email is legit. I just sent him one.

My son wanted a Batman 1 Batmobile so I won one, Auction stated complete except for the road block. 16 minor elements ended up missing from both vehicles and seller shipped the set in the original lego box (wasn't listed in the auction) w/ supermarket brown paper around it. Never the less, the box was a pleasant surprise.

Feel free to also post any eBay feedback horror stories.

Anytime someone calls something a "figurine", especially a minifigure, I want to put an icepick in my temple.

I flipped a bunch of Hummels I got at a yard sale and described each and every one of them as a "figurine". I also routinely refer to mini figures as "figurines" when negotiating the purchase or sale price of a bulk lot.

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When people start undercutting on eBay and it drives prices down. Keep the prices up people!

Think we need to setup an eBay sucks thread.

 

I posted this originally in daily deals... but think it deserves it's own thread.

 

Long story short, I ordered two of the TRU giftcards from my one and only ebay account on 10/22.

 

Got the ban hammer from ebay.  Call customer service and they said they would file a petition to correct and get back to me within 72hrs.

 

Way past 72hrs and guess what?  No response, called back and got a CS supervisor...  claimed my account is linked to someone else who purchased gc.  I was in violation of their rules.   They have "strong proof"

Crap, I work at a large corporation... what do they think we each have individual IPs?   

 

I am so pissed off... they even canceled the order for the TRU gc, though of course havent returned my money.

 

I can't wait to see Brick Classifieds up and running... too bad it's just Lego.

 

Really need competition vs Ebay.  Unfortunately craigslist isnt it.

Sorry for my rant.   From other sites, seems like ebay likes banning / restricting accounts.  

I've heard of 3 other people falsely accused by ebay of violating their policy on this TRU deal.

 

 

I am mostly with you. I am killing probably 75% of my business on Ebay after Christmas. Love the site, but hate the people that run it.

Think we need to setup an eBay sucks thread.

 

I posted this originally in daily deals... but think it deserves it's own thread.

 

Long story short, I ordered two of the TRU giftcards from my one and only ebay account on 10/22.

 

Got the ban hammer from ebay.  Call customer service and they said they would file a petition to correct and get back to me within 72hrs.

 

Way past 72hrs and guess what?  No response, called back and got a CS supervisor...  claimed my account is linked to someone else who purchased gc.  I was in violation of their rules.   They have "strong proof"

Crap, I work at a large corporation... what do they think we each have individual IPs?   

 

I am so pissed off... they even canceled the order for the TRU gc, though of course havent returned my money.

 

I can't wait to see Brick Classifieds up and running... too bad it's just Lego.

 

Really need competition vs Ebay.  Unfortunately craigslist isnt it.

Sorry for my rant.   From other sites, seems like ebay likes banning / restricting accounts.  

I've heard of 3 other people falsely accused by ebay of violating their policy on this TRU deal.

 

post your ebay problems here.

 

http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/4758-are-the-fruitcakes-running-rampant-on-ebay-lately-something-in-the-water/?hl=fruit

any ebay pros here? I need help with something (via PM).

any ebay pros here? I need help with something (via PM).

Pm sent. I'm free.

Just a frog is better but she may charge.

Yeah thanks everybody, I got several answers now but I guess it's something only me and the seller can solve... o.O

 

It's hard to lose money because of stupid mistakes... But better to learn now with small damage than later with big damage...

Someone just sent me a best offer - $6,000.00 for 2 10230 mini modular sets. Should I horrify them by accepting?

Please do....

When does the $600 in fees hit your account?  It will get reversed but not sure you want to deal with that hassle unless they do not charge your account until it is paid (I've never looked at that in all the hundreds of my sales).

 

I would message them and not accept.  

It gets charged when the sale his through. The charge would get disputed and censored through eBay in which they would credit the account the final sales charge

Yeah that is what I thought I don't think I'd want the hassle of getting it credited out for a joke in return unless the offer is legit (message them) hahaha

If he were to get paid, I'd be more worried........

If he were to get paid, I'd be more worried........

 

 

Touch

Maybe they thought they were getting a true modular home. They wanted two to make a double-wide.

That's what you get when you don't check the pictures.

"But, Claudine, it looked a lot bigger in da picshures."

Yes, the fees would be charged to your account but not billed/deducted until the next billing cycle. It would be cleared up by then, but still not worth the hassle.

So I am selling off some polybags, got into a bit of a price war with someone doing the same. Don't need a ton of profit, and I'm paying my kids to package/ship.....however.... my competition has been at "last one" for like three days, and sold his "last one" three times in the last hour

I don't get the trick, what am I missing?

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Just be patient - Do you really need to sell it for as little as possible?

 

If the seller is using best offer - he can be updating his quantity available, before he accepts it.

If the seller is using best offer - he can be updating his quantity available, before he accepts it.

Hmm. Good idea.

He just have buy it now I believe

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Depending on what software you use you can have it reload the inventory when it reaches 1.  It would more than likely be automated software as its very hard to monitor the inventory enough so that you don't sell out.  There's some pretty advanced programs out there.

EBay also just released an option to "retain 0" listings. So you can let it go to zero and change it back to 1 multiple times. If that's your game.

EBay also just released an option to "retain 0" listings. So you can let it go to zero and change it back to 1 multiple times. If that's your game.

 

That is very interesting! I am afraid my reputation as being somewhat knowledgeable about eBay is going to suffer as time goes on - eBay is definitely taking a back seat in our future business plans and I won't have the time or need to stay cutting edge.

 

This new option is good news, though, if it allows for keeping your search placement.

That is very interesting! I am afraid my reputation as being somewhat knowledgeable about eBay is going to suffer as time goes on - eBay is definitely taking a back seat in our future business plans and I won't have the time or need to stay cutting edge.

 

This new option is good news, though, if it allows for keeping your search placement.

Its almost impossible to keep up with everything nowadays.  They change stuff daily and you can have different views and options just on different accounts.  One account will look totally different from another.  Makes consistency a little hard.