Ebay warning

[Wardy]

A word of warning to anyone about to advertise a bike for sale on Ebay. My recent auction resulted in non-payment by both the "winning" bidder and the second bidder. When I investigated further they both (annabelm21 and hazelb1234) appear to be young girls with no interest in cycling stuff - at least from their record with Ebay - and obviously with no intention of paying. Quite why they should choose to do this to someone selling a bike is anybody's guess.

 

[funnymummy]

Cheers Wardy, i've got a couple of bikes listed at the mo, I'll watch out for them!
And some folk on Ebay really do bid just to cause havoc - i've had it happen before x

 

[Soltydog]

I've not really had a problem withnon payers over the years, until recently. I've had 2 non paying winners this year now

 

[Deb13b]

I don't understand why people do stuff like that. I sell a few bits n pieces on eBay, mostly books and card decks, nothing expensive, but I'm always paranoid until someone pays up. I hate auction wreckers 

 

[addictfreak]

I was outbid on a bike the other day. I ended up being given a second chance offer by the seller.

The idiot who originally won the bidding clearly had not read the sellers instructions. It was collect only! He wanted it delivered to the Irish Republic.

I got the bike in the end, but probably ended up paying slightly more than I had intended. Im a happy bunny at the end of the day.

 

[Wardy]

Funny (not really!) thing is, the "winning" bidder made several bids. She was the starting bid and she made three further bids over three days, so it was no accidental action. I could imagine someone making a bid accidentally perhaps, but to keep up the action to the end of the auction is something else.

 

[NorrisCole]

Why would anyone do this?!

 

[Wardy]

Why would anyone do this?!

Well, I had a theory that she was probably put up to it. At least one "interested party" wanted me to end the auction and agree a price but I refused as there were several other watchers, so maybe there's been someone with an infantile attitude behind it all. I just cannot imagine how a young girl who had no interest in cycling would choose that particular site unless she was egged on by someone.

 

[MLC]

It happens unfortunately. The amount of silly excuses you get from people who win beggars belief

We had one once whose excuse was grandaughter won the item at £ 50 but said she only meant to put in a £ 5.00 bid. We knew that one was BS as the item had a starting price of £9.99. Really annoying as we second chanced it and got silly excuses from about 2 others. Maybe they had an item of the same ilk for sale at the same time and just wanted to sabotage ours.

It is frustrating but best just ignore it and not let it get to you. Blow off steam on here (as you have done already of course).

 

[funnymummy]

Well, I had a theory that she was probably put up to it. At least one "interested party" wanted me to end the auction and agree a price but I refused as there were several other watchers, so maybe there's been someone with an infantile attitude behind it all. I just cannot imagine how a young girl who had no interest in cycling would choose that particular site unless she was egged on by someone.

I sold an item last year, I had contected a couple of courier prior to listing it & they both wanted packed dimesnions & weight before giving me a quote, So I decided to chnace it selling as Collcetion only item
7 day auction, 10 watchers, 6 bids - Day before it ends I got a request from a chap 300 miles away wanting me get courier costs for him, I explained the problem I had, had said that didn't want to buy a load of packing just to get it sized & weighed when it was obvioulsy going to sell locally.
He bid on the item, then I had bids from two other people, for some reason I was suspiscious so did a 'member search' and found they lived less then a mile from him I was livid & I contacted Ebay immediatly to say I wanted the auction cancelled, but by the time they had responded the auction was over & he won, he told Ebay he had a friend who lived locally to me who was going to collect it for him, so I had to wait for the 7 days with his so called friend a no show then go bcak to Ebay, who agreed to cancel the sale, in the mean time I offered another bidder a 2nd chance offer...she refused saying that she thought something dodgy wa going off & accused me of trying to fix the auction & put the price up, she even complained to Ebay, who sided with me - Phew!
But some folk are just twisted

 

[Wardy]

Gad FunnyMum! I guess I've been pretty lucky so far then! And MLC, a good hard bike ride works wonders too!

 

[fossyant]

Not had any trouble so far - just sold two bikes, both very genuine buyers and lovely people. A guy travelled about 40 miles with his 3 year old daughter to pick up my daughter's old bike. He and daughter were well chuffed.

Had a local couple pick up my missus old bike last night -both really nice folk and I put it in the car for them, removed front wheel, showed them how to refit the canti brakes, and gave them one of those 'spanner' things you get when you get a new bike.

Some right idiots out there I will admit though, although we fell lucky with these two !

 

[DrSquirrel]

I was outbid on a bike the other day. I ended up being given a second chance offer by the seller.

The idiot who originally won the bidding clearly had not read the sellers instructions. It was collect only! He wanted it delivered to the Irish Republic.

I got the bike in the end, but probably ended up paying slightly more than I had intended. Im a happy bunny at the end of the day.

Have to be double careful as the "winner" might have been a shill bidder. It's always worth researching bid history of these people.

 

[sabian92]

I've had it happen to me too.

I was selling a bass guitar on behalf of a mate - £500, so not cheap. Some dick in North Birmingham (90-ish miles from me in Cheshire) bid with seconds to go, and with all my auctions I send an invoice. I gave him 5 days before sending him a message that said basically not to be rude but the quicker you pay me, the quicker I can post it off. He never paid me and deleted his eBay account because according to eBay (who he contacted before he deleted his account), he "couldn't afford it".

6 months later - It's still in my bedroom. Total f**cking peanut. Cost me 40 quid in fees as well because it was technically a sale, even though he didn't pay, and eBay wouldn't refund them. Bellends.

 

[DrSquirrel]

I've had it happen to me too.

I was selling a bass guitar on behalf of a mate - £500, so not cheap. Some dick in North Birmingham (90-ish miles from me in Cheshire) bid with seconds to go, and with all my auctions I send an invoice. I gave him 5 days before sending him a message that said basically not to be rude but the quicker you pay me, the quicker I can post it off. He never paid me and deleted his eBay account because according to eBay (who he contacted before he deleted his account), he "couldn't afford it".

6 months later - It's still in my bedroom. Total f**cking peanut. Cost me 40 quid in fees as well because it was technically a sale, even though he didn't pay, and eBay wouldn't refund them. Bellends.

You made a big mistake here, non payment can be flagged very easily and final value refund be made. It takes a while if there isn't a "mutual non-payment", but it works.