Problem with ebay!

[goodboys]

This about a problem that I had faced with ebay recently.
I have been using ebay since the past 15months and I have no problems what soever regarding buying things. But when it comes to selling, I must say my success rate was around 20%. That is if I listed 10 items in ebay, I sold only 2 items without any problems.
The remaining items were left out due to some problems with ebay listing policy or because of fake ebay bidders. These bidders wont pay a single buck and if you were not aware of such bidders, then you will be losing your item for sure.

A similar thing happened with me when I listed my mobile for selling. I kept the 'BUYITNOW' price to be £70. And after the bidding has ended, a fake bidder had the highest bid of £908. I got really suspicious then itself. Then I got some emails from him asking me to ship the item to some unregistered address in Nigeria and that he would pay he the additional postage costs. He even sent me some fake paypal receipts pretending that he had already paid me £938GBP and has asked me to ship out the item immediately.
Then I mailed to ebay regarding this problem, who then asked me to wait for 7 more days and see whether the buyer pays or not. Its been 25 days since this happened and there's nothing that ebay did regarding this issue and moreover they have deducted £18GBP from my account as the final value fee.
This is really so ridiculous on the part of ebay to have done like this.

So, guys this is not only my problem. This message is just to warn you about all the fake ebay bidders. Be careful!

[siriya]

Originally Posted by goodboys

This about a problem that I had faced with ebay recently.
I have been using ebay since the past 15months and I have no problems what soever regarding buying things. But when it comes to selling, I must say my success rate was around 20%. That is if I listed 10 items in ebay, I sold only 2 items without any problems.
The remaining items were left out due to some problems with ebay listing policy or because of fake ebay bidders. These bidders wont pay a single buck and if you were not aware of such bidders, then you will be losing your item for sure.

A similar thing happened with me when I listed my mobile for selling. I kept the 'BUYITNOW' price to be £70. And after the bidding has ended, a fake bidder had the highest bid of £908. I got really suspicious then itself. Then I got some emails from him asking me to ship the item to some unregistered address in Nigeria and that he would pay he the additional postage costs. He even sent me some fake paypal receipts pretending that he had already paid me £938GBP and has asked me to ship out the item immediately.
Then I mailed to ebay regarding this problem, who then asked me to wait for 7 more days and see whether the buyer pays or not. Its been 25 days since this happened and there's nothing that ebay did regarding this issue and moreover they have deducted £18GBP from my account as the final value fee.
This is really so ridiculous on the part of ebay to have done like this.

So, guys this is not only my problem. This message is just to warn you about all the fake ebay bidders. Be careful!

I have not tried selling any item at ebay. How we can identify those fake bidders? Now I am sacred to sell any item at ebay.

[mianghuei]

Ebay really have many issues.

[jsitko]

I have not had this particular problem yet, however I have had another issue with phony bidders from other countries saying they will pay more than I am asking for the shipping and handling and then they want to pay with cashiers check. Are they kidding?? I know if I accept the cashiers check and then deposit it, I will get the money, then the bank will want it back because the cashiers check is no good. Ebay used to be a very safe place to sell, we just have to be very careful and suspicious of every one.

[goodboys]

Originally Posted by siriya

I have not tried selling any item at ebay. How we can identify those fake bidders? Now I am sacred to sell any item at ebay.

It is very simple. Dont trust anyone who bids for too much amount than the price that you have listed.
Second thing is that, fake bidders or fake buyers wont pay you even a single penny at all. Moreover, they ask you to ship the item to some other country than the registered address.

Do business only with those people who got atleast some feedback on their account and who pays the amount into your paypal account atmost within 1 day. You can trust the people who pay you immediately.

I will provide more details on ebay selling in my futher posts.