I talk about how much I love to buy on ebay. Now I just want to hear sellers stories about the worst, most corrupt ebay buyer they ever sold to. Coin for thread, I usually won't buy Morgans because I think the market is oversaturated with them. However I can't walk away from a dmpl toned one.
Only story I have is a buyer who wasn't actually corrupt (and it wasn't a coin I was selling; it was a DVD of the Simpsons), just annoying. Someone bid on it and won it; they also bid on the same item from another seller who was charging like $2 less than I did (ironically he ended upo paying that person even more lol... because that seller was padding the shipping) then decided he didn't want to pay me for mine and honor his winning bid. I've made mistakes before but I don't make others pay for them, and this one really annoyed me, especially as he got all indignant for daring to suggest that a winning bid is actually a binding contract (which it is btw, both legally and in eBay policies). I tried to be nice about it but eventually gave him a negative (you could actually give buyers negatives back then; I think eBay ceasing to allow sellers to give buyers negative feedback is one of the dumbest policies they've ever adopted! Buyers should have a reputation to protect too, and their reputation should suffer if they try to scam sellers or even just jerk them around.); his response was something to the degree of "whatever, it was just a misunderstanding." To what degree he simply "misunderstood" the rules, I don't really care; ignorance of the rules does not excuse someone from the duty to follow them (and I tried telling him as much in the most polite way I could manage). Besides which, I think it was pretty clear he was just trying to shop around for a better deal after the fact when someone listed the same item as me for slightly less. Eventually eBay came around to the fact that they catered to the buyers so much that the sellers weren't wanting to sell there anymore (also it was basically letting the buyers proverbially get away with murder lol...) ; you have to keep both sides of the transaction happy if you want an auction site to continue to exist lol... buyers' protections are all well and good but sellers need to be protected from buyers abusing the system too. I still don't like selling on eBay and rarely do so anymore (it just seems like such a hassle and the PayPal fees kill too much of the profit I'd ever make doing so). If I do list anything I only put in a "Buy It Now" price and set the opening bid for the same as BIN. (I also almost never buy anything off of eBay except for BIN. I hate trying to compete with snipers lol...)
No bad experiences here, but about 1/4 of everything I bid on gets cancelled. It sucks when you're 5 days in an auction and suddenly the seller ends it bc someone called him and offered him more.
My experiences as a seller have been generally good. One guy took a month to pay for a BIN coin. What is it about NOW that he didn't understand?? But he did pay.
That would be the one that nearly succeeded in stealing a $1600 camera, even though I followed eBay's Seller Protection rules to the letter. It really does look like that buyer was an aberration, though, and I'm considering getting back into the selling business. If that kind of fraud were widespread, I'd be hearing more about it here, and there would be fewer serious sellers willing to put up with it.
I don't think I've ever dealt with a rude or demanding customer on eBay . . . now that I've written that, watch me get my first tomorrow!
Not an experience with a buyer, but I did have a rough experience with a seller a few months ago. I bought a fossil from a seller in China. They didn't ship out for 3 weeks, then when I contacted them asking where it was, they said they would ship it out the next week. I didn't want to wait, so I asked for a refund. They said they would issue me one, but never did. They kept making up excuses as to why they could not issue a refund. I had to jump through some hoops with ebay because under normal circumstances I could not open a case if the date is before the expected delivery date, but I had some helpful people override the system and I eventually got my money back. Here's the full thread. http://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-do-i-do-in-this-ebay-situation.243197/
I have yet to sell on Feebay for the issues but I buy quite a bit. I have had a few issues but mostly I deal with a few select sellers that know me. In one case I bought a coin and by the time I figured out it was not silver, I emailed the seller (package was in the mail) and told them I would wait to confirm when it got to me. It was not silver but I educated them and myself on the matter and they just wrote it off and told me to keep it. I have used that particular round to show my LCS how to tell certain things. Point is, that seller and I have a relationship, they know I will not screw them and visa versa. They are my favorite seller and I just won some tonight as a matter of fact.
