ebay

[bri.d]

has anyone tryed useing the feedback checker etc etc on goofbay before they make any bids on ebay it tells you things ebay doesent wont you to see or makes it hard work for you to find  you could be surprized what turns up it would have saved me £60 if i had of known 100 per cent feed back yet he had 75 negs left totaly unfair and very misleading thats ebay all for the seller nothing for the buyer

its all free to use

[baystokie]

Any response from ebay when you complained?

[bri.d]

Any response from ebay when you complained?

ebay not interested  one bit .they say they  do not have anything to do with fraud. ect
 but they work very closely with the police.nothing but rubbish .not interested. only interested in sellers fees.if he sells or not they still get there fee. they make nothing from a buyer. ebay is going down quicker then they think.

[Captain Pugwash]

You are quite right about Ebay not being bothered about sellers.

There are also bad buyers.But you cannot leave negative for them.I have had several timewasters not paying for items or replying to emails.

I know paypal is a safe way to pay but it's a rip-off for sellers,also run by Ebay.

I had a look at Goofbay,hadn't heard of it before.I liked the Last minute auction bargain hunter.

[IanSammel]

It's interesting to see how Ebay has developed over the years.  Some changes are positive, some negative.  For example it's now only the last year of evaluations that count.  I have nothing against that.  I don't believe people should be penalized for something they did in the dim and distant past.  On the other hand, it is no longer possible to see who is bidding in auctions.  Previously I caught many sellers bidding in their own auctions.  I reported them to Ebay and generally they were excluded from selling for a while, sometimes permanently (although usually only after the auction had finished so Ebay still got their cut).  Nowadays it's no longer possible to see who is bidding which makes it difficult to detect such practices.  Ebay claims this is to protect the sellers privacy but it does mean you can push the prices in your own auctions with impunity.

[baystokie]

Must admit my experiences are only as a buyer. I set a maximum price I wish to pay. If the seller doesn't bid on his own item and I get it for a lower price = fine;. If he bids and this pushes the price so I have to pay my max price = fine; if he pushes the price beyond my max, I don't buy it = fine.
I am in control of my bid all through the process.

As far as being a seller - I understand you have to offer Paypal whatever other payment type you offer - that's seems dictatorial. Coupled with the already expressed problems of non-payers etc, it's why I am not yet in the Sellers' Union!

With 'distance auctions', there are other problems such as when I successfully bid for an item but it got 'lostt in the post'. I got a refund which was fair enough but a month later, the same seller offered the identical item. When I queried this, he simply told me that my bid, though successful,was derisory in his opinion and it was easy to claim the loss and try and sell it again, hopefully attracting a higher bid.

Caveat emptor (and seller)

[fossil]

do any of the readers of these pages, look at the prices some sellers on ebay, try to sell their sets of cards ?
it really surprises me that i have often or not, seen sellers, especially more well established sellers with high feedback, try to sell their items.
just browsing this morning, i was looking at the albums, both of wills, and players, and decided to look at the highest first.
their is a wills dogs album, almost at £35, and a players ARP album, almost at £30.
the ARP album,'s cover, i would consider binning it.
surely, when a seller tries to sell an item, they must see how much an item is selling for, before clutching an imagiary number from mid air, and trying to sell it on ebay.
likewise, i have often sen single cards, with catalogue values at pence per singlr card, that have been torn out a stuck in album, with partial front of image also missing, put on ebayselling over a pound per card.
ebay is  sometimes very entertaining if you have a few moments spare

[bri.d]

a typical example worth £2 or £3
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28-OGDEN-GOLD-CIGERETTE-CARDS-/120895350053?pt=UK_Collectables_Cigarette_Tea_GumCards_CA&hash=item1c25eca525

[fossil]

well it's certainly nworth a good laugh.
what puzzles me is why sellers hoping to sell an item, does not do a little researh upon an item before selling.
i seem to feel, almost that the seller does not really want to sell their items, by putting on such an extravagent price.
if i sell an item, even if i am not sure of what it is, i do at least do a little research and see the current selling prices, and then put it on below the selling prices of others.
after all, if i sell an item, i don't want it, so pleased to be rid of it, and if  the buyer is happy, then we both have a great deal

[fossil]

another ebay seller, pl.,ayers birds and their young in album, £99
did his finger slip, and meant 99p ?

[Captain Pugwash]

You would be surprised to hear that some of these inflated items do sell !!!

[bri.d]

this is one which should sell for a lot more one of the scarce guinea golds
cat at £60

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BONNIE-MAGUIRE-523-NUMBERED-SERIES-OGDENS-GUINEA-GOLD-/250978717368?pt=UK_Collectables_Cigarette_Tea_GumCards_CA&hash=item3a6f7f4eb8

[mrp1017]

do any of the readers of these pages, look at the prices some sellers on ebay, try to sell their sets of cards ?

Are you kidding me? That would require actual work to figure out a good ballpark value of a card. Half of these idiots use the list and hope approach. I can''t even get a good scan of the item so you know they don't take the time to learn much about selling.

[fossil]

what is more strange, is to the fact that a while back, two people were going out of their way to bid on the modern typhoo set and album, of wild flowers.
i believe when some bidderes are outbid, rather than commonsense take place, they have a red cloud in front of their eyes, and bid no matter the outcome.
i just wish i could get £25 for the set, thet the bidders paid for the set

[baystokie]

Ebay is an auction and, as such, get 2 bidders after
the same item and the final price is anyone's guess. I
often find that many sets (and odds) are offered by
a number of sellers so there is plenty of choice of
condition and price. Much feedback tends to be quite
hard on cases of 'gilding the lily' etc. Touch wood,
I have only twice sent items back where I was not prepared to keep and pay - and I have bought over 700 items in 7 years.

Sellers can ask whatever they like - it's my responsibility
and judgement if I pay it - or less.

Most of us(?) have a catalogue or basic knowledge to
know what is reasonable or not. I would have thought it
 reasonable for sellers to check prices of similar items-
but CSGB condition criteria will mean very little -
especially if they have not sold cards before.