Sorry mate but all day i have been stuck with the image of you walking around with a mattress on your head,im not laughing at you but the image is strong ðŸËâ°
Anyway, eBay is ****
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Sorry mate but all day i have been stuck with the image of you walking around with a mattress on your head,im not laughing at you but the image is strong ðŸËâ°
Anyway, eBay is ****
I know i shouldn't but couldn't resist, i will get one of the mods to give me a warning. :lol:
Ebay are a terrible company. just a reply to your mention of Chinese importers , i wanted some ice ball ice cube trays for Christmas my good lady said i have bought some on Ebay, this was around the 12th dec , approx the 20th they had not arrived i said to her were did you buy them ice trays from she said ebay i said China she said it was a UK based company they, were cheapest. So i checked they were a Chinese company, saying based in the UK when you look at the hidden postage it says delivery around 30th Jan, Draw you own conclusions. Ebays lets them say there UK based when clearly they are not, This is a money making machine at the cost of any and every one who uses them they have fraud , malpractice and many other law suits out against both them and paypal in the USA, try goggling there actions the nets full of there misdemeanors .
Your dead right mick , but they have lost such a vast amount of sellers due to them refunding buyers and buyers not returning goods , Ebay has some absolutely stupid policies , but to suit ebay, Now they have lost all those sellers they are turning to China to fill the purse , Nothing would please me and millions of other people out there, who have suffered at the hands of these crazy rules, to see ebay go down the road a victim of its own stupidity and greed. All good things come to an end !
In my experience ebay are only interested in buyers and have very little regard for sellers (just look at the fees in UK being 15% whereas everywhere else it's tiered starting off very low, 1 or 2%). As as seller I got negative feedback for something which I clearly described in the description and yet the seller complained that it was how I described it, but I had no comeback.
Afaik any seller that tells you to remove negative feedback before a refund will get an infraction, if not a ban, from ebay as that is extortion, but I don't know why you left feedback before you asked for a refund (if I get a refund without any fuss I do not leave bad feedback generally, though it depends on the circumstance) as you didn't know what the resolution was to give feedback.
yeastinfection
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not what it used to be,
its useful for odd things,like making stir plates :)
but like you say, spend wisely, ive heard stories of people selling stuff, then the buyer saying it was damaged,
when the item was returned,it wasnt the item they sent out, and the buyer had swapped there damaged one for the good one,
i bought an ipod from ebay a couple of years ago, and actually filmed myself opening it, so i had proof if it was damaged prior to me receiving it ,
and the charges now are ridiculous,sold a scrap bike for less than ã200 and i think the fees came to about ã35
its useful for odd things,like making stir plates :)
but like you say, spend wisely, ive heard stories of people selling stuff, then the buyer saying it was damaged,
when the item was returned,it wasnt the item they sent out, and the buyer had swapped there damaged one for the good one,
i bought an ipod from ebay a couple of years ago, and actually filmed myself opening it, so i had proof if it was damaged prior to me receiving it ,
and the charges now are ridiculous,sold a scrap bike for less than ã200 and i think the fees came to about ã35
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I hate that you have to use PayPal. Same con, if the buyer complains then they automatically get their money back before the seller can do anything.
Thats what they have moved away from. Now its the sellers not sending what was advertised and conning buyers.
Basically Ebay has become a den of thieves with unscrupulous buyers and sellers taking advantage of the way it works.
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Cheers guys, just in case anyone thought i was joking here is the accursed mattress itself. I still cant get my head around the mentality of a factory that sets it equipment up to make a bed 10cm too short. Does no one ever check anything. 
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Cheers guys, just in case anyone thought i was joking here is the accursed mattress itself. I still cant get my head around the mentality of a factory that sets it equipment up to make a bed 10cm too short. Does no one ever check anything.
What's that demijohn doing empty in the picture? lol
I bet they were surprised you took it back, most wouldn't unless shop bought. You didn't have an ikea bed frame, as they have an odd size mattress that fit them.
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I use ebay regularly with very few problems. Mainly for low value items.
Worst problem I had was when I tried to sell an old film camera. The rewind lever was broken, which was clearly stated. The lens was probably worth more than the body. Anyway this guy with no feedback buys it in the auction (for the lens he said) then refuses to pay because it was too expensive! A long running saga followed, with him threatening me with the police at one point! I gave up selling after that. Not worth the trouble.
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Worst problem I had was when I tried to sell an old film camera. The rewind lever was broken, which was clearly stated. The lens was probably worth more than the body. Anyway this guy with no feedback buys it in the auction (for the lens he said) then refuses to pay because it was too expensive! A long running saga followed, with him threatening me with the police at one point! I gave up selling after that. Not worth the trouble.
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300 transactions and only one problem out of them all, parcel lost in post, i have a feeling it arrived and the bloke was trying his luck.
