Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions

[Fueco]

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This should qualify as both feedback extortion and buyer’s remorse. Others with more recent experience should chime in though…

 

[wumpyfish]

relatively new to managed payments, anyone else have to give ebay your bank statement, your drivers license/photo id?

 

[carreragt7]

@zenosparadox
Take the return. Wait a month and anonymously send him one of the glitterbomb presents since you’ve got the address still. If that seems too soon, send him one for st paddy’s day or Mother’s Day. Haha
I’m tired of people being idiots in general, eBay buyers especially. Glitter bombs seem like the perfect gift for those fools. Call me Tom, because I’m petty like that!

 

[Fueco]

relatively new to managed payments, anyone else have to give ebay your bank statement, your drivers license/photo id?

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No, but my account is linked to a business checking account.

 

[drlivingston]

This should qualify as both feedback extortion and buyer’s remorse. Others with more recent experience should chime in though…

Completely agree with this. His threat nullified any chance of a refund. Any non-positive feedback should be easily removed.

 

[vestbash]

relatively new to managed payments, anyone else have to give ebay your bank statement, your drivers license/photo id?

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I had to do this about a month after switching to managed payments. I was also asked to provide some ownership information about my company as well.

 

[haloitsme]

relatively new to managed payments, anyone else have to give ebay your bank statement, your drivers license/photo id?

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Similar, Passport, Bank Details, VAT number, etc. just the usual stuff...

 

[Tweets]

Completely agree with this. His threat nullified any chance of a refund. Any non-positive feedback should be easily removed.

Good luck, I recently had one that the buyer said "Before I left my feedback/review, I wanted to give you one last chance to offer a refund" and had multiple customer agents tell me that unless they threaten to leave negative, it can't be removed.

 

[kbadgley84]

Good luck, I recently had one that the buyer said "Before I left my feedback/review, I wanted to give you one last chance to offer a refund" and had multiple customer agents tell me that unless they threaten to leave negative, it can't be removed.

Same thing happened to me. Got negged after buyer politely told me he was giving me a chance to make this GW right before leaving a negative review. Couldn’t get it removed

 

[zenosparadox]

Crazy resolution to this story: I sent an email to the buyer denying his request for a refund on the grounds that he wanted me to acquiesce to his demand purely on the basis of a threat. I told him that the conversation would have been very different had he just messaged me to say that he had made a mistake with the sizing and was wondering if I might be willing to make an exception to my no refund policy.

I fully expected pushback, a negative review, and perhaps an attempt at changing the reason for the refund request to an NAD or a credit card chargeback. Instead… he left me positive feedback. Specifically, he wrote: “Excellent eBay transaction with a thoughtful eBay seller.”

A buyer on eBay didn’t get the response he was hoping for, reflected on it, and actually changed his mind, despite it not being to his monetary advantage. He then did the very opposite of what he had initially threatened. This is some crazy sort of unicorn, right? I didn’t think it was possible, but this has restored a bit of my faith in the rationality of anonymous others on the internet.

 

[127.72 MHz]

Damn, @SpooPoker ....

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Pretty difficult to believe that anyone could be that daft,....

 

[127.72 MHz]

Although I have a couple of dozen pairs of Aldens, Allen Edmonds, Johnston and Murphy, Mephisto, and a few other assorted brands to purge from my stable this thread has pretty well cured me of any thoughts of selling on EBay.

 

[MJMcRibb]

Had a NAD opened yesterday with this message from the buyer:
Hey, this item isn’t the same as it was in the pictures. It’s an entirely different color and a different fit as well. The ones in the pictures look like the ABC Warpstreme Slim in Olive Green. These are brown and look like straight fit.

Item Specifics for the item in quesiton:

READING IS HARD.

 

[txwoodworker]

Although I have a couple of dozen pairs of Aldens, Allen Edmonds, Johnston and Murphy, Mephisto, and a few other assorted brands to purge from my stable this thread has pretty well cured me of any thoughts of selling on EBay.

I have such little luck with shoes on ebay, you should just donate all of those Aldens and AE to your local GW. The Mephisto and J&M make good planters.

 

[haloitsme]

Same thing happened to me. Got negged after buyer politely told me he was giving me a chance to make this GW right before leaving a negative review. Couldn’t get it removed

I simply don’t understand why eBay is not deleting, or even show does feedback. It’s usually about the stupidity of the buyer, and then he does not want to pay return.
And then demands additional discount...