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How difficult is it to set up auctions on eBay?

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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: shmokes on August 13, 2007, 02:23:04 am ---Last October I won an auction for a bee costume.  Three days after I won the auction the seller emailed me saying that she did not have the item. 

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I bet that stung...

Havok:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on August 13, 2007, 09:45:46 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on August 13, 2007, 02:23:04 am ---Last October I won an auction for a bee costume.  Three days after I won the auction the seller emailed me saying that she did not have the item. 

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I bet that stung...

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Yeah, the one thing that pisses me off about ebay feedback is the seller holding hostage their feedback - once the item is bought and paid for, they should have to leave feedback. Their portion of the sale is done, they have nothing else to do, so leave the damn feedback on the transaction... Ebay has started to head in the right direction - now you can leave "detailed" feedback on a purchase, and the seller has no idea what you left in that part, just a positive or negative. That's a start. The other thing they should do is to force a seller to leave feedback after a purchase has been verified by a winning bidder.

I leave feedback for every purchase and sale I do on ebay, but I only get about 60% feedback from the other party. Punks!

missioncontrol:
The feedback system is efffed up.... I feel once a seller receives your money then they should leave feedback and the buyer in turn gives feedback one they receive the product. Most sellers will not leave feedback until the buyer leaves theirs sellers use this as a tactic to ensure they get good feedback by keeping your feedback hostage. I will not leave feedback for a seller who doesn't leave feedback stating they received my part of the deal.

Jouster:

--- Quote from: boykster on August 13, 2007, 12:10:08 am ---
--- Quote from: Jouster on August 12, 2007, 12:50:21 pm ---I wouldn't even bother...it is way too difficult for the average person to do anything on eBay.  You can tell that by seeing the incredibly lower number of auctions that actually place there.

Jouster

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might as well just stop breathing while you at it, life is so complicated after all..... :dizzy:

ebay is ridiculously simple to use, and it THE auction site to sell stuff.  You don't need to have a flashy listing to sell your stuff, as ppl in this thread have stated, keep it simple, descriptive, and have fun.
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Wow...think I might have been joking (just a tad)?? ??

Jouster

hypernova:

--- Quote from: Havok on August 13, 2007, 11:01:16 am ---Yeah, the one thing that pisses me off about ebay feedback is the seller holding hostage their feedback - once the item is bought and paid for, they should have to leave feedback. Their portion of the sale is done, they have nothing else to do, so leave the damn feedback on the transaction... Ebay has started to head in the right direction - now you can leave "detailed" feedback on a purchase, and the seller has no idea what you left in that part, just a positive or negative. That's a start. The other thing they should do is to force a seller to leave feedback after a purchase has been verified by a winning bidder.

I leave feedback for every purchase and sale I do on ebay, but I only get about 60% feedback from the other party. Punks!

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That portion of the sale is NOT done.  I do the same exact thing.  I'll explain why furthur down.  When I sell things, I will never leave a buyer feedback until I've gotten it first.


--- Quote ---I ran across a bidder who had a 60+ rating but had never left a single feedback in return.
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I've had one or two of those as well.  Hell, I still have one pending for about 6 weeks now.  This is just one minor reason not to leave feedback first when selling.  Those people who never leave feedback are always buyers.  Very rarely, if ever, are they sellers.


--- Quote ---But a close second is the feedback system.  There is absolutely no oversight.
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Agreed.  Let me tell you how I obtained my one and only negative feedback, and the BIGGEST reason not to leave feedback first when selling:

I sold a Game n Watch.  I uploaded a picture of the front of the unit.  In the description, I said it WORKED correctly and had two new batteries that were opened to make sure the item worked.  I had no picture of the back of the unit, nor did I say anything else about it.  That was it.
Some guy in Sweden bought it.  I shipped it.  Few days later, I look in my ebay, and notice my feedback went down!  Checked the feedback, and this is what the guy writes:

--- Quote ---Wrongfully declared product with lots of deficiancies (no serial number etc.)
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I never said it had a serial number!  Nothing!  This dickwad obviously (after checking his bidding history) confused my auction with someone else's, and realized he was the dumbfuck, gave me negative feedback.  I think he realized HE was in error, but needed to compensate for his stupidity, and gave me a - feedback, especially because he NEVER even tried contacting me afterwards.  HE KNEW HE ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- UP AND BLAMED ME!!!  He had no case, and decided to screw me over in the process.

Can you tell that experience really pisses me off every time I think about it?

Needless to say, my NUMEROUS attempts to contact ebay's feedback dept has yielded no results.  Even explaining my concrete case does nothing.  They don't care.

Moral of the story?  The transaction's NEVER over until the buyer receives the item, and gave you feedback.  That way you KNOW that they fully understood the auction and its terms.

I'll be damned before I start giving positive feedback to an incompetent, illiterate buyer who can't read 100 words of text and comprehend it correctly.


--- Quote ---If there's one thing about Ebay that I absolutely hate, it's the fees.
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Quite frankly, I wish they'd starting hitting the sellers who charge exhorbitant shipping fees to bypass the regular fees.

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