i swear I am pretty sure people blindly buy things without reading or looking at any pictures. I sold some DS cases/manuals recently all the transactions went through fine except 1 person opened a case because there was no game. I sent the person a message back simply stating the title said case and manual only. the body of the auction states no game included and no where is the 3 pictures included in this auction does it show a game. This was a simply $4.99 shipped auction. I maybe made $2 on this auction afters fees and shipping but now the headache will mean much more.
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
i swear I am pretty sure people blindly buy things without reading or looking at any pictures. I sold some DS cases/manuals recently all the transactions went through fine except 1 person opened a case because there was no game. I sent the person a message back simply stating the title said case and manual only. the body of the auction states no game included and no where is the 3 pictures included in this auction does it show a game. This was a simply $4.99 shipped auction. I maybe made $2 on this auction afters fees and shipping but now the headache will mean much more.
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
Even if you go through the motions and refund all their money, they could still be a jerk and leave you negative feedback just for laughs.
i swear I am pretty sure people blindly buy things without reading or looking at any pictures. I sold some DS cases/manuals recently all the transactions went through fine except 1 person opened a case because there was no game. I sent the person a message back simply stating the title said case and manual only. the body of the auction states no game included and no where is the 3 pictures included in this auction does it show a game. This was a simply $4.99 shipped auction. I maybe made $2 on this auction afters fees and shipping but now the headache will mean much more.
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
Even if you go through the motions and refund all their money, they could still be a jerk and leave you negative feedback just for laughs.
While I know what you say to be true, I personally feel that this policy needs to be changed. If you willingly refund money, ebay should put some sort of mechanism in place, allowing the buyer to only leave positive or neutral feedback. Although netral isn't great, if the customer really felt they were wrong, then I can understand where they are coming from; however, to refund and still be left with a negative, quite a low hit to the nuts, imo.
I am actually going through this situation right now. I woke up this morning and had a case opened against me for an item I had sold, and the buyer had wanted a partial refund. This was my first time to having this happen, and I sent a message back to the buyer and agreed about it, but I haven't hard back yet, so I don't know if he will drop the case, and certainly can't control what kind of feedback he leaves me, if any. And it just makes me feel angry, frustrated, and sick tbh. As a small time seller, I just sell for the sake of earning a few extra dollars to put towards my collection (to help fund the research for a book I'm writing...no I don't want to get involved with crowd funding stuff), and I also sell as a means of helping other collectors get some rarer import items for more affordable prices.
So to end up losing some money and even worse, risk a negative feedback, I just feel like I am going to get my arm broken, while getting beat up, or something. Oh and this seller is from the USA too, just like most of my troubles. I might seriously consider refusing to sell there anymore, at least on ebay, because that is where all of the folks that abuse the system seem to come from.
Wow, that's a novel way of directing traffic to a website. Clever.
Onto my unrelated gripe:
A few days ago I was searching eBay for a used memory card. I came across a listing for one @ $4.39 or BO. I decide to put in a BO at an even $4 and figured that was that. About a day passes when I get a notification that the seller rejected my BO. Seriously, why even offer a BO if you're going to turn down an offer over 39 cents?
Wow, that's a novel way of directing traffic to a website. Clever.
Onto my unrelated gripe:
A few days ago I was searching eBay for a used memory card. I came across a listing for one @ $4.39 or BO. I decide to put in a BO at an even $4 and figured that was that. About a day passes when I get a notification that the seller rejected my BO. Seriously, why even offer a BO if you're going to turn down an offer over 39 cents?
Has anybody done a return at GS? Do they make you return the whole package or do they just exchange the game?
I would rather keep the box and manual and just get the game replaced. It's my 3rd try getting this game with a manual.
Return the disc or cartridge without the case and manual. GS literally values them at $0 so leaving them out of a return is non of their concern. I do this sometimes when I know the case and manual are a little hard to find but the disc is in terrible shape. Shoot, I even ask them if I can just have the case and 90% of the time they say yes.
Today I went to sell some items on ebay, and I received a message that I couldn't sell any games, until I took a short quiz/tutorial about intellectual property law. Now the funny thing is that within the past two months, I have had two auctions flagged for being pirate game cartridges, but the other multicarts I had listed went by (thus far) without difficulty; in addition, some other guy complained because he bought a bootleg copy of a game, as opposed to the legit version. Now we are talking about an early 1990s game, and the low starting price (and pictures) should have been a clear sign of what the game was. So I suspect either the last guy sent my account into having to take the stupid tutorial, or that another seller in my area (who is a power seller, sells similar items as me, and always sells for prices three or four times the amount that I ask) is flagging my auctions just to boost their own sales and knock out the competition...either way, I am angry about this.
One of the questions in the tutorial said the following:
eBay cancelled my listing, but similar listings are still on the site. This could be because
a. eBay has not discovered or been notified by a rights owner about the other items
b. I have violated other policies, and eBay is more concerned about my behavior than the behavior of the other sellers
c. The other sellers are PowerSellers
d. The other sellers have eBay Stores
Heh, I think b, c, or d could all be the real answer on this one...
Actually, I called eBay on that issue after they yanked one of my items. They pull stuff usually when it gets reported and they have a reasonable certainty that the item violates their ToS. So someone reported you, probably another seller.
B is an indirect admission of guilt, never click that, as of now it's just assumed from someone else being a whiner trying to harass you. A looks also like one too which would cause them reason to check your other items. C and D just looks like generalized snark saying they're more fair towards store holders and power sellers.
I'm pretty mad. I bought a 3DS XL on ebay for $140 shipped. It was a great deal for me and I was happy to pay immediately (Which I paid within seconds, literally). The seller waits 4 days and then refunds the money. No message, no excuse, no apology. Then I check their feedback and they have several feedback from other people complaining that the seller sold them this item (It was the exact same listing) and then canceled and relisted it. so apparently this scumbag is essentially using ebay as a 0% loan. I will be leaving negative feedback as soon as I can.
I'm pretty mad. I bought a 3DS XL on ebay for $140 shipped. It was a great deal for me and I was happy to pay immediately (Which I paid within seconds, literally). The seller waits 4 days and then refunds the money. No message, no excuse, no apology. Then I check their feedback and they have several feedback from other people complaining that the seller sold them this item (It was the exact same listing) and then canceled and relisted it. so apparently this scumbag is essentially using ebay as a 0% loan. I will be leaving negative feedback as soon as I can.
As dickish as that is, you have to applaud is idea .
Block this ebay seller: skiesohryu . Just checked today and I saw that he left me a neutral, because the item was shipped from Taiwan and not Pennsylvania (my home). Never received any messages from the guy complaining about time to receive the package (though the game was shipped *for free* via registered airmail), and of course the game arrived as described. As per his comments, I can only assume that he hates Taiwanese people or something, since the neutral feedback left just states that the item was sent from Taiwan and not PA.
I could care less where my packages arrive from, so long as they arrive in a timely fashion and are as described, and I certainly wouldn't be giving people less-than stellar feedbacks based off this fact alone. "Oh, this package came from Canada and not France?!? I hate Canadian people, instant neutral right there!!!" Ugh, the stupidity of some people.
In the past two weeks I've had three or four issues on ebay, after NEVER having a single issue. I am really starting to think that I might just go back to selling exclusively on the forums again, or just stop wasting my time selling at all, as ebay seems to be for masochists.
So sick of people buying items then asking for a cheaper price. Aguqeh-ghpghq-gpqegngiqeugq[jgnb
I wish ebay would allow me to cancel a transaction without the buyer and block their ass. So sick of this shit.
Its like if I say no the odds of them being a dick go up and dinging my feedback because I didnt give them 4 dollars off a 21 dollar item after they purchased it. Asking for paypal partial refunds.
and another thing. I wish buyers would understand even before you pay I cant alter the items price if its free shipping, which all my items are.
Who are these people? I've never heard of someone demand discounts after purchase. I'd report anyone who did that to me instantly to ebay over the phone as extortion so if they did leave feedback I could argue removal.
I had a guy do that to me recently... hit BIN on an expensive item I was selling and then told me he'd only give me $500 for it. Sad part... the listing was (well, is, I called eBay and made them let me ding him and relist it that same day) BIN OBO.
Fuck ebay, once the auctions that I have listed end, I think I am done for awhile.
Everything was smooth sailing for me up until about a month ago. One buyer didn't receive his package because he was on vacation, and since it was sent registered mail, the cart was shipped back to Taiwan. I resent the cart to the guy, and he was nice about it, but I still don't know if I will receive bad feedback over the transaction or not.
Then there was the recent buyer who left me a neutral simply because I shipped the game from Taiwan. No message, just a feedback.
That happened within this past week, along with another joker who demanded a refund for a game not being as described.
Finally tonight, I go into my ebay account, and see I have yet another case against me. This time it was because a German buyer couldn't get an unlicensed NTSC Super Famicom game to play in his (probably German) Super Nintendo machine. He claimed that he tried dumping the game and it said it was invalid, and that the cart was garbage. Now, we all know how well copiers work, especially when dealing with unlicensed games with funky work around schemes. It was that guy's system, plain and simple, because I tested the cart before I mailed it out. I sent this new guy a message telling him I would send the refund when I got the game back, but I have a feeling that a negative is on its way, over $20 freaking dollars. That's right, 20 freaking dollars.
So two ebay cases, several possible negatives, a neutral feedback, and an item randomly being reported, all in the matter of a week and a half. I am tired of this shit, and work enough as is, this just isn't worth it. I am done with the crap for now.
Missed out on a great deal for 16 3DS games including Ocarina of time 3D, Mario 3D Land and Professor Layton amongst other decent titles like Rayman Origins and LEGO games. The most annoying part is he's clearly someone who's either going to sell them on or put them on a shelf never to be played (He has 6 sealed Mario Stick Stars so I doubt he doesn't have big games like Zelda and Mario).
Was bidding on a Super Mario World Advance 2 box and manual. Anyways, just before the auction ends, a bidder with zero feedback bids. He has 100% bidding history with only this seller (thinking shill bidding). Anyways, he took the total of the auction to just above my max bid and then I receive a "2nd chance offer". What is this idiot trying to pull? Does he not think I'm going to check the bid history?
Yeh yeh everyone is quick to point at shill bidding. I had 7 just created account noobs bidding up some jordan's I had. They bid them up to over $100. Bet everyone thought I was shill bidding.
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I'm surprised that post has been up this long and no one questions why you think it burning down is a bad thing.
I saw it earlier today, but the tears of happiness running down my face made it too hard to type a reply
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
I would rather keep the box and manual and just get the game replaced. It's my 3rd try getting this game with a manual.
Originally posted by: NexPhr3ak0r
i swear I am pretty sure people blindly buy things without reading or looking at any pictures. I sold some DS cases/manuals recently all the transactions went through fine except 1 person opened a case because there was no game. I sent the person a message back simply stating the title said case and manual only. the body of the auction states no game included and no where is the 3 pictures included in this auction does it show a game. This was a simply $4.99 shipped auction. I maybe made $2 on this auction afters fees and shipping but now the headache will mean much more.
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
Even if you go through the motions and refund all their money, they could still be a jerk and leave you negative feedback just for laughs.
Originally posted by: Rooster
Originally posted by: NexPhr3ak0r
i swear I am pretty sure people blindly buy things without reading or looking at any pictures. I sold some DS cases/manuals recently all the transactions went through fine except 1 person opened a case because there was no game. I sent the person a message back simply stating the title said case and manual only. the body of the auction states no game included and no where is the 3 pictures included in this auction does it show a game. This was a simply $4.99 shipped auction. I maybe made $2 on this auction afters fees and shipping but now the headache will mean much more.
i'll refund their money that is not a big concern (a whopping 4.99) but will this be a ding against my seller account? I did everything right on my side and am willing to refund their money to keep them happy, but not if it counts against me.
Even if you go through the motions and refund all their money, they could still be a jerk and leave you negative feedback just for laughs.
While I know what you say to be true, I personally feel that this policy needs to be changed. If you willingly refund money, ebay should put some sort of mechanism in place, allowing the buyer to only leave positive or neutral feedback. Although netral isn't great, if the customer really felt they were wrong, then I can understand where they are coming from; however, to refund and still be left with a negative, quite a low hit to the nuts, imo.
I am actually going through this situation right now. I woke up this morning and had a case opened against me for an item I had sold, and the buyer had wanted a partial refund. This was my first time to having this happen, and I sent a message back to the buyer and agreed about it, but I haven't hard back yet, so I don't know if he will drop the case, and certainly can't control what kind of feedback he leaves me, if any. And it just makes me feel angry, frustrated, and sick tbh. As a small time seller, I just sell for the sake of earning a few extra dollars to put towards my collection (to help fund the research for a book I'm writing...no I don't want to get involved with crowd funding stuff), and I also sell as a means of helping other collectors get some rarer import items for more affordable prices.
So to end up losing some money and even worse, risk a negative feedback, I just feel like I am going to get my arm broken, while getting beat up, or something. Oh and this seller is from the USA too, just like most of my troubles. I might seriously consider refusing to sell there anymore, at least on ebay, because that is where all of the folks that abuse the system seem to come from.
i was browsing craigslist today and spotted this listing
http://bellingham.craigslist.org/vgm/4121063220.html
i messaged asking what games were included in the system and this is the message i got back:
Hello Someone just purched this from me, but I can tell you where I got it from.
I just got 4 of these from here retailbidcacts.com and I resold them for some extra money.
The trick is to watch for bidding to slow down and then jump in. That's what I do and I win all the time.
All the best
Diana
Sent from my iPhone
Needless to say i'm more than annoyed, what a waste of time!
Onto my unrelated gripe:
A few days ago I was searching eBay for a used memory card. I came across a listing for one @ $4.39 or BO. I decide to put in a BO at an even $4 and figured that was that. About a day passes when I get a notification that the seller rejected my BO. Seriously, why even offer a BO if you're going to turn down an offer over 39 cents?
Originally posted by: teh lurv
Wow, that's a novel way of directing traffic to a website. Clever.
Onto my unrelated gripe:
A few days ago I was searching eBay for a used memory card. I came across a listing for one @ $4.39 or BO. I decide to put in a BO at an even $4 and figured that was that. About a day passes when I get a notification that the seller rejected my BO. Seriously, why even offer a BO if you're going to turn down an offer over 39 cents?
maybe someone offered him 4.01 LOL!!!!
Has anybody done a return at GS? Do they make you return the whole package or do they just exchange the game?
I would rather keep the box and manual and just get the game replaced. It's my 3rd try getting this game with a manual.
Return the disc or cartridge without the case and manual. GS literally values them at $0 so leaving them out of a return is non of their concern. I do this sometimes when I know the case and manual are a little hard to find but the disc is in terrible shape. Shoot, I even ask them if I can just have the case and 90% of the time they say yes.
Is there any more I can do about this?
One of the questions in the tutorial said the following:
eBay cancelled my listing, but similar listings are still on the site. This could be because
a. eBay has not discovered or been notified by a rights owner about the other items
b. I have violated other policies, and eBay is more concerned about my behavior than the behavior of the other sellers
c. The other sellers are PowerSellers
d. The other sellers have eBay Stores
Heh, I think b, c, or d could all be the real answer on this one...
Originally posted by: Rooster
I'm pretty mad. I bought a 3DS XL on ebay for $140 shipped. It was a great deal for me and I was happy to pay immediately (Which I paid within seconds, literally). The seller waits 4 days and then refunds the money. No message, no excuse, no apology. Then I check their feedback and they have several feedback from other people complaining that the seller sold them this item (It was the exact same listing) and then canceled and relisted it. so apparently this scumbag is essentially using ebay as a 0% loan. I will be leaving negative feedback as soon as I can.
As dickish as that is, you have to applaud is idea .
I could care less where my packages arrive from, so long as they arrive in a timely fashion and are as described, and I certainly wouldn't be giving people less-than stellar feedbacks based off this fact alone. "Oh, this package came from Canada and not France?!? I hate Canadian people, instant neutral right there!!!" Ugh, the stupidity of some people.
In the past two weeks I've had three or four issues on ebay, after NEVER having a single issue. I am really starting to think that I might just go back to selling exclusively on the forums again, or just stop wasting my time selling at all, as ebay seems to be for masochists.
I wish ebay would allow me to cancel a transaction without the buyer and block their ass. So sick of this shit.
Its like if I say no the odds of them being a dick go up and dinging my feedback because I didnt give them 4 dollars off a 21 dollar item after they purchased it. Asking for paypal partial refunds.
and another thing. I wish buyers would understand even before you pay I cant alter the items price if its free shipping, which all my items are.
Originally posted by: Rooster
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Nintendo-Console-SNES-gam...
What is going on in this auction? Could it be shill bids because the seller didnt like what the auction was ending for?
The guy re-listed the post, and guess what I see...lots of shillbids IN A ROW.
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=200973813954
It's even a newly registered member, and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Everything was smooth sailing for me up until about a month ago. One buyer didn't receive his package because he was on vacation, and since it was sent registered mail, the cart was shipped back to Taiwan. I resent the cart to the guy, and he was nice about it, but I still don't know if I will receive bad feedback over the transaction or not.
Then there was the recent buyer who left me a neutral simply because I shipped the game from Taiwan. No message, just a feedback.
That happened within this past week, along with another joker who demanded a refund for a game not being as described.
Finally tonight, I go into my ebay account, and see I have yet another case against me. This time it was because a German buyer couldn't get an unlicensed NTSC Super Famicom game to play in his (probably German) Super Nintendo machine. He claimed that he tried dumping the game and it said it was invalid, and that the cart was garbage. Now, we all know how well copiers work, especially when dealing with unlicensed games with funky work around schemes. It was that guy's system, plain and simple, because I tested the cart before I mailed it out. I sent this new guy a message telling him I would send the refund when I got the game back, but I have a feeling that a negative is on its way, over $20 freaking dollars. That's right, 20 freaking dollars.
So two ebay cases, several possible negatives, a neutral feedback, and an item randomly being reported, all in the matter of a week and a half. I am tired of this shit, and work enough as is, this just isn't worth it. I am done with the crap for now.
Shill bidding....