Ebay warning

[hcv123]

Trying to have a reasonable conversation with ebay (paypal has been worse) in my experience has been like talking to a brick wall. They play by their own rules and change them as needed to suit their purposes. I have done thousands of transactions on ebay and paypal. The overwhelming majority have been seamless. The exceptions is where they just plain suck! I will not bore you with the details - let most of that go a while ago. I encourage you to check out the following:

http://complaints.paypalsucks.com/

and

http://ebaysucks.com/


They are essentially the only game in town doing what they do at the level they do it - my choice is to deal with the truth or choose to do business in some other way. I choose to continue to do business on ebay (with paypal)only because the exceptions in my case have been ........well, exceptional.

[the 'stache]

Here's the auction being discussed.

[roce4e52]

That's the one. Free shipping and I looked at my offer and that was free too. Ten years on Ebay and first problem that was not resolved with a phone call. However, this last month or so have had to call them 3 times with glitch issues of one kind or another.

[Econteachert205]

Seems like a legitimate beef to me, I'll have to keep this in mind when making offers.

[mrmopar]

Has the seller responded at all? Don't pay and that should get the issue resolved to some level. The seller doesn't appear to have a leg to stand on to charge shipping, so maybe once they don't get paid, they will fix the invoice and you can pay what you offered.

[roce4e52]

Sent 2 messages to seller and have not received a reply. The Ebay supervisor told me to not pay and then I could dispute the non-payment strike. I think that should all come about in a few days. I told the seller I was not upset with him just with Ebay for accepting the offer for me.

[thescooper]

The same happened to me I got in touch with the seller and he refunded me the shipping

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by roce4e52

That's the one. Free shipping and I looked at my offer and that was free too. Ten years on Ebay and first problem that was not resolved with a phone call. However, this last month or so have had to call them 3 times with glitch issues of one kind or another.

Hey Bill - you are REALLY gonna go thru your meds if you keep calling eBay!

Like Bill and Howard, 99.9% of my thousands of eBay deals have been great. From what I've read, ebay's original credo was "people are good" and it really is kind of amazing how well it usually works.....until it doesn't! Calling them is a joke. It only works as well as it does because usually they aren't involved.

But it's the only game in town and....just like some abused women (or men)...we just keep coming back. I will have to be aware of this particular scenario.

[Davino]

I think ebay paid for some cards I won!

[Exhibitman]

They'll lose on each such deal but they'll make it up on volume.