Ebay is an effing stitch! I got conned on ebay and they did eff all about it!

Just a word of warnin to all you e-tailers and consumers. Dont use ebay its a ******** wind up. I lost £600 because of them....!!!!!!

 

Want to share what happened?

Personally I never spend over £50 on eBay and its not because I am tight arsed. I just dont trust its members or the come back when something goes wrong.

 

Ive heard loads of stuff like this on ebay. people bought tickets for the world cup from ebay only to go there and see that the tickets were not valid. Thank god I don't have a credit card

 

yeah ..... i would also say the same ! Never use E BAY .!

I have also lost nearly 15 $ coz of them ! ( Though the amount is really very low )

I bought a domain and a hosting packages from ebay and now that guy asks me for my Residential proof, ID proof ( I don't even what exactly he meant) and two passport size pics .. !

That guy was a total **** ***** !

Feeling pretty bad for you buddy ! £ 600 is something too much for me...

Best of luck... !

 

I won a auction for a dell computer right, this time last year the dimension 9100. Thought wot a bargain, neway, they sent me the little thing saying what address to post it to, wot payment etc.

So i wanted this computer asap and decided to get a bank cheque (one that doesn't need to clear) and send it to them that day. 1st class royal mail would have delivered within a day right so emailed the bloke sayin that he should have received it.

He replied after like a day that he hadnt actually got it yet which i thought was ****.

Meanwhile, that day i received an email that day for ebay sayin "if any seller tries to contact you outside of ebay to complete a deal then dont because its indicative of fraud" etc. I thought this email was a broad thing they send out to every1 just to cover their backsides, because after all a deal that is completed outside of ebay is one they wont get comission for.

any how i replied to ebay and asked if this was specific to me or just a general email, and if i had actually been defrauded etc.

ebay didnt reply until 4 days later by then it was far too late, my money had gone for good and there was no way of me getting it back! I wen to the bank to see what they could do and they said that the cheque i had sent had been cashed the day after i had sent it.

By this time had emailed the seller about 30 times with abuse and that if i dint get my computer id send the boys round lol etc.

Since then my old man sent out someone to find the ******, cuz my dad mates wit some gangster dude. we found him n i kicked the shit out of him, my dads mates destroyed his house. which is enough retribution for me.

Now im a marketer in london and its all good. just thought id warn ya bout ebay because they didnt give me f*** all help which was very upsettin.

Done lol

 

lol w....t....f?

Long story short, I lost US$350 + item as a seller. Never dealt with eBay since.

 

Damn im hearing this all the time on this other forum i read about a girl who bought a concert ticket from ebay cause all had been sold out, the guy had a 100% positive rating, he took her 200 pounds and she never saw it again, dunno what happened after that but next day she checks his rating drops all the way to 0, man you get a load of scumbags on ebay so watch out even from positively rated buyers

 

i have only used EBay once and it wasnt a very good experience.

 

so were all in agreement here!! ebay are f****** c*** b****** hu dont give s*** bout the rest of us LOL haha. i welcome any other stories you may have....im gettin quite an army of haters in here ha!

Jazz

 

its like anything, you have to be safe and take care with who you deal with. I have about 150 auctions in the last 6 years, only been taken on 2, which I should have been more careful with. Used my CC so I was protected.

 

ebay is a mutha f****! i use to use ebay a lot had around 106 feedback all 100%. I sold stuff on ebay like stamps or stuff i didn't need. I earnt some money then thought of buying a Louis Vuitton bastille bag, thought i grabbed it for a bargain but when i received it, i knew it was fake coz it was differnt color to my other bags then i report the seller to ebay, took them 2 weeks to reply(during the 2 weeks i emaield them 7 times). They said they would follow it up. Next few days found my account was banned, i was like wtf...they suspend me for shill bidding which i never did. At tht point i ddin't care all i wanted was my 700usd back but they said "we are sorry but your item you purchase is no longer proctected due to your suspended account. After that i never used ebay, they are all bull S@@! only care about money

 

umm...what is stitch?
I've actually had pretty good results with ebay both buying and selling. I guess Ive just had good luck.

 

I have bought a few things including a Van. The van wasn't quite as nice as I thought but with such a low buy-it-now I was willing to accept the risk.

I always check the sellers previous transactions to see how they handle a problem and use a C.C. so I can do a charge back if something happens.

 

I've always had positive experiences with Ebay -- never been taken once. Using Ebay is the same as purchasing anything online. You have to be careful about who you deal with. Their seller feedback, while possibly not a clear cut indication of their reputation, can still serve as a way to guage reputable sellers from shady scammers.

 

I appreciate that you have had good experiences with ebay and I cant deny that but for some reason Im cursed. I just think that its a risky game you play although the "buy it now" items are low risk.

However, with most online purchases, you know who you're dealing with, i mean you're not exactly going to buy from a company with a lame website that could have been knocked up in about 5 minutes are you.

Whereas the annonymity of the sellers, regardless of their rating, as amedno1 experienced! Plus i think that even selling on ebay is a joke, they charge you so much, and still charge you if you dont manage to sell an item.

I mite setup an auction where if you dont manage to sell something, then you dont get charged in any way! I tried to sell a car sound system on ebay, i put the price low (as they recommended) it had a few bids, but never met the reserve, which happened to be less than a third of what it was actually worth.

 

Is it a problem with eBay the company or with the buyer/seller ?

 

Both matey. Obviously ive gotta prob with frauds....doesnt everyone? But ebay is a wind up, and like other people have said, i would never go near them again!

Jazz

 

eBay. A badly set up business that is heavily exploited by scammers / fraud.

 

no, where not in agreement.
had a few problems with eBay, but for the most part it's been all good.
you just can't stop using eBay because of a scam artist seller, use some common sense, check feedback inside and out, up and down, email past buyers.
eBay is such a big part of the web, by boycotting them you would depriving yourself.

 

Its understandable to encounter a problem with a huge website like ebay every once and a while, the best way to make sure you don't run into issues like that again if you decide to use Ebay is by paying with a credit card. Credit card companies are really good at helping you out if you have a charge you want to dispute. Ive had to do that a couple of times and always got my money back for items I never received (though I've never had a problem with ebay)