Cheeky bugger

http://minilien.fr/a0jdev

D.

 

Fraud? TOG bid on the item and, implicit in that bid, agreed to pay £50
for P&P. After agreeing to pay £50 for p&p, TOG then told the bloke that
he wanted to collect it instead and the bloke agreed, but at a cost of
£50. The seller might be a chancing bastard but he was perfectly within
his rights to set the fee for collection at whatever he wished as
collection was never offered as part of the original deal.

Think of it as the EDS model, the original deal is cheap but, by ****,
you get screwed on the contract changes.


Anyway, I was more making the point that this is one of the arguments
that comes up fairly regularly on upce and there are always two camps
and they are never reconciled.

Ergo, it's a fairly pointless discussion.

 

You can probably use the one on this page

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/feedback-abuse-withdrawal.html

 

Once again: No, he wasn't. It's against Ebay's rules to charge excessive
p&p. And £50 for something that costs a tenner to post is what I call
excessive.

Do you need the link again?

 

Ballcocks....

 

Presume away.

What bit of: "I have a Ducati" failed to register with you?

 

Quite possible not to read it.

 

You'd have no problem with paying "Posting and Packing" charges for an item
the seller was happy for you collect (and as such, cost them nothing)? Yes,
the posting fees were shown and there was no option for collection - but the
seller then offered collection, and you still think it's ok for them to
charge you for a 'Posting and Packing' service that they will never actually
do?

I suspect you, as anyone would, would be more than a little irritated.

Also, it was mentioned about 4 times throughout the thread (including in the
very first post) that these would be useful spares for TOGs own bike - who
ever mentioned resale? And no intention of paying for them? The silencers
sold, for £30 - there was then to be a £50 service charge for posting and
packing, the seller tried to charge that service charge, despite agreeing
not to carry out that service.

 

Just wondering - how do you ensure that buyers don't pay by Paypal, as they
are entitled to do, on collected items.
You're not allowed to state in a lisitng that its Cash only on collect
items, so how do you personally get round this?

Shiela

 

Yes you are.
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

Permitted
Sellers may offer to accept:
- Cash for in-person transactions

 

Unfortunately the aptly-named Spacker tends to run off on these flights
of fantasy....

Ding

 

I give up.

If it is not British Basketball League then what is it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBL_(disambiguation)

 

Blocked Bidders List.

 

You can "offer" to accept cash, but what if they decide to pay by Paypal
after winning a collect only item, which they are entitled to do?

Or indeed if they insist on paying by Paypal and refuse to pay cash on
collection?

Shiela

 

If they pay by Paypal I refund and point them to my auction terms which they
should have read and not bid if they didn't agree. Fortunately I have yet to
come across an arsehole who would behave like this and I imagine they are
far and very few between. If I did come across one I will refund and file an
unpaid item report.

It does not specifically say anywhere that you can not only stipulate cash
for collections, only that you must offer Paypal in your listings - which i
do. I have spoken to my Ebay account manager about this and he agreed that
it is fine for me to only offer cash as a payment option if people want to
collect in person. Also as per my request he confirmed this in an email -
though whether that will be accepted by Ebay in the event of any problems I
do not wish to test obviously

 

But Niel thinks it's a jolly jape to report sellers for that sort of thing?

 

Nope, I don't have time or inclination to go around shopping competitors and
other sellers for fun. I have enough on my plate running my own business to
be an Ebay netkop.

 

I've tried to clarify this with Ebay myself by asking them specifically if
a listing would be pulled if it stated "Cash only on collected items", but
they finally wore me down by sending reply after reply which completely
ignored the actual question, so I gave up!

Shiela

 

Aye that's why it's so helpful to have an account manager when you're a gold
powerseller. IIRC the absolutely no cash rule was not implemented on the UK
Ebay site (yet) like it has been on the US Site. Once or if it is I will
simply stop offering a collection service & everyone will have to pay for
and have items shipped.

Collections are a pain in the arse anyway for me as I do not have shop
premises so have to sort out a time to meet people at my stores. So many
people don't seem to comprehend what an 'appointment' is.

 

Yes, I would. A price is a price. And, as you still seem to be dodging
the issue, it's against Ebay's rules to load the p&p.

Suppose he'd stipulated £500 in his t&cs? You're not seriously
suggesting I should have paid that?