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Is Something Fishey Going On
DiscoveRay:
This one's free:
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Ray
muddymart:
this also can happen so beware !
i sold an item on ebay last year, a petrol chainsaw to be exact. and at £122 , echo top of the range, check arrived, cleared ,then i posted the item boxed,receipt,warranty card,oil,(this is in september)
A few weeks later the guy says he hasnt got it??
I emailed him saying why leave it 3 weeks? no answer.
He threatened me with police action, so i just left it to him,having lost the proof of postage (royal mail standard parcels) i knew it was his word against mine.
November the chainsaw arricved back at my house, in a box,used and dirty.
4 days after the new year, the police came and asked me to go to the station saying i had obtained property by deception? i gave them the chainsaw, and i have to go back to see what the result is.
when i asked him to pay through paypal he didn't want to , now i know why.
from my experience now,and having a couple of hours in the cells im coming off ebay and only dealing with people i can really trust.
jiffyman:
I'm never doing cheques again. If they want my stuff, I'm only going with Paypal. Much safer. Plus I always wait for the last 30 seconds to bid myself.
Baby_Rhino:
--- Quote from: "muddymart" ---this also can happen so beware !
i sold an item on ebay last year, a petrol chainsaw to be exact. and at £122 , echo top of the range, check arrived, cleared ,then i posted the item boxed,receipt,warranty card,oil,(this is in september)
A few weeks later the guy says he hasnt got it??
I emailed him saying why leave it 3 weeks? no answer.
He threatened me with police action, so i just left it to him,having lost the proof of postage (royal mail standard parcels) i knew it was his word against mine.
November the chainsaw arricved back at my house, in a box,used and dirty.
4 days after the new year, the police came and asked me to go to the station saying i had obtained property by deception? i gave them the chainsaw, and i have to go back to see what the result is.
when i asked him to pay through paypal he didn't want to , now i know why.
from my experience now,and having a couple of hours in the cells im coming off ebay and only dealing with people i can really trust.
--- End quote ---
That's awful!
But whenever i sell an item valued over £20 I send it recorded delivery (and charge the buyer for it!) as that way its royal mails fault if anything goes wrong.
landybabe:
Would be nice if sellers all accepted postal orders too.
I know buyers have to pay a bit extra but its the non paypal users
best way of sending payment (recorded, obviously).
Couple of extra days for a seller to be sure of getting their money shouldn't be that difficult.
When I've sent Po's in the past I've understood that I'm gonna have to wait a couple of days longer than I would have if I'd used Paypal. Don't expect sellers to post goods out just because I say I've sent payment.
Patience is a Virtue :wink: :)
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