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Budgie:
My only bad experience was with a seller.

Just before Christmas I bid & won two auctions for boxset DVDs but, and I don't know what it was, something just didn't feel right so I ran a Google search on the sellers address and it came back as a mail forwarding company in London.  :-k

I sent a nicely worded email to the seller saying I had found this and because of problems in the past I would like personal information to clarify who they were before sending any money.

All I got back was a nasty email telling me that they would not supply any info, I had bid and there for WILL pay or negative feedback would be left leading to my account being suspended?????  :?

So I sent all the details & emails to eBay and within 2 hours the sellers account had been suspended and the other 50+ auctions they had were withdrawn.  :mrgreen:  =D>

I've always wondered how many people did send money though because they had been registered for about 2 weeks.

thermidorthelobster:
The only problem I've had so far is with an item I bid on, as a working (but untested) item, and then noticed that the seller had previously bought it as an unworking item.  Therefore he was trying to sell something which was almost certainly broken as something which was almost certainly not broken.

I said his description was misleading, he said it wasn't.

You end up in a bit of a stalemate - if I were to have given him negative feedback, he'd have done the same to me.  It's a flaw in the system.

In the end I paid his listing fees as a goodwill gesture (after all, I had bid without checking first), and he presumably sold it to some other mug.

I'm happy to sell on eBay, but very wary about buying.  Better to use it as a way of contacting a company which can help you, then go and visit them.

David

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