Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Exasperated with Ebay

[Dave G]

Been trying to sell my monster 750 on ebay as my wife reckons four Ducatis are enough for anyone,and I do need the space I suppose.
Anyway,halfway through the week I get someone bidding on it,checked out their feedback,he'd bought nothing else but cheap designer wear and had a couple of really bad feedback messages,on looking around he was also bidding on other bikes at the same time,which didnt seem right,ebay's system was also telling me he was registered to another ebay therefore may not talk english.
When I questioned him about it he got all bolshy and said he could buy as many ducati's as he liked.I thought about this for a bit and decided he wasn't a serious bidder and cancelled his bid.About half an hour after this, my listing was ended with the buy it now option,by a newly registered bidder,probably the same guy being ****ed off at me,he then gave two different names in his email ,his email address ended .hu,which turns out to be hungary,and the contact address,which I'm glad I checked,had an unusual postcode,turns out to be the unique address of the alliance and leicester commercial bank,new bidder then gets arsey when I ask him for a UK landline number saying I'm too pushy and dosnt want to buy my bike.All of this has been reported to ebay and the bank.
This is all very exasperating up until now but whats made it all the more so is that I cant post it as a non paying bidder until at least a week is up and I cant get Ebay to respond to ANY sort of complaint.They really need some sort of priority system or telephone helpline for stuff like this.
I think this sort of crap is depressingly common on Ebay and I'll be a lot more guarded in the future,but this guy was targetting ducati's for some reason,so keep your wits about you if your selling on ebay at the moment.

...Oh and if anyone wants a monster 750dark,then do get in touch.

[Dave G]

bearing in mind he's already said he's not going to pay,I'm reluctant to send a sellers invoice as Ebay is telling me I have to,as it will have my address on it.
Anyone got any suggestions about that?

[TP]

Forward your correspondence with him to e-bay making a note of the fact that he's said he's not going to pay etc.

Did you have in your ad that you only accepted UK based buyers? That you will cancel bids for bad feedback etc? A lot of it will come down to what the conditions of sale were (the description of your ad)

E-bay should sort this out for you though, seems reasonably clear cut.

[HW]

I had some communication with eBay over an accidental additional purchase of an item where I was awarded a non-payment strike because I only bought the one. If that makes sense. Anyway, the seller was sympathetic and accepted that I accidentally "double clicked", but was unable to do anything about it. I contacted eBay and they cancelled the strike. They do respond, sometimes.

I only sold one bike on eBay and I put "uk buyers only - cash on collection only". I was not going to risk getting stung by cancelled cheques which can take several weeks to show up as dodgy, well after you were told by the bank the funds are in your account. They then just take the money back from you and you are the loser. The sale went fine, buyer turned up with a van and paid cash. I was a little nervous about it being all £50 notes mind you - but the bank accepted them (and put them in a bundle to one side!). I was half expecting a letter a week later saying I was being prosecuted for passing forged 50's.

The joy's and (potential) pitfalls of eBay!

[Edited on 28-9-2005 by HW]

[Dave G]

TP,to be honest it didnt occur to me,but I found it strange that he should get so snotty about being asked for a contact number as he would have to pick it up anyway.Maybe I'm being naive though,I'll know better next time.
If ebay themselves werent so aloof and difficult to contact this could have been sorted in a couple of minutes though and I think, that, more than anything is whats ****ing me off.
When you have to sort this stuff out using four options for each question it becomes very difficult.