Henchmen4Hire
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Apr 4, 2019 13:26:13 GMT -5
Quick update: Ebay totally sided with the buyer. And of course they kept the seller fees. ebay. Call eBay and raise a ruckus about it. As long as you're polite about it and ask to speak with a manager if the first person is no help, it could turn out in your favor eventually. It sucks, but the reality of the matter is that eBay sides with buyers pretty well automatically because it's simply cheaper for them to do that and deal with the relatively few sellers who are wronged in the process, but take the time to call and explain why they were wronged by a unscrupulous buyer. No guarantee that it will work out for you by doing that, but you literally only have a bit if time to lose at this point and potentially a good bit to gain. I've tried that before, I get connected to someone in a foreign country who has zero clue what I'm talking about. lol
That's why I brought up trying to explain articulation to a customer service rep, that's exactly what I'd have to do, and based on previous experiences, they give zero craps about it. It's an obvious scam to me who's familiar with what a frikkin' action figure is, but that's almost never the case with their reps.
I lost like $15 or something because of this, but it's not worth arguing for hours with a rep I can't even understand just to get half of that back. I'm just gonna wipe off the crap the buyer marked the figures with and sell them again, this time as "used" for obvious reasons.
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rydiddy
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Post by rydiddy on Apr 20, 2019 11:32:09 GMT -5
What's bull crap now is if you except a return and don't complain eBay keeps their %10 fee also
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Apr 23, 2019 11:26:39 GMT -5
Coming from just a buyer on there, I haven't been able to win an auction in a month. And it's not from a lack of trying. A couple sellers pulled their items because a bidding war wasn't breaking out. A few ended early, accepting lower offers than I was willing to pay. Most I just lose without getting a bid in. I'm instantly outbid 70% of the time lately. Had to have encountered an autobidder, doubled the bid of one item with 4 days left and never got back out of the bidding page with the high bid. With only two other people watching, no way someone was lurking around that at the same exact time.
Now they've changed the watchlist on the mobile site, buttons don't even work to scroll thru the pages. Horrible look to it, old one was MUCH BETTER. Wrote them and said the new version sucked monkey a**.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jun 10, 2019 11:31:42 GMT -5
OMG just got freaking robbed out of a lot. Going to place a bid, plenty I felt to avoid getting incrementally outbid at the last second. As I tried to enter it, the site said my session had expired and had to sign back in. With my anger I couldn't even react in time before it ran out so I lost thanks to that d*mn site! And nobody else stepped in to bid either, someone got an easy one...
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Bpatrick
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Post by Bpatrick on Jun 24, 2019 15:04:29 GMT -5
The customer service with eBay is awful and I recently told an uncaring phone rep how frustrating it is that there really isn't much protection for the seller.
Getting back into figure collecting in the past year, I started regretting having too much stuff so I started selling off lots of movies, games, clothes, stuff that I had too much of that was sitting around. The Offer option is a blessing and a curse because there are some people that just turn it into a game or offer amounts that are less than what it would cost to ship, if I didn't put safeguards in.
Had this guy constantly haggling me but he would buy a few things where I could combine shipping and so I would take reasonable offers. I sent him three different purchases of sealed games and coincidentally, he asks for a refund for the most expensive game claiming the packaging came damaged and lecturing me on packaging, despite him buying many things from me sent that way and neither of the other items were damaged. Trying to give benefit of the doubt, I asked him for pictures because if it was just some case damage, the brand new game is still fine and shouldn't really warrant an entire refund but it didn't seem worth me having to pay to have him send it back. He ignored the pictures request so I called eBay. The guy on the line told me to end it - either by asking for the return and paying for him to send this thing I didn't want back, or issuing the refund, then I can open a dispute and get the sale amount back. When he posed it like that, it seemed like less of a headache to issue the refund when the deadline came.
Couldn't find the option and called their help again. Lady told me I was misinformed - I can only dispute the claim if I get it sent back. Felt that even had I done that, the process would not have been easy. I get screwed pretty regularly with people spamming offers, then either ghosting when looking for payment or claiming issues. Had one guy recently make offers on four things. Only one was reasonable and when it was the only one I took, despite his "Ready to Pay" message in all of them, and it being the lowest price item, suddenly he claimed his credit cards didn't work.
I know they aren't popular here but I remember the story Curt Hawkins told on one of his earliest podcasts where he sold off a bunch of Mattels when he was on the indies, a lot for like $500 - the guy claimed something to return them and then had sent the tracking label on like junk mail to try to scam Hawkins, who lucked out and caught the "delivered" return weighed nothing.
I have been pleasantly surprised with some of the money I've gotten getting rid of clutter but when stuff goes wrong, it definitely is frustrating and makes me question using it.
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Post by PJ on Jun 26, 2019 11:01:41 GMT -5
Late to this, but as someone who never sold anything and only buy stuff for my daughter or stuff that was from my childhood (70’s) what’s to stop someone from buying new loose figures and then returning their own broken/scuffed figures in return? Seems to me ebay isn’t worth the risk.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jun 26, 2019 11:06:39 GMT -5
Late to this, but as someone who never sold anything and only buy stuff for my daughter or stuff that was from my childhood (70’s) what’s to stop someone from buying new loose figures and then returning their own broken/scuffed figures in return? Seems to me ebay isn’t worth the risk. That particular person's level of moral decency?
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Jun 26, 2019 11:48:50 GMT -5
Late to this, but as someone who never sold anything and only buy stuff for my daughter or stuff that was from my childhood (70’s) what’s to stop someone from buying new loose figures and then returning their own broken/scuffed figures in return? Seems to me ebay isn’t worth the risk. Nothing. I've had it happen to me.
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garbagemon
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Post by garbagemon on Jun 26, 2019 13:28:59 GMT -5
Every time I consider selling on ebay, I read stories like this, and even their "sell it fee free" offers lose their possible charm. Being scammed by some greasy pit stain in a basement somewhere like some of you other folks have been just makes me wish you could mail them out a fist to the face! There are some good facebook groups for wrestling figures of all vintages that are run by some very good admins, perhaps that's the place to take loose figs. Ebay has been great for me as a buyer, but I have never sold a thing there, and thanks to stories like these, don't plan to in the near future.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jul 3, 2019 15:01:49 GMT -5
Any ideas on how I can lose a bid I increased by $4 I placed with 3 seconds left, by a d*mn penny!? Can't see the timing of the auction bids came in because the mobile site only lists when the participants entered their initial bid. Got cheated out of making a lucrative offer due to their policy.
Paid close attention to three auctions in recent days. Let the first pass and lost the others by "questionable means". Seems to be my luck. The more I splurge, the more stuff I suddenly find. Try to be financially conservative and I lose my crap.
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Jul 3, 2019 16:24:36 GMT -5
Any ideas on how I can lose a bid I increased by $4 I placed with 3 seconds left, by a d*mn penny!? Can't see the timing of the auction bids came in because the mobile site only lists when the participants entered their initial bid. Got cheated out of making a lucrative offer due to their policy. Paid close attention to three auctions in recent days. Let the first pass and lost the others by "questionable means". Seems to be my luck. The more I splurge, the more stuff I suddenly find. Try to be financially conservative and I lose my crap. Bots. You can buy software and set it to autobid up to a certain amount. So as soon as someone bids, your bid outdoes them, up to the max amount you set. It's the same way people always get sneakers that sell out in 2 minutes.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jul 3, 2019 17:39:13 GMT -5
Any ideas on how I can lose a bid I increased by $4 I placed with 3 seconds left, by a d*mn penny!? Can't see the timing of the auction bids came in because the mobile site only lists when the participants entered their initial bid. Got cheated out of making a lucrative offer due to their policy. Paid close attention to three auctions in recent days. Let the first pass and lost the others by "questionable means". Seems to be my luck. The more I splurge, the more stuff I suddenly find. Try to be financially conservative and I lose my crap. Bots. You can buy software and set it to autobid up to a certain amount. So as soon as someone bids, your bid outdoes them, up to the max amount you set. It's the same way people always get sneakers that sell out in 2 minutes. That's about what I figured. Seen the ads on the site but I'd rather lose out doing things honestly than depend on our future robot overlords to come into crap I don't need anyway.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jul 18, 2019 17:44:46 GMT -5
Just a question for those who have more experience:
I received a seller-issued offer for an item I was watching. It gave me an option to counter, so I sent two offers $2-5 less and was automatically rejected. I checked today and the seller cancelled their offer and is apparently open to buyer offers again. I sent a third offer right after I received the email and was auto-rejected again. Did I get blocked?
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Quazimoto
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 18, 2019 17:49:43 GMT -5
Just a question for those who have more experience: I received a seller-issued offer for an item I was watching. It gave me an option to counter, so I sent two offers $2-5 less and was automatically rejected. I checked today and the seller cancelled their offer and is apparently open to buyer offers again. I sent a third offer right after I received the email and was auto-rejected again. Did I get blocked? Probably not block. I believe you'll see a notice pop up saying something to the effect that you're not allowed to bid or buy from that seller if you're actually blocked. Most likely the seller set their level for automatic offer rejection above what you're offering is all.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 18:00:22 GMT -5
Late to this, but as someone who never sold anything and only buy stuff for my daughter or stuff that was from my childhood (70’s) what’s to stop someone from buying new loose figures and then returning their own broken/scuffed figures in return? Seems to me ebay isn’t worth the risk. Some form of this happened to me about a year ago. I sold a MOC TMNT figure, a guy basically pulled a switcheroo and returned one that was also MOC (but broken inside the box). It had obvious tells and damage that wasn't on the original, things didn't line up the same and so on. I actually managed through live chatting with ebay and showing them the pictures to get them to see that the buyer had committed fraud and thankfully I was able to keep the money from my sale.
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Jul 18, 2019 20:47:24 GMT -5
Just a question for those who have more experience: I received a seller-issued offer for an item I was watching. It gave me an option to counter, so I sent two offers $2-5 less and was automatically rejected. I checked today and the seller cancelled their offer and is apparently open to buyer offers again. I sent a third offer right after I received the email and was auto-rejected again. Did I get blocked? Pretty much what the other guy said. He set an auto reject for offers. Say he set it for $30. You send an offer of $28, it will reject on it's own. Now if you send for $30, he will have to reject or accept it manually.
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Post by rkmo: 9 Month Warning on Jul 18, 2019 20:55:35 GMT -5
Just a question for those who have more experience: I received a seller-issued offer for an item I was watching. It gave me an option to counter, so I sent two offers $2-5 less and was automatically rejected. I checked today and the seller cancelled their offer and is apparently open to buyer offers again. I sent a third offer right after I received the email and was auto-rejected again. Did I get blocked? Pretty much what the other guy said. He set an auto reject for offers. Say he set it for $30. You send an offer of $28, it will reject on it's own. Now if you send for $30, he will have to reject or accept it manually. The timing just seemed suspicious, canceling their offer after me trying to negotiate it down. I'll send an offer and see what happens. Dealt with the same seller a few weeks ago. Sent an offer and didn't take 2 minutes to accept it. 8/2 EDIT: Won't bump for this but d*mn I need to vent. Watched for 6 days a lot I wanted. Sent an offer hoping to negotiate at least, but got declined and got the impression seller wanted an actual auction to drive up the price. So I waited, watched a couple bids come in and disappear somehow. The day, the hour, the minute, the second comes for me to enter a bid (as their monkey a** system lends itself to be). It ends and awards someone else the exact bid I wanted to do, no effort made by them to update the highest available bid or nothing. Just closes shop, jumps seconds ahead on my end. It would SOOOOO much better to operate more of a blind auction. The system places a price range for an item, the potential buyers then claim out of that the highest they are willing to go, not knowing what others have done and, typically, one chance per item. Give sellers more of a fair market price, make buyers offer what they are WILLING to pay, not what they WANT to pay.
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Post by LA Times on Sept 7, 2019 23:19:17 GMT -5
One of my auctions received a bid from somebody with 0 feedback and a join date of September 7 2019. Is that something to be suspicious of?
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Post by LK3 on Sept 8, 2019 4:22:27 GMT -5
One of my auctions received a bid from somebody with 0 feedback and a join date of September 7 2019. Is that something to be suspicious of? Or it could be someone like me who doesn’t have an account, and unlike me actually decided to make one. Just sayin. I’m sure the possibility exists of it being suspicious.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Sept 8, 2019 7:58:44 GMT -5
One of my auctions received a bid from somebody with 0 feedback and a join date of September 7 2019. Is that something to be suspicious of? I was wary of this as well. Then I would put "No bidders who have less than 25 feedback, please" in the description.
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