@Grom: Don't worry, this month they only serve bagels on Thursdays.

"He's a freak, ladies and gentlemen! He's a freak!"

I want to talk to you about eBay issues.

you have ebay issues?

*dons crap austrian accent*
please mister tawalkana, lie back and rest now ja? now, int ya own time, tell me abowt ya mutter.

god I hate eBay now. I used to love iot a fewe years ago but its so mainstream and full of whining demanding idiots and con-artists. you try to to do it properly, sell decent stuff etc, and all you get is people complaining they can't do this or it doesnt worjk (when it does, its just them) and have you got the XYZ multi-flange adaptor that comes withthe retail version? I had a guy go to town threatening investigations because Carol described a 49p bath-mitt as a wash-glove in a bath-set he bougth off her.

and then there's the smart-alecs who make comments about what you're selling but aren't placing bids. and the time-wasters who don't pay. and the imbeciles who send you postal orders 3 weeks later. and the rip-ppff merchants who take your money and disappear. so far this year we've lost £65 on a suit that carol ordered from me off a guy who had brilliant feedback, he's vanisjhed without a trace, and £140 plus transport plus repairs on a grandfather clock that had benn bashed to pieces, we had to pay to be repaired after the guy vanished for 3 months, then he pops up from nowhere with threats and abuse and leaves US bad feedback when we're the one's who got ripped off.

2 years later I still don't have my rare Kolberg video from the States or numerous anime dvds that were supposed to go to my b-i-ls address in Houston that mysteriously never arrived.

I really hate eBay now. I've sold my last lot of computer kit on it and now that's it. we have 886 feedbacks, all positive apart from 2, one from a non-paying bidder who tried to get his own back, one from the robber above. And we still get grief from demanding idiots. we don't create a song and dance when we're buying stuff, or selling, yet almost every f***er else we come into contact with seems to? it's got a lot worse this year.

here's a standard one wthat really winds me up.

I sell software that comes my way on eBay, usually M$ stuff, XP, 2K, Office, stuff liek that. Every time I clealy state *this is original and genuine Micro$oft product with hologrammed cds and hologrammed COA* - clear enough you'd think. Every time without fail i get a dozen emails asking if its genuine, does it have the hologrammed COA? What? CAN'T YOU PEOPLE eff-effing READ?

I've now got to explain to some idiot who's whining that if you put pc-133 SD-RAM into a pc-100 board without changing the bus speed, it will show as half capacity. Some bloke is accusing me of selling mislabelled RAM, because he bought 128mb of Toshiba PC-133 off me and it's coming up as 64mb, duh!

I also have a guy moaning that Celeron 300 I sold him hasn't got any L2 cache on... when it clearly states on the auction that it is the first-run 300 with NO ie Zero cache on, the 128kb L2 went on the 300A, which the one I was selling was not.

Honestly, I'm so sick of Ebay its untrue. I get grief off these people every day but when I get burned no-one helps, all you get is that resolution service that does nothing. Most recently we had an idiot who bought, didnt pay, semt us an email purporting to call himself Yuah Kwan Fuxyussef (yeh really) and that he worked in a dockyard with *English white scum* who paid him in pennies, which he was going to DHL to us. Next thing he's posting feedback saying that we're racists and were abusing him! needless to say, he got nowhere and eBay removed his feedback and cancelled his account, but he has our address and names and we don't have his.

Carol got so sick of it she set up a new account for herself and uses that now.

Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/7/2005 5:59:25 AM

I recently bought a piece of Art from ebay. It arrived perfectly packaged as described with one major flaw - it wasn't signed. The description clearly said "signed by the artist" and this wasn't. So I complained and they said that if I paid for the postage to and from Japan (where the artist was), the artist would happily sign it. The painting cost me £140...the postage back and forth would cost me upwards of another £50. I feel ripped off so I complain to eBay, sit back and wait for a reply. Its been 3 weeks now...nothing...nada....zip....I swear that their customer service department have one email folder - "Trash". They don't care unless its costing them money.

Which is another thing I hate about eBay. I've been buying from the site for over 5 years now, but I've never sold anything...until a couple of months ago. I won a pair of gold circle REM tickets in a competition, but the bomb went off in london 2 days before the gig so it was cancelled and rearranged for another date - which I couldn't make. So I stuck the tickets on a last minute eBay auction and made £85 quid for them. Great! Or so I thought. The following month I get an invoice from eBay for over £8 for the sale! £8???!!! What a complete rip-off!!

So eventually after a mini tantrum I calmed down, paid it and moved on. One month later - another identical invoice from eBay arrives in my inbox. I complain and yet again they don't respond. It took me 3 weeks to resolve that issue, yet if the slimy little so-n-so's just provided a phone number I could have solved it in under 3 minutes. Ridiculous.