Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

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[pigtin]

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people

[woljags]

I bought something last year using paypal and they took it so many times they empted my current account and then charged me to put it back

[pigtin]

Frightening isn't it. I've just had a worrying statement for my credit card which shows an amount being taken,refunded-then taken again by Paypal.
Won't know for certain what they have done until next statement.
These people are really beginning to worry me...

Don.

[Rick]

I just fell into the same problem, forgot to update my card, paid for something (bought on behalf of someone else, typical) and its going thru as an echeque thing, so a 9 day wait why couldn't it just have refused to send it til I'd updated the card!?!?!??!?!!!

R
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[pigtin]

Just had a message from a dodgy supplier who advertised something he obviously hadn't got, I had the money refunded but it was an xmas pressie and not time to re-order... I gave him a neutral feedback.
He didn't give me a feedback: but now 6 weeks later he asks me for a mutual withdrawal of feedbacks.
The implied threat was that if I don't withdraw he would give me a bad feedback: I chickened out.
Fortunately ebay have now addressed this problem and will not allow sellers to give feedbacks... Just in case you wondered why?

Don.

[Rick]

[pigtin]

True... must confess I've always been lucky with buyers, but that doesn't mean I always will be. Unfortunately if the rules had remained unchanged the feedback system would have been worthless with more and more sellers now indulging in tit-for-tat threats. IMHO

Can anyone come up with a better way round the problem?

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[Penman]

Hi

[pigtin]

I only read it in the paper, perhaps the're going to do it in the future
Can't always trust the 'Dead Tree' press.

[Rick]

its definitely on the way, I read it on the beeb site somewhere today

RJ
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[Penman]

Hi
In view of the fact that some sellers of high price items won't accept bids, from low feedback holders, without message communication first. it could hit sellers and ebay by reducing the number of bids/bidders and thus could depress prices.

GET YOUR FEEDBACK SCORE, NOW, WHILE YOU CAN.

[ukdave2002]

I have had some amazing finds on eBay and have to say apart from 1 guy who refused to sell me something even though I was the highest bidder (because he said the "reserved" price had not worked!!) I have bought and sold with little problem.
I suspect that perhaps the stuff I tend to buy and sell is 99% classic car bits, and that in dealing with other "classic" minded folk who on the whole are a great bunch and so present less problems than average traders. I have had on more than 1 occasion additional bits given to me when I have been to collect stuff.
As a practical armchair auto jumble it is great, but can't quite replace the expirience of rooting through a box of stuff at a real autojumble!

[pigtin]

95% of my dealings have involved classic car parts and I've never had a problem, it's only when trying to purchase something else.
Tried to buy a football shirt for a relative, an Xmas present, a week from xmas having had no reply to six emails I reported him... how many people give up, don't report, and never use ebay again?