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Originally Posted by Ebayorbust I personally don't but one of my friends tends to do this after a night out on the beers.
One of his many party tricks. Regarding selling, I never meet buyers face to face. If they don't wish to purchase via mail order then it's no deal. |
I once saw a very cheap (the seller did not know its value) but incredibly rare item, which was pretty hefty so the seller was charging £13 for postage (first class recorded). The seller worded it completely wrong, so even though it was offered at a very good price, it had never sold and was just repeatedly relisted for 5 months.
Once I looked at the listing, I noticed that they were just down the road from me and asked if I could collect, but they flat out refused collection, due to fearing for their own personal safety. They were being really pissy about it and in the end just decided that they did not want to deal with me any more (my motivation for collection was so that I could pick it up without worrying about my stealth account details btw, and not be screwed when the parcel is returned to the sorting office and I don't have ID for the phake identity).
So I made a new account/identity and asked them if they could use a service with full tracking for only £3.49 and that would have it delivered to a store instead for collection at my convenience (Collect+), and they refused as it is apparently "too much hassle" (really? When they could just drop it off at their corner shop rather than queuing for ages at the post office, and get full tracking rather than delivery confirmation?).
In the end I decided to just go with it and paid over the odds for the postage, but added an alternative address in my eBay account so that I could pick it up. The seller shipped the item but it never turned up, and the seller just pathetically put all the burden on me to do something about it, telling me to call Royal Mail every day as they had done their part, andf suggesting that it is my fault for using a "strange" address (lol, what a nutjob).
I tell the seller that it is THEIR responsibility to make sure that the item gets to me and that I want a refund by the 15th day if it still does not arrive. So day 15 comes and I ask for my refund. They tell me that they will have tio claim from Royal Mail before I get any money back, which is obviously not on as it can take months for this to happen. So I open a dispute and let the seller know that it will affect their account and this is the consesquence for being such a POS seller, and they cockily reply to say that it will somehow take longer to get my refund from eBay rather than waiting for them to refund me after Royal Mail reimburses them (are they on crack or something?), and they uploaded tracking showing item still undelivered (which automactially esclated the dispute to customer support...).
So 2 hours later, there I was with my refund. I took the opportunity to rub it in the seller's face that this could have all been avoided if they had simply allowed collection or used the cheaper but superior postal service that I suggested earlier. I hope that they learned a lesson.
Surely enough, a few days later they had become NARU, and a few days after that the item arrived. I supposed that I took advantage of this. I messaged the seller saying that they could come and pick it up from me if they really wanted it back. They did not reply so I just kept the item