to wonder what on earth this is about?

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this . Have I missed something? Why would someone want this?

ohh hairy what did you say? Let us know any response

"He may have great feedback but that does not mean he has great seller feedback! When I searched under his seller name and chose 'sold items only', nothing came up - and only one unsold ended item - so presumably his previous feedback is for buying?"

He has 60 feedbacks from buyers to him as a seller.

Bizarre

Bruffin - Thank you so much for that JJ link - I flippin love that woman!

Oh I see I thought I saw one on his recent feedback (most seller feedbacks are old according to the profile) but howcome the sold items didn't show up on search?

All of the feedback is from things they've bought, not sold.

Can't wait to see what he says

I was looking at trousers for DS the other day for potty training and was just adding things to my watch list without reading the descriptions

"All of the feedback is from things they've bought, not sold."

no it is not
There are 4 headings for feedback

Feedback as a seller (60)
Feedback as a buyer and (481)
total feedback (541)
Feed back left for others (574)

The feedback as a seller and buyer are from people who have bought and sold from him. ie
as a seller there is feedback

"Thank you Richard, thrilled with fabric- brill ebayer"

someone has bought fabric from him and left feed back.

My theory (strokes chin in erudite fashion) is that his kids have been reeeaallly naughty, and so he threatened that if they didn't buck up their ideas he'd sell their wendy house etc. They didn't, so he had to put up a convincing ebay ad to fool them into behaving, but not risk actually selling much-loved stuff.

My only thought is that maybe it's a punishment for his DC(s) - he's told them he's put their toys in eBay but obviously doesn't really want to sell them, so has just made it look like he's put them on there. Otherwise I'm not really sure why you'd bundle all those items in together, aside from anything else!

Ah, AwesomeWellies, x-post!

I think it's probably a joke rather than scam. To settle an argument, I bet, with his wife, that most people don't bother looking at the descriptions and only skim-read the title. So he could stick any old rubbish on there which at first glance looked like something plausible and get a bid on it.

4 out of the first 5 replies on this thread proved that pretty well

If it was a scam, it's a pretty bad one.

I asked "so you are actually selling just the picture of these items and not the items themselves??

Can't wait to see if I get a reply

Well his other two listings mention emigrating at Christmas - is it possible he just doesn't give a a flying fuck because he won't be here to have to deal with the fallout?

keep us posted!

Will do

Is there some time limit then on the Sold Items feature? I've often wondered that.

I only use the eBay iPhone app so only saw the 'latest feedback'.

LynetteScavo Tue 18-Oct-11 21:32:57

Makes me want to bang my head on the wall, seeing glued down wooden track. The whole point is that kids develop their track building skills (plus a lot of other skills along the way) by building different tracks themselves!!! angry

My DCs are the opposite, they happily spend hours putting tracks together all over the sodding house and hardly any time playing on it.

Ach, I didn't scroll fully, but thanks for pointing out my mistake.

I think you are mistaken. The listing was revised on 17th October, and the title and description were changed. So I guess, originally the seller listed the actual item. Then, part way into the auction, a friend or someone they know offered to buy the item instead. They wanted to tell to the friend, but didn?t know how to cancel the listing, so they changed it to a listing for a photocopy in the hope that it wouldn?t sell.

I doubt someone selling a boat for £6000 would run a 99p scam.

HauntyMython

Yes, the glued down option definitely has the advantage of avoiding the track strewn all over the floor. :)

muddlingmacking:

IMO: putting the track together = playing
IYO: putting the track together= chore to be gone through before playing

My kids loved making their own tracks, and found the actual track building fun. So it never occurred to me to glue it down!

Weird! I'm going to message them too and will report back if I get a reply!