To think that Ebay sellers must have rotten luck

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I buy regularly on Ebay and often when things are delayed in being sent or if they don’t get sent at all, sellers often have quite elaborate stories as to why. I have just had one where I won a coat (new with tags) for a fraction of the price that it should have cost and a few days after I paid I messaged the seller to ask if the coat had been dispatched yet and she sent me this really long message back about how her husband had driven to Scotland (without her) to see a friend and had taken the coat with him but the car packed up on the way so the car was taken away with my coat! I also won some shorts last summer (again new with tags for quite a low price) and the sellers dog chewed them before she could post them to me! My favourite was when I won a Ted Baker purse (brand new with tags at a low price) and I messaged the seller and her house had been burgled so the purse was gone, but when I looked on her page the next week the purse was being sold again but at a higher price (I did laugh at this point). I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered eBay sellers with such bad luck?

Yes, poor eBay sellers. I bought a designer dress on there for under £20, since I'm a night owl and often swoop in on bargains that end in the night. Around 6am she sent me a message saying that ink had been spilled all over the dress. Didn't explain what she was doing up that early on a Sunday with a pot of ink. Calligraphy? I asked her to send me a photo and she never did reply.

this has happened to be a few times too. I always seem to buy from sellers with children suddenly rushed into hospital or family members in intensive care...

I find this disgusting behaviour I sell stuff on eBay and have sold some branded items for FAR less than they are worth but I have always posted them as they were fun fair and square. The way I see it is if you have a minimum you will let things go for them start the bidding at that or put in a caveat so that the item doesn’t sell below your minimum.

Buyers can be really cheeky though I had a brand new pair of converse trainers that are £50 and I had listed them with a starting bid of £15 which I thought was reasonable but the amount of offers I got, some of which were just ridiculous (£5), was unbelievable!

I'm only surprised none of it involved a deceased grandparent - tricky ebayers seem to have an inexhaustible supply of them

At least as a buyer you've largely got ebay in your corner, though; it's the endless genuine but stuffed-over sellers I feel mostly sorry for

I don't doubt that you have experienced some ahem unlucky eBay sellers. But conversely I, as a seller, seem to experience an unusually disproportionate number of unlucky buyers when it comes to receiving their post!

Well... I could counter about the rotten luck of buyers. The ones who never have stuff arrive ... unless it cost < £7.

This is why I only sell at buy it now or best offer prices, auctions are a gamble and sellers should suck it up if they lose out IMO, or be upfront about the price they're expecting to achieve.

I’ve had it with an amazon seller just yesterday. Bought some bird seed for £10, got email saying dispatched then only a few hours later messaged by seller saying refund processed as courier unable to deliver to me . Suddenly the same product is now listed for £25. Just wanting to jack up price, so dishonest!

I only sell using buy it now and send everything 2nd class signed for. I don’t ever bid on things either.

Ugh...

I hate eBay.

I'm currently selling a beautiful, not a mark on it 100% cotton vintage Burberrys trench coat in camel with a gorgeous lining. For £50 plus shipping. Bargain. Most others are on for £250+.

Buyer today asked for it for £40. I confirmed it was plus shipping. She agreed. Sent invoice. Time waster asked why I'd added shipping

I'm one of the genuine sellers out there. I think you get CF buyers and sellers in fairly equal proportions. But as someone upthread said, at least eBay is in the buyers corner.

I'm sorry to hear what happened to you though. It's a pain in the ass when you deal with time wasters.

I once listed something that only sold when relisted. The listing ended and someone one before I realised my husband had added said item to a charity bag that had since been taken away from outside our house. Honest truth but I expect the buyer didn’t believe me!

100% true eBay bad luck seller story!

I was once packaging up a really lovely Monsoon girls playsuit, decided to trim a bit off the plastic bag I was packing it in and accidentally snipped a hole in the fabric ☹️. I let the buyer know and refunded her, but I could tell she didn't believe me.

I stitched it up (almost invisible) and sent it to the charity shop, probably ended up with a reseller back on eBay.

Won not one!

Yes just recently some boots I won got taken in a house burglary

Why not set a buy now I’d of happily paid more than I won them on auction for?

@DazedandConcerned if the coat is a 10 - link please!!!!

I find this disgusting behaviour

You must have a really, really low bar for disgust

it's Ebay, not life and death (although clearly death could be a good reason for not completing the sale), it's understandable if buyers don't want to let their stuff go for less than they think it's worth. I know the OP is being lighthearted, have a laugh and move on is the way to go on this imo

Well everybody knows that boots are the first thing a burglar looks for, bookbuddy .

I hope they hadn't left a pair of boots out in full view where they could be seen through the front windows?! Just ASKING to be burgled!!

@confused202

The other side of the coin is where buyers contacting sellers on the grounds that they do not want to pay as "the cat or baby bidded" [sic]

I 'won' some curtains once & seller just emailed to say she wasn't sending them as I hadn't paid enough!

She relisted & I 'won' them again the next week & she still wasn't happy with the £30ish so she ranted at me & refunded again.

Not many people would have wanted those curtains so god knows what she did!

@nevernotstruggling Sorry it's about a 16-18. I'm an 8 and it's a very very relaxed fit. It depends on how you like your long trench coats to fit.

I'll post the link when eBay returns it for sale in case anyone wants it. Honestly, such a lovely cost!

100% true ebay seller here. But genuinely I took 3 parcels to work with me all packaged and addressed ready to take to post office on the way home but I got the call at lunchtime that my dad had just had a stroke so I left without thinking and travelled 100 miles home to see him. There the parcels remained till I was back in the office. Thankfully the buyers understood and left me good feedback - and my dad is OK now.

Sometimes it genuinely does happen.

I sold a new without tags jumper on there a few weeks ago, it only sold for 99p, I was gutted as it is really nice and just sat in my boys wardrobe never been touched. The buyer won it... I waited and waited, sent her the eBay generic reminder for payment... and waited some more. FIFTEEN days after sale, the buyer messages me "do not want any more" just that. So I cancelled the listing. I couldn't even leave the buyer bad feedback because I had cancelled the sale. They could have had such a bargain too.

But who does that? If I was buying something for less than a quid I would've just bought it even if I'd changed my mind. Well I wouldn't have changed my mind. I'd won it, I pay for it.
It was 99p. The postage was £2:90 and it would've cost me £3 to send it. So I would've made nothing on it by the time I wrapped it and drove to the post office. But I would never have withdrawn from the sale just because it was low.

I've never experienced sellers with bad luck though, but it's funny reading all the bad luck yours have had 😂😂😂

I love how it's more important to comment on my use of language (maybe disgusting was a little over zealous) than actually on the point of the thread!

i bought some leggings that never arrived asked seller where they were, he said would ask royal mail and get back to me.. 3 days later i recieve a envelope that was sent signed for from them .. empty envelope Haha i just did a return case with ebay and got my money back, they obviously tried to cheat the system but i wasnt falling for it haha.