OMG people on eBay :O

[Heatherj96]

Shocked at the message I have woken up to on eBay this morning -

Are you having a laugh you are asking for what you paid for it. Plus you bought it in last years sale. You should be ashamed of yourself!!!

Like WTF 🤣 what is WRONG with people

AIBU with my reply !

Actually I bought it this year from next for £16 
So let me break it down for you Someone pays £15.10 take of postage £2.95 and then PayPal fees 74p and £1 fee to eBay I end up with £10.41 and thats without the fuel to go and post it, so why don’t you get your facts right before messaging people 🙄 I am sick of giving stuff away for a few quid because people think they are oh’d something on here! I don’t pay out my hard earned money to then give clothes away for free to people on eBay, if you don’t want to pay the price for high street brands go to Primark.

I had an Ebay business years ago. Someone accused me of buying the products cheaper elsewhere first and then selling them at a higher price, to make money!!!!

Can you even believe it?

She went on to comment that I should be selling them cheaper so other people could benefit from the cheaper prices I was getting

OP, disengage, I repeat, disengage. You can't get through to some people. They won't turn around and suddenly 'get' it.

Oh my days, I’m going to have to hide this now because the amount of people not reading the thread and saying YABU, second hand etc is blowing my mind 🤯

They are nuts! If they think its overpriced, they should just not buy it!

There's always some.
I started a post about a £400 sofa I'd had less than a year and was selling for £150.
Someone came online to tell me I was a CF for charging people to get rid of my rubbish and it should be free because they were doing me a favour by helping me get rid of it 🤦🏻‍♀️
Charge what you want and see if it sells. It might, it might not.
You can always lower the price later.
Most of us are not in the financial situation to give away money when there is money to be made!
(And fees are a bitch, I sold a maternity bundle for £35 on ebay, "free" postage. EBay fees of £3.50, PayPal fees of about £1.50. Postage of £10! I got £20 in my own actual pocket for 10 maternity items including, dresses, leggings, hoodies and jeans).

'I would never buy something brand new for £15.10 that you can get brand new for £16.00'

Are you deliberately misquoting me?

😂🤣😂 Yes, you can get it for whatever price, IF it is still being sold in the shops. Which it isn’t 😂

That was someone misquoting something I posted before the op mentioned it was brand new and no longer available. So it was entirely reasonable with the information available.

(i actually said something from ebay, not something brand new)

Give the money to charity? You should have replied nah, I'm going to spend it on wine.

If only there was something people could do if they felt a price was too high, it's such a shame that someone is forced to buy something from eBay at a price higher than they would like. We should raise awareness of this terrible abuse.

Loads of times items are on there for more than someone originally paid, because the item is no longer in the shops and people want it. If I could find a dress for my little girl that I bought a couple of summers ago in her now-size I’d pay over the odds for it because I adored it and have never found one as nice since. You put the price on, they decide if they want to buy it, it’s pretty simple, ignore them OP!

@purplelila2

Nope wouldnt pay that for a second hand item of child's clothing from Ebay . YABU

But the point is - nobody is being forced to buy it. OP has set a price, some people would happily pay it and some people wouldn't.

If you saw something in a shop that you wanted but it was more than you were willing to pay, would you ask them to reduce the price?

I have seen loads of stuff on ebay that I think is overpriced but people have still bought it. It's about how much something is worth to the buyer.

It's a free country. If you want to put it for sell for £50 and someone is happy to pay that, good for you. If no one does, then the price is too high, and you won't sell.

Nothing cheeky about naming your price. As long as it's not medication or baby formula, which would be morally very wrong because people are desperate. Anything else, go for it.

It's funny that selling something close to new price is deemed cheeky by some when you bought it new, but selling something for more than you bought it second hand is judged very clever!

Who cares if you sell something still in the shops for more than the shop sells it anyway? Ikea products are a great example, and Ikea does deliver...

No one has to buy it. As long as you are honest about the condition and the price you expect, nothing cheeky or wrong. Buyers are free to make their own decision.

@tectonicplates but I just wanted rid quickly. The seller who ran a shop specifically sold decade themed clothing, she took photos on a mannequin with styling etc. Most importantly she already had a customer base.

I am shocked by the number of posts that suggest that the OP is being unreasonable by choosing how much to sell an item for. It is her item, she can list for £100 if she chooses and someone can freely choose to buy it at that price. Unless she misleads them by saying it is gold-plated it really up to potential buyers to decide the value of the item. For example, my child loses his favourite toy and a good condition toy is on ebay, I would happily pay the original price or more because the item would have more value to me.

We do not have a big brother controlling our decision-making yet.

She went on to comment that I should be selling them cheaper so other people could benefit from the cheaper prices I was getting

😂

I think I need to set up some kind of autoreply saying "I sell on EBay to make money, not to do you a favour". I'm not a charity. I'm an ordinary person selling some stuff because I need some extra money.

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To be fair, the vast majority of Ebay sales are on Buy It Now listings these days, including personal sellers. Hardly anyone actually does auctions any more. It's interesting that a lot of people still think of Ebay as an auction site when it mainly isn't.

She went on to comment that I should be selling them cheaper so other people could benefit from the cheaper prices I was getting

You really can't argue with stupidity. Some village somewhere is wondering just where their idiot is.

One thing I'm wondering about, though. These people who actually send these massages to Ebay sellers, do they also send the same messages to normal retail websites? Do John Lewis also receive emails saying "£20 for a lampshade, you've got to be kidding me"?

I wouldn't pay that much for a second hand item of children's clothing personally (and yes it is second hand, even if it has tags on it still).

But I think its really bizarre for someone to message you and have a go about it. I'd just take one look at the listing and think "nope, not for me" and move on, leaving it for someone who is prepared to pay that price to buy it.

Block the potential buyer and don't get drawn into arguing about it.

In fact maybe I should send a message to Harrods, saying "£6,000 for a diamond-encrusted watch, you must be having a laugh" and see if they reply.

@tectonicplates I remember seeing a comment directed at a small brand for not using Klarna or similar. Yes cause a small brand can operate using this model 🤷‍♀️

@tectonicplates that's interesting as I know there is a glut of business sellers on there selling cheap new items as buy it now who can post fast.

I tend to shop second hand so most things I buy are by auction. I largely sell by auction too but put a minimum price Im happy with as opposed to 99p. Currently bidding on garden furniture 🤞

YABU for writing 'oh'd' instead of owed (sorry)

I am sick of ebay selling TBH i had a Jo Malone candle from a Jo Malone counter that i hated the smell of so i thought i would sell it and the person who purchased it burned it and replaced it with what looked like brown candle wax and reported me to Ebay for selling a fake. Honestly i was ragers

I feel your rage. As an eBay seller I despair sometimes. People want your stuff but they don't want to pay for it. I've had messages telling me my postage is too high. I reply don't buy it then! If it is NWT is is exactly that. New, unworn. Provided you have kept it nice, it's new. I had a new without tags top delivered this week covered in stains, gone straight back. Tell her politely to do one and block her. Or tell her she can have it for free then block her and ignore her messages in future. You don't need customers like that.