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.

Reminds me of this, old but amusing "weird al" yankovic ebay (parody of "i want it that way" by the backstreet boys)

I hate ebay and now refuse to use it, after I got stung by a CF.

But I have to say facebook and gumtree are similar but at least I don't have to deal with the fees.

I had one guy telling me, there was no way I was getting what I asked (I think it was £60) and he could take it off my hands for £20. I had great delight in telling him I already had 3 offers.

My best one though is the man who turned up to buy my single bed, the advert clearly said single bed, I included measurements and photos. He wanted a double one. I stood there and told him I would pull that out my arse.

Although I must admit, I do still pop onto ebay to see lego sets, I keep hoping at some point they are going to go down

eBay's a pile of poo. The number of stupid offers and "will you sell it to me for (a fraction of the asking price) outside of eBay?" crap is such a waste of time. I have to bite my tongue to stop me tellg them to eff off. I've never had anyone just comment though. I agree. Block the ba***d.

What is oh’d?!

If I wanted it, I’d buy it! Our nearest next, river island etc are over 30/40 mins away, then with parking etc., I just can’t be arsed. Just thank them for their input (with a rolling eyes emoji!)

People buy stuff from primark like the Disney and Harry Potter stuff and sell it on eBay for more ALL the time. I discovered this when I got given two packs of the same Harry Potter socks for Christmas one year and a friend told me to sell them on eBay. eBay is one big game of supply and demand. If demand is there you can charge what you want if it isn’t you can still charge what you want but it probably won’t sell. Ignore the rude message, if the item doesn’t end up selling you can always reduce your price a bit then. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh’d or owed?

YANBU that is really rude. I find people just try it on. I was selling a brand new item never used in a sealed box for £250, retail value £350. Someone sent me a message saying would I sell it for £15!!! I sent a polite reply saying no as it was new unused etc... (reiterating everything in the ad). They relied saying they were surprised 😯 I wouldn’t accept their offer!!!

This deserves its own thread. Amongst the treasures I have had was

a) a buyer from Austria who wanted a £0.50p refund on the postage because I had "overcharged him" (I had charged him the exact cost plus 50p for the envelope). He'd gone to the trouble of checking it on the website and demanding the difference.

b) people who've sent things back six months later saying they "no longer needed it, can I have a refund" ?

c) People who have complained about the condition of items when it matches the exact description (that they haven't read).

d) the usual scamsters who say they want to send me a cheque for £100 more than the item is worth, can I transfer the £100 to this account please ?

e) people bidding on items from countries where I have restricted bidding from, after numerous bad experiences

f) people you just KNOW are going to be dodgy wanting to trade off Ebay/Amazon

g) "Can I come and collect it?" Pt 1 "Yes, surely" "Er, actually, can you meet me half way, in Luton?" "No"

h) "Can I come and collect it?" Pt 2 "Yes, surely" Pops round - "Actually, there's no way that's worth £30 (which is what you bid), I will give you a tenner for it". "Nein danke"

i) From Germany, of all places "First you send me the goods. Then, if I like them, I will pay". Er, I fear you don't actually understand how Ebay works.

@LouiseTrees

I can’t not type this, it’s “owed” not “oh’d” in the OP. Back to the question at hand, the person was rude and I’d ignore them I don’t think they will message again.

You know damn well you could have not typed that.

OP- IMHO YANBU (wow, I’m talking in acronyms!)

Last time I checked we have a free market economy. This means (in most cases) you can offer something for sale at whatever price you choose.

It’s not a crime to make a profit by selling something for more than you bought it for.

It’s supply and demand.

If the person who messaged you didn’t think it was worth that price and could have got it cheaper elsewhere, why didn’t they just buy it elsewhere?

No-one is forcing them to bid/buy and you don’t owe anyone anything in this situation.

I’ve had some interesting experiences from buyers, like people claiming something arrived damaged and expecting a refund without returning the item then acting outraged, even when I said that I would provide a full refund, plus postage, plus the cost of sending it back to me.

You wouldn’t buy something in a shop, then go back to the shop (without the item) and demand a refund without returning it, would you?

After lengthy back and forth correspondence, in which I had to try and spell it out in words of one syllable (“send-it-back-to-me-and-will-give-you-your-cash-back”) the buyer just stopped. It was clear to
me they wanted their money back and to keep the item.

Also beware some German and Austrian eBay sellers who threaten to sue you (the buyer!) if you get shoddy goods and then manage to get a refund through eBay because they ignored you. Happened to me and it’s a common scam from what I’ve read.

Yabu. A next item which is usually made in a sweat shop isn’t something you should buy in the first place. The quality is terrible so to even expect anything over £3 is actually what I’d call a rip off. But I just wouldn’t buy from someone pricing like that. And we don’t shop with Next in our house as they are also Brexit supporters making this an even bigger issue.

I had someone message me to ask if item still available, my best price and to let me know the item I was selling at less than half price could be bought brand new at local DIY for only a£1mors than I was asking. I just sent them the link with my ones on it and suggested that they go get the bargain from the local DIY (I wanted to tell them to feck off to the DIY)

I had the opposite. Bought a baby paddling pool half price in elc, used it for one summer, listed on Ebay for 99p next spring just as it started getting hot and someone ended up buying it for more than it would have cost brand new and delivered from elc! The beauty of online auctions!

Rip off.

riceuten I see your attempted bids from blocked countries and raise you the guy who wanted me toi post a vintage, very fragile turntable

To Argentina

Interestingly, when I used to sell on there, I once stumbled across a list of bids which had been blocked according to my choices - those with too many strikes or no feedback at all, folk who left lots of neg reviews, ex-UK and so on
There were hundreds of them, which kind of made me wonder just how many scams I'd avoided even though some still got through

You can charge what ever you like for it! Something is only worth what someone will pay- if someone is willing to pay that then why not!!?
I sold my car on there last year. Had a couple of people asking how am I charging / putting a reserve on for so much. When it sold for over what I was asking one person actually messaged me back saying ‘nice one mate, you did well’ did make me laugh

It's crazy isn't it op. Would she go into a restaurant and tell them that she's not paying £8.99 for a dessert that has only cost £1.00 to make? I get these people all the time and it's always because they don't undestand postage (?) They are looking for a bit of drama to be honest - chavvy types.

YANBU OP, things are only worth what people are willing to pay. When that whole Minky sponge craze was going on people were falling over themselves buying them on ebay. i luckily had a bunch of them i had picked up months earlier when i was moving house. got them reduced in asda for 40p each so i naturally bought the lot. 6 months later Mrs Hinch made them the most sought after item of the yr 😂 i sold 3 brand new ones without packaging on ebay and i got over £50 not bad when they only cost £1.20 for the three!

My best one on a selling site was me selling a lovely pair of toddler shoes from Clarks. I had bought them 2nd hand and they were still in great condition but I only asked for £2 for the pair and collection only as I had lots of stuff to get rid of. I was asked if I could drop the price and deliver 11 miles away. When I said no sorry I got called a selfish c**t and now her child had to remain shoeless and she hoped I was happy with myself for that.

Same person also asked me to give her for free the new, still tagged baby clothes I was selling and said they were not worth any money as they were from cheap shops like H&M and Sainsburys. Needless to say I did not oblige.

I once sold a wool coat on ebay. It was in good condition and still nice enough, but it wasn't worth more than the £10 starting price I had it up for.

Two bidders went head to head for it, back and forth, until the offer reached £50. On receiving it, the winning bidder then messaged me to say it wasn't worth £50. No shit, love, but it wasn't me with the trigger happy fingers. I did consider refunding her some of the payment, even though the listing was absolutely accurate with lots of photos, but my DH stopped me and said, "That's how supply and demand works!"