I bought some children's books, when they arrived they where those free ones from nestle boxes, am I entitled to leave neutral feedback?

[OverMyDeadBody]

As the seller failed to mention they where the smaller freebies from nestle packets If I'd known I wouldn't have bought them as the writing is too small for DS to read. I'm a bit annoyed actually but I guess I should have known.

Ok to leave neutral feedback and comment on this ommision?

I think you should email the seller first and see what they have to say.

And even then, I'm not too sure. I want to be all righteous and angry on your behalf, but I presume that the seller didn't at any point imply that they were something else? just that you misunderstood what was being sold, am I right?

If what you bought was what was advertised then you probably cant do much about it. I see things on ebay all the time that would have been free originally (eg the bags and flip-flops that you often get with womens magazines).

If they were the books offered and she made no claims regarding the publisher, them being a specific issue or print size then you pretty much got what you paid for didnt you.

If you only wanted them if the print was a certain size then you should have asked her before bidding..surely she had a picture on the listing?

Personally I dont think she did anything wrong.

oh I don't know squonk, I though they where just the normal books . There was no mention that they where small freebies with 'not for resale' printed all over the back. I'm not angry, just a bit annoyed as I thought I'd be getting the normal published books to add to DS's collection, and now I'll actually have to read them to DS

oh I know, you lot are all right, it just didn't even occure to me that they wouldn't be the normal books. The picture looks exactly the same of course, you can't tell the size of the book from the image.

If I was selling them, I'd mention that they where the smaller nestle editions.

I'd be annoyed too - but then when I sell things I am always super honest and would have mentioned something like that.

You could contact her direct first and comment on it - see what she has to say.

Sadly, probably just buyer beware though. But yes, I would feel I'd been cheated a bit too.

tell you what, you leave them positive feedback, as you did actually get what they said they were selling, and we'll just bitch about them and whinge about how horrible they are on here.

will that do?

I'll start:

twats!

lol ok squonk, sounds like a deal!

I didn't pay much for them to be fair, and DS will still enjoy them, but, they just won't look the same on his bookshelf.

"oh I don't know squonk, I though they where just the normal books . There was no mention that they where small freebies with 'not for resale' printed all over the back"

But surely if she didnt want them she was just being environmentally friendly and selling them to someone she thought did want them...what is wrong with that?

If she had taken them to a charity shop they would have just binned them...how much of waste would that have been!

nothing wrong with her selling them wombat, but she should have mentioned it in her description.

I wouldn't want them ending up in a landfill either.

But is she a professional seller or just someone getting rid of what they dont want themselves?

If she is a professional book seller then yes she should have mentioned it but if she just thought "ohh someone might use these and I dont want them" then it probably wouldnt occur to her you would be upset.

We run a business so I have no illusions about the miniscule nit picking things people can get upset about so make sure people know EXACTLY what we are supplying but it HAS been a learning curve over a number of years.

well she has an ebay shop so I'd hazard a guess that she is at least semi-pro and the ommission was a deliberate decision on her part.

In that case rather than having a knee jerk reaction I would just e-mail her and say you bought the books for your young child...they were the smaller issues from a cereal pack and is there any chance of a refund (you will of course have to pay return postage because you didnt ASK her what issue they were!)

nah it's not such a big deal to me that I'd want a refund or anything, I'm just annoyed and disappointed, but I'll get over it

One of the joys of ebay some you win some you dont. Who knows you may enjoy reading them!

However - if they say on them "Not for resale" - then should she actually be selling them via an ebay shop? Just curious as to the legalities of it...we have a few books here say this as SIl works for a book publisher (although they do say they can be sold for charity - so charity shops okay I believe) - but I would assume otherwise they can't be sold on.

it's like seeing an item listed as an unwanted or unused gift... half of me thinks - ingenious! the other half thinks it is ungrateful .

I thought about that as well hula, but unsure of the legalities of it. I guess as osmeone else said, it is a case of buyer beware.

"they just won't look the same on his bookshelf."

heh, this reminds me a great and amusing thread I read recently on a booksellers' board.
-- A man picks up a signed first edition Terry Pratchett book and asks the seller if he has another one that the author hasn't scribbled in...-
- buyer sends angry message to seller saying he is rather upset at having bid and paid £10 for this book and it quite clearly states the price on the back as being £1.50....... er yes, in 1974 sir! --

anyway... freebies and 'not for resale' items are often 'collectable' and can bring in big money