What puts you off a listing?

[ILoveStripeySocks]

When looking to buy on ebay, what listings do you avoid or puts you off bidding?

For me, its bright multi-coloured text, centre-alligned text or those animated layouts. Also lines & lines of T&Cs.

I luagh at lisitngs that say stuff like "i am not responsoble fo rthings lost in teh post" or "Payment within 3 days or I will relist & unpaid strike issued". Makes them look like very silly/novice sellers!

oh i forgot my fave dislikes - W@W! and L@@K!

I read a listing for a book once where the seller somehow managed to come across as a complete weirdo.

Apart from the fact he had put the book on the floor and then taken the photo with his feet either side of it (with socks on thankfully), he was saying stuff like he would only send recorded delivery because he didn't want to be "got" like he had many times before and how he had "made that mistake before because loads of you sellers are trying to rip me off" kind of thing.

Surprisingly at the end of the auction he had no bids.

loads of you sellers are trying to rip me off"

"Loads of you buyers" even. Duh.

When an item of clothing is described as "sexy". This for example. The words Boden and sexy have no business being in the same sentence but describing a skirt fashioned from pair of curtains as sexy just baffles me.

Also, I don't have a PayPal account so it's annoying when an item is PayPal only. Why not accept postal orders? You have to go to the Post Office to send your items to buyers anyway so you wouldn't have to go out of your way to cash them.

Lots of Terms and Conditions.
Anything glowing or blinking.
No indication of the condition of a second-hand item (I see this a lot).
Bad photo.
Few previous Feedbacks/transactions.
"Payment within 3 days or else I kidnap your first-born" type threats. I sometimes forget to check for a few days after I bid.

I like centre-aligned text, though. And misspellings of the product name are great, more likely that no one else will bid on it!