Dipshit eBay sellers... Share your story!

We've had threads like this before, and eBay discussions but this is a different type.

I bought a volt metre on eBay, it was just a $6 one to get me started. After I paid for the item 20 minutes has passed, the item was marked as shipped. Seems like the seller got Sonic to go to the post office... 3 days have passed or maybe it was 2 days, I get a message saying the item couldn't be sent as it had a 9V battery inside - the listing states the volt metre doesn't include a battery and this is a seller from China who ships to Australia hell they had AU in their username.

I was puzzled why the item was marked as shipped if they sent me a message saying the item couldn't be shipped with the battery, and better yet you can removed 9V batteries... You can buy them from a Supermarket. Honestly.

The seller did the right thing by refunding me straight away, even though I'd be happy if they just posted another one. I believe they sold out or didn't have any in stock to begin with, as the listing was removed when they sent me the message.

I've never experienced this before, and still my brain hurts wondering what the hell happened on their end.

So share your odd experiences with dipshit sellers.

 

Your seller probably was just a rookie and not a dipshit because experienced sellers would never try to send an item with batteries included.
But it is normal that the seller marks your parcel as shipped once it leaves his hands. That doesn't actually mean that it's already in the hands of the chinese post because to save on postage often a third party is involved that collects parcels from different sellers to get volume rates on shipping.

I have found chinese sellers to be one of the kindest sellers of all. Never had any problems that couldn't be resolved with a friendly email.

 

I mark items I have packed as shipped. Not when its actually shipped - similar to above.

 

Doubt this person/seller was a rookie. They've sold many items before, and better yet the item listed without a battery. Reasons why I think the seller made a dipshit choice or just had no idea what they were doing. Although they did everything right by me, I'm fine and not pissed or anything. To me it just doesn't make much sense. I've had many good experiences from Chinese sellers, I have nothing against them at all. The message was very polite too, and in proper understandable english.

 

A seller I was in the middle of a transaction with started racking up the negative feedback when he stopped responding to buyers and was late shipping. I hesitated to leave feedback until the last second and chose to attempt to contact him instead. I never heard back but, sure enough, I finally received my Logitech keyboard gamepad for Playstation 2 many weeks (months?) later. He got plenty of premature negatives from others who did ultimately receive their items so, instead of a negative, I left a neutral stating "Received item in excellent condition (late). No contact or feedback from seller." When he started responding to everyone's negative feedback, I got caught up in his retaliatory feedback too. He left me a negative saying something like "I wouldn't deal with this guy." My follow-up on his own feedback page was: "Left retaliatory negative w/NO details. No contact & HE retaliates for neutral?!" This was back in 2003.

Later I ordered the N64 game "WCW vs. NWO: Revenge" from an eBay seller because it was a CIC 6102 game with SRAM which I intended to gut and use as an N64 boot cartridge with swapable ROMs. The seller started getting negative feedback left and right from impatient buyers after he stopped responding for a few days, but I decided to wait and see what happens, especially after my other experience. He did eventually start responding and resumed shipping products but stopped listing anything new and was shutting down his eBay operations. When I finally got mine, it was "WCW vs. NWO: World Tour" and he stopped responding. GAH! I had absolutely NO use for that game.

 

Oh I have a good one. This is the story of me trying to buy a SNES/N64/GameCube S Video cable.

First I bought one from a seller who had a listing that read "Gold Plated, U.S. seller, not cheep product." So I went ahead and bought it and received it several days later. The S Video portion of the cable was broken. I then proceeded to contact the seller and another ebay member who bought the same cable I did from the same seller. The seller got back to me hours later and told me it was a defective unit (you think?) and that he would fully refund me. Great, that perfect... except I still have no S Video, It is just a composite with S Video on it. A few days later, the other ebay member replied to me saying that his was also broken and not functioning properly. Quality U.S. products indeed.

Then I tried again with a different seller. A seller who was selling a used product or something they know worked for them. The seller was new to ebay and had an auction/but it now cable for sale. It was supposed to be S-Video for PSX/PS2/PS3/Xbox/SNES/N64/NGC. Perfect. I bid for it, get it for about $4.50. So a few days later I get the cable and open it up to see that the seller listed the item incorrectly. The PlayStation and Xbox cables were fine, but there was no SNES/N64/NGC cable. Instead, there was a cable meant to be plugged into the Wii. In fact, the connector says "TO WIItm" on it. Contact seller, get full refund + cable. Well at least this free cable has working S Video... for the wrong console.

So again I try. Third times the charm, hopefully. This time I do as much research as possible learning that many S-Video cables are fake if they have a component on them. So I search ebay and find a S Video cable by a third party company called INNOVATION. I looked up about the company and found out that they made quality, mostly innovative, accessories for consoles from NES to GBA and NGC. Some other items they sell is the GB solar charger, which allowed you to use the sun to power your GB original. They also sell a Wide Boy 64 alternative for about $30 which can play GB and GBC games. So I bought the cable. They took there time shipping it but about 2-3 days later, it was shipped out. When it arrived at my house, the item scared me. The item was shipped in its original box that had the shipping info tapped onto it. Only one problem, the box read PSX/PS2 RF cable. Luckily, when I opened the box I found a SNES/N64/NGC S Video cable. And It worked. FINALLY. So much effort to play SM64 in 420i.

So remember kids, Innovation is the best place to buy 3rd party accessories because everywhere else people will rip you off and give you full refunds to keep quiet.

 

I once bought a router from a seller and he shipped out just the original box and the instruction manual. No router in the box.

 

I bought pokemon black (Import on day 1.) An entire month passes and I received a message something like this:

"Hey uh.. sorry but uhh.. this game is in the japanese version... so uhh.. do you stil l want it?"

I flipped some big shit at the ass hat saying it better be shipped with in the next week or I would report him for fraud and scam. mind you this was before the game was released in the US. got the game and it came in a shitty ass wet shoe box like cardboard box with no padding. The game's case was snapped in half some how. returned for full refund.

 

I've been using eBay since 2002 or something. Every seller has been a dipshit. Nothing is simple.

Being a seller is a nightmare too, I get so nervous using PayPal these days that I always use courier and insure the hell out of everything. I've even got to the point that I sell most goods as spares and repairs these days even if they're working just fine in order to combat scammers who will put in a reverse payment just for the sake of it.

Worst case I ever had was when I sold a Halo Xbox some years ago, it was very well packaged but when it arrived they claimed it had been smashed up and was suffering RROD. They pushed pretty hard to have a claim on the insurance done, it was only when I asked for photos of the Xbox did they back down, that said it took two weeks to get my hands on the money and I was in desperate need of it at the time.

 

Speak for yourselves.

As a buyer I've had no issues, other than two items from the same seller bought at the same time showing up seperate, it was because they came from two different warehouses in different parts of the country. Cost them more on P&P in the end and I wasn't too fussed cos the items were basically mint.

As a seller I've had one issue where I used ebay's image searcher thing and didn't realise the image was for a gold edition that came with the base pack and the expansion, I was selling the expansion. It showed up, buyer sent me a nice e-mail saying it wasn't what they had ordered and I let them keep the item and issued a full refund. I fucked up, realized I had and fixed it.

Before 2012 I had always used my mums account for eBay with her permission and I paid her back for what I bought and the only time we had difficulty was a bellend seller who didn't want to ship an item because it didnt sell for what he paid for it. Paypal promptly gave him a good seeing to and he ended up sending the item out.

 

Ebay, for the most part, has been okay for me, ignoring the crazy fees. But then someone comes along and really, really messes things up, and you feel like you have to battle the world to get anything done. Thats where Ebay starts to become quite blah to me.

 

I had bought a copy of Gun Survivor 4: BIOHAZARD - Hero's Never Die, in box, mint condition, with the Guncon2 and all manuals. The seller told me it was shipped. A week went by and I had got nothing. I e-mailed the seller asked what was up. He said his crazy wife had taken the items while he was packing them up and smashed them on the floor. OK... Well why did you wait a week for saying anything? He didn't respond at all. I asked for a refund and he didn't respond. So I then filed a PayPal claim on him and he answered back angrily "Have patience, I told you I was going to refund you". My response was "You never replied to either of my other messages". He didn't respond after that and I got my money shortly after.

I feel he sold it for too low and wanted to back out of the sale and re-list it. I had gotten the whole bundle for $40, which is 1/3 of the normal going rate for this game in this condition. He was probably pissed and didn't want to let it got for such a low price.

 

Sellers are bad a lot of times, but dear god as a seller it is far worse. I had 3 fake/ buyers who aren't planning to pay in a row, and then came my favorite buyer of all time. This guy buys a ylod mgs ps3 of mine for 30 bucks, and takes 3 days to pay, meaning he payed on xmas eve. I left a message to all buyers that I was out of town until the 28th, and of course I get a message the 27th bugging the hell out of me asking did I ship. I told the guy I'll ship it when I get back in the next day, which I do. He of course asks me the next day did I ship and I said I shipped it but parcel doesnt have tracking, and then he asks me again when will I be shipping it.

I tell him wait 5-8 damn days and shut up(slightly more nicely). Waits 4 days, leaves negative feedback saying never recieved item and then message me 3 days later saying the ps3 came with a crack. I tell him I can refund him if he supplied a picture and to change my feedback. It reeked of a scam, but he changed my feedback but he never sent or asked for a refund.

 

I dont know if the seller was a Dipshit or I dont know how Ebay works maybe some members here can shed some light and there opinion on the matter.

Last year I won a auction for two dreamcasts (Broken not reading discs) for $1.50 ,and shipping was $35, every went fine seller marked it as shipped a few days later, 3 weeks pass and I get a PayPal Refund, strange, but I decided to leave it to the evening to check , about two hours later I get a request from the seller to cancel the auction, due to a "other reason" and I can decide to "Agree" or "Decline and leave a reason", so after some investigating he stated on the paypal "Item shipped back to me due to broken box"

This I Found highly strange as I have had boxes brake in transit, due to poor packing before, both locally (in South Africa) and in the US, normally the post office will just wrap it closed with thick tape (Yellow for South Africa, Blue USPS tape in the US) and still send me the parcel with a note attached, broken in transit, I have never had one before sent back to the seller.

So I clicked "Decline" and stated "Please provide proof that the item was shipped, as in a receipt, as well as a photo of the damaged box or proof thereof"

Not even 5 mins later the seller responded and demanded to know why I declined, I repeated what I said above , to which he replied something along the lines of "I gave you a refund what more do you want? Declining wont change anything it just makes my life more difficult to get my money back" completely ignoring that I am asking for proof of what happened, none the less I told him I think he was simply trying to get out of the auction, and I need proof to say otherwise.

So my problem is this, if it had been damaged in the mail I would have liked to have gotten a message first, I wouldn't have minded paying the seller a bit more to re-ship it via fedex or ups, but he gave me no alternative, nor could he give me any proof that what he said happened actually did, no photos or receipts.

I waited a day and left negative feedback, as I feel that nether him packing the items poorly or not wanting to honor a auction is my fault,nor is my fault that he cant provide proof of either,I wrote "Seller doesn't want to honor auction, and cant provide proof to cancel the auction" and once again his response to that feedback was "I gave seller a full refund, what more could he want,dont sell to the seller",wish I could respond to that with something like "My item I won on the auction maybe"

So as a seller was I in the wrong?

PS My ebay terminology might be incorrect.

 

FTFY and no as a buyer you were not in the wrong you fulfilled your end of the deal and paid for the item if he decides not to honor the auction he deserves negative feedback.

 

I had a weird one last week. I got a Gravis Analog Pro Joystick for one of my Retro PCs. Heck, I wanted to play Wing Commander . It was listed as an excellent condition joystick, with some damage on the pads at the bottom. Judging from the photo, it looked legit and the guy had no negative feedback.

I got the package really quickly, he shipped it on Monday and I got it on Friday. Mind you, I live in Greece and the seller lives in the UK so, pretty speedy actually. I paid 10 pounds for the joystick and another 6 for postage. When I opened the package, I found a dirty, smudgy joystick. My older brother was around when I opened it and he was like " That guy must be nasty as hell ". I cleaned it up slightly with some cotton buds and toothpicks before I used it. The throttle was especially dirty, it gave you that nasty feeling when you turned it. Ugh...

It was working perfectly fine, although it did feel a little bit clunky as well, as if someone had strained it. I sent the seller a message as politely as I could, asking a partial refund.
I knew I could clean the joystick and it would be perfect, but I had paid for an excellent condition joystick, not a shit stained one xD.

He didn't want to hear it. He was hostile right from the start, telling me that if the joystick was working it was excellent. He told me I could ship it back to him for a full refund, but I would have to pay for the postage. Obviously I didn't want to do that, why would I want to pay extra and then have no joystick? In my second message I insisted on getting a partial refund, I told him I thought that was the most reasonable solution for both of us. Win-Win. I also told him that if he didn't respond I would have to open a case on E-bay or send him negative feedback, although I saw no reason in doing so.

In his next reply he told me that I couldn't threaten him with a negative feedback and that it was against the rules to do so. He told me he would follow ebay procedure or some shit. I opened a case and again he insisted on a full refund with me covering the postage costs. Well, after 5-6 replies I was fed up. Fuck him, when I pay for an excellent condition joystick not some dirty shit. I closed the case and gave him a negative feedback after all that.

A couple of years ago, I found a good deal on Unreal 1 + Unreal Tournament boxed releases. I think it was something like 13 pounds for both and I snagged it. The seller didn't use a normal box, they used some kind of plastic, black bag. The whole thing was basically was shaking all along the trip. Unreal 1 was in an awful condition when I opened the bag.
Also, around that time I bought the original X-Com Enemy Unknown. Old, boxed version. The seller wanted something like 9 or 10 pounds to ship it from the UK. I told him it couldn't possibly be that many and he was like, take or leave it and that was after I had won the item. Again, he too packed it up like shit and I got a fucked up box, I had to fix it myself as much as I could.

 

The seller I dealt with just opened up a case against me. He refunded me, why open a case to cancel it? Oo

 

I've managed to get away with not finding any horrible buyers or sellers lately.

Recently I sold a SNES on eBay and got more than I was asking for it here by a nice chunk. Buyer sends me a message day after he gets it saying he is "grossly disappointed" and that it doesn't work. He tells me he played an unnamed game for 15 minutes where it froze and upon cycling the power it came to a black screen. I instructed him to clean the cart but I don't know if he did. I offered a refund or an exchange and he'd prefer an exchange as it was a precious item when he was a kid (like it was for many of us).

He already left me positive feedback and I haven't even gotten the SNES back yet to see what the issue is.

 

What happened?

I had another seller once who sold me a GBA SP with the NES shell. A few days pass and I get the Onyx SP. I asked seller why I didn't get the NES one and he said he accidentally broke it and sent another one. I asked if I could get a partial refund. He declined and said the unit was in working order. I replied back stating I paid for the NES color variant and I got a black one, that I paid nearly double of what the NES one goes for. He replied back saying that it was mint and in working order so he didn't understand why I wanted a refund.. I asked if I would return it and after a few more messages he agreed.

So I decide to return it to him. Got his address off the box and mailed it back. A few days later the package came back with a notice "Return to sender. Address does not exist" written on it. LOL, WUT? I messaged him about this and got no response. I messaged him a day later and got no response. Finally after three tries I opened a claim and he magically came back asking why I didn't message him first. I told him I messaged him four times. He said he didn't get any of the messages...

Well after a few messages of us talking back and forth, he agreed to do a partial refund..

I still think to this day he was trying to scam me somewhat. Who knows, as after that he was no longer a registered ebay member..