EBAY, nasty sellers to avoid.

voytek · Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 818

I know German very little but it looks like spoof, phishing. Watch out. Find him and then ask him using ebay messaging system to write you again but in English. You will get proper information and confirmation that this is a true message from him. Go to the bidding history and check all sellers for number of feedback, the person who wrote you has 23 as a score, he/she is buying very seldom
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loksi67 · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 29

he is located in austria. I also. I can´t say to him: please write me in english Crying or Very sad

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voytek · Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 818

The problem is that if you write to somebody using ebay messaging system and you type your email adress it shows like plain text not as a link to certain email address. This is strange that he twice direct you to email address. "If you want (..), klick it/here please" - this is common practice to lure people
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rawhead · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 837 Location: Boston, MA

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I deleted this post because on the very last day before my Paypal claim would've reached it's final date without a response from the seller, the item arrived. It took 1 whole month to arrive because the seller sent it using regular airmail. While I'm still pissed that he sent it airmail when he said he sent it DHL, and that he never responded to my multiple emails, and didn't even respond to the Paypal claim, he was not a thief as I had insinuated in the post; thus deleted.
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kds315* · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 2886 Location: Weinheim/Germany

Bought a Fuji S5 DSLR, returned it since it was significantly worse than described.

Now many months later I still don't have my fund (ca EUR350) back.

The case goes to my UK laywer now.

Seller filterfantastic08 ---> AVOID!!
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Attila · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 27555 Location: Budapest,Hungary

These "fantastic" guys are not so fantastic I had also big trouble with "kaptainfantastic" Ebay seller from Australia.
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Farside · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 3967 Location: Ireland

It screams "SCAM!"
Not the first time a scammer has contacted a runner-up with a tempting offer. The bidder anonymity now should prevent this, but perhaps it failed.
I'd only take up a second-chance offer if the seller contacted me directly from his ebay account and only if the item was close enough to collect in person, if it was worth anything above a few quid.
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spiralcity · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 955 Location: Chicago, U.S.A

xiyizii is selling items at bloated prices. This guy dosent know how to do a simple Google search to check accurate prices on new items.

I warned him he would end up on our boards.

Avoid this guy like the plague!

Heres a bit of what transpired between us:

Im looking for a digital storage unit to take with me on day trips. I was looking at the Epson-P3000, it is priced brand new at 399.99, and the P-4000 is just way out of my price range.

I thought I would give ebay a go, so I searched for the old model, the Epson-P2000.

I found a few good reasonable prices. Most selling for about 150.00 USD.
Then I came across this IDIOT!

Click here to see on Ebay

I dropped him a note asking why he was selling the old version for so much. His exact reply:

Dear spiralcity1,

I saw people are selling for $499.99. Thanks.

- xiyizii

I wrote him back and told him to check any local dealer for the NEWER Epson P-3000 prices.

This will give you an idea of the going rate on the NEWER and improved unit.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=epson+P-3000&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7ADBF_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=16708787270090082718&ei=9P1YSvr_AY_mlAfR_fSTBg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=4#ps-sellers

WHAT A JOKE !!!!

I also noticed he lowered his price by about 50.00 USD after I dropped him the note. STILL WAY TOO MUCH!

Epson also has a NEW P-4000 unit, I believe they go up to the P-7000. But those units are a bit high in price.

The P-2000 can be found for 100.00 to 150.0 USD on the bay. This guy has lost his mind.
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shadows · Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 120 Location: Canada

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Esox lucius · Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 843 Location: Finland

eBay is not what it used to be. I've been very active on eBay in the past 9 months, and here are a few things that bug me:

FROM A SELLER'S POINT OF VIEW
No idea to sell anything to anyone, unless you receive payment with PayPal and can ship it with tracking that can trace package all the way. Any different than this and buyer can file a false PayPal claim of item not received, keep item and money. Seller protection sucks, all this makes shipping cost high, eBay and PayPal costs high, buying price too high and sellers net income too low = not worth selling on eBay.

I ship item within 1 hour from receiving PayPal payment. Postal service strike/holidays/inefficiency or customs inspection delays item delivery, what happens? Buyer reviews me as very slow delivery, or worse: files an item not received claim, locking my PayPal account (it takes weeks to re-verify all PayPal seller account details like proof of address etc.)

eBay's automated shipping calculator sucks more than a black hole in space. I am required to give an exact shipping price, despite it being impossible to list all shipping options available to 174 countries.

Localized (German, UK, Italian etc.) sites especially suck with shipping calculations. eBay just does not get it that Scandinavian/other sellers cannot use German or UK postal service to ship items!

PayPal conversion fees are legalized theft. Why is there no EU eBay site, where I can sell in EURos and use English, a quite global language?

Buyers always want lowest price but fastest delivery = not possible. If I ship priority signed buyer gets item fast but reviews me as expensive shipping costs. If I ship economy unsigned buyer reviews me as slow delivery!

I can't automatically block 0-feedback buyers, I have to cancel their bids manually which is impossible in the last minutes/seconds of an auction. In my experience of 200 transactions, 0-feedback buyers are the worst. Almost none ever read the description what they're bidding on and cancel purchase (but only after I've sent them 5 payment requests). The rest never pays and none of the other bidders ever respond to 2nd chance offers as they're afraid of a scam or have already bought another similar/same item.

FROM A BUYER'S POINT OF VIEW
Since they changed the feedback system, you can't really trust any seller anymore. 100% feedback means nothing today. If a buyer/seller leaves a bad review then the other retaliates = no-one leaves bad feedback!

Especially low-priced items are percentually highly over-priced due to low seller-protection (see seller's point of view --> what raises total price).

I can maintain a list of blocked bidders but I can't keep an ignore-list of notoriously ill-famed sellers. OK, I can exclude seller names in the advanced search, but why can't my settings automatically ignore everything they list?

Worst of all: eBay is so keen on getting commission fees that they systematically ignore sellers who use multiple accounts to bid on their own items = boost their own profit. The anonymous auctions make this even more easy to get away with, as other eBay users can't spot this and report sellers to eBay.

eBay sucks nowadays, it is not the place for bargains that it once was when I joined, a loong time ago.