eblag question

[beast5680]

those of you who sell stuff on the auction site, how long do you wait for someone to acknowledge they have won your item and pay for it before you have to get narked and report them?
been a week now and have been told by the bloke he,ll pay when he collects and he asked for my number but since then nothing :?

[Paul]

Drop him a gently reminder that the item you have sold is still awaiting collection, Usually works  

[beast5680]

i,ve just done that tonight so i,ll give it to the end of the week i think then send round the lads with the baseball bats :lol:

[Paul]

Baseball bats don't work  :lol:  Reminders usually do the trick.

[Yoshi]

If he doesnt respond start a non paying bidder dispute against him, that usually gets peoples attention lol

[burgerman]

If he doesnt respond start a non paying bidder dispute against him, that usually gets peoples attention lol

  we recieved a very expensive decanter from a seller, which arrive very late and broken, we were not getting any joy from him so opened a dispute, he waited unti the very last hour ( literally) to respond to pay pal, eventually paypal agreed if we returned the item  to the seller they would pay up, so wifey sent it dhl next day and trackable, matey (was not in) and never collected the parcel, so there fore paypal have now closed the case as we didnot return the item,Personally the whole deal stinks, i shall never be using there services again, The short of it is if you r a seller and  keep quiet you walk away with my money

[jjsaul]

this is one of the reasons i try to stick to cash on collection with items (ok i know its not always possible) but it does mean that if the item does not meet the description, you haven't sent a load of money up front...

[tomkbucks]

we had this problem - bought a hoover on ebay - £50 with £15 postage, sold as ' refurbished ' got a dirty crap one that did not work ... was told to get a report from local shop to prove item was damaged... before it could go forward - result .... seller walked away with our money as no local shop would just ' take a look and give a quote ' without charging min of £25 ! rip of... now dont buy anything unless its new and boxed and seller has a LOT Of feedback..

[Bettyblue22]

Always remember that under the consumer credit act section 75 or 65 you can initiate a chargeback against paypal if you paid with your credit card up to 90 days after the payment.  This one only applies to credit cards though.

For debit cards there is only protection with Visa.  They cover their debit cards the same as their credit cards so although your not covered by the CCA, Visa International apply the same rules as the above mentioned CCA section internally so will go through the chargeback process.

[Bettyblue22]

Forgot to add, the above is useful as paypal only allow 45 days from the date of payment in order for you to complain.