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This is a joke...
Andyboy77:
A short conclusion:
Thanks a lot to everyone for the good vibes and sharing your experiencees with me on this sad subject. :coolsmiley:
I'm pretty sure we have plenty of members on here who never have had any troubles with ebay, neither as a seller nor as a buyer. So I don't know if avioding ebay is the best approach or even necessary.
I think I've just made an ebay-newbie mistake in paying as a friend via paypal and trusting someone I didn' know at all. But this decision was made due to or out of the great experiences I've had made mith members on here.
Without drifting off too much - ...I was a fresh memeber just a few days and was chating with a nice RAD-member. I told him I would like to have some parts, but have no experience on all this ebay and paypal stuff. He said something like "No problem, I can do that for you to help you out and you pay me later". I even payed more or less in advance (as friend), as soon as the prices were defined. We or rather I just had to wait for the parts to arrive and getting them shipped over to Germany. All went very well!
On another occasion I bought a lot of parts from another very nice RAD-member. In this case I was again pretty overwhelmed by the way I was treated. Tonns of massages and a great effort by the seller to make sure everything will turn out well. Payed as friend, a few little things needed to get sorted but all is well now!
My point is, I don't know any of these lads in person but it turned out not to be wrong to trust somebody who has the same passion for a hobby as I have. I don't think I'm a gullible person, but I believe in the good in man.
The fact that my ebay-experience turned out that way, is at least halfway through my own fault. Although I'm not responsible for the bad packing at all.
Yesterday I stated the case to ebay. Just got a message from them telling me to fix a deadline to the seller in order to get the situation sorted. If he wouldn't response, I should take legal steps. That's not worth it.
So, no money back for me, a bike that isn't as dear to me anymore as it used to be, but I gained experience and learned my lesson regarding ebay.
As mentioned above, this wasn't the regular ebay.de-site. It rather was a smaller site where things get handled like classified adds in a newspaper.
So, if anyone of you may find an item on ebay.de where there is good stuff on there too (...and shipping costs are usually very low from Germany to the U.K. btw) - I think there is no need to not to go for it, as along as one knows how to handle all this ebay stuff propperly. Ebay.de is the same as the the ebay-site we all know, just a different langauge.
Don't know yet how things may turn out if I ever decide to buy an item at the museum, but on here I will continue to trust in people I may deal with in the future.
So then, thanks again to everybody for your replies and all the good vibes! :bow:
Long live :radbmxsmilie: !!! :slayer: :daumenhoch:
Andy
PS: The seller told me btw he just got into the os-scene. I hope this guy never ever gets a chance to pull any other RAD-member over the barrel.
Gnarlyscoots:
As long as the lesson is learned Andy, that's all that matters.
Although most deals go smoothly, what can expected from a buyer, and what is perceived from the seller, can be 2 different things, especially condition.
I won't drift off, but what I will say to yourself and anyone else is, get pictures which are date stamped of the item, even the seller holding the item. Pay the extra 4% in fees to guarantee a refund if the item is not as described or shown in the pictures provided. This goes for any forum , FB page, or Ebay site. Each one has it's dangers, and can lead to all sorts, as most sites have no legal obligation to do anything, including Ebay, which is why they always side with the buyer (statutory rights).
I hope the seller comes clean, but I doubt that very much, as he has palmed off what he no longer wants onto someone else.
Andyboy77:
--- Quote from: Gnarlyscoots™ on August 08, 2016, 10:40 PM ---As long as the lesson is learned Andy, that's all that matters.
Although most deals go smoothly, what can expected from a buyer, and what is perceived from the seller, can be 2 different things, especially condition.
I won't drift off, but what I will say to yourself and anyone else is, get pictures which are date stamped of the item, even the seller holding the item. Pay the extra 4% in fees to guarantee a refund if the item is not as described or shown in the pictures provided. This goes for any forum , FB page, or Ebay site. Each one has it's dangers, and can lead to all sorts, as most sites have no legal obligation to do anything, including Ebay, which is why they always side with the buyer (statutory rights).
I hope the seller comes clean, but I doubt that very much, as he has palmed off what he no longer wants onto someone else.
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Many Thanks for your reply! Date stamped pictures is a great point! :daumenhoch: But isn't it possible to fake these date stamps? I guess most pictures nowadays are usually taken with smartphones. I don't have one, so I don't know anything about that.
Paying the extra 4% is my plan for the future. It doesn't bother the seller anyway.
As I said above, I feel pretty safe on here. Maybe due to my positive experiences I've had so far. I think this is also because of peoples different mindset or spirit, when it comes to sell an item to a buddy. But I think you're very right, it can't hurt to make sure everything goes well, especially if you don't know somebody or anything about his reputation.
The seller remains silent about the issue. I gave up on expecting anything further. I don't want to waste my money to get a lawer involved and more importantly, I don't want to waste my lifetime.
Tips like yours are very vital for people like me who are new to this whole ebay-thing. So thanks a lot again for sharing this! :coolsmiley: I'll keep that in mind.
ED209:
I once got a bike wrapped in a sheet and cellotape :-X
kalex:
There's good and bad people everywhere.
I nearly got sting on eBay a few years ago for around £250 on a wrongly described item that wasn't working and had damage.
This other person is on here and I believe thought he'd taken an opportunity as the tracking number I had from courier didn't work as the van driver didn't ever scan it when he collected from me. He wouldn't respond and denied he'd had it back. Until I'd obtained his signature of delivery.
I think because he isn't in the UK he thought I'd drop it but it took me a while, soon as I emailed ebay the proof money was back in my bank that afternoon.
So even on here there's dodgy people but just in the minority
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