The Ebay Advice Column

[earlgreytoast]

Well I ain’t payin’no fifty cents for no coke

Ha ha, well you ain’t gettin’ no coke

[mfaith]

Right? I mean, I wonder if these people do the same thing in local shops. lol. Go up to a sales person at Best Buy and say "excuse me sir, you have this TV priced at $2,000. I only want to give you a thousand for it. That's cool, right?"

[earlgreytoast]

Haven’t been in a Best Buy in years but I don’t think they put “or best offer” on their price signage.

[ctjeepguy]

You'd first have to find one

[mfaith]

Haven’t been in a Best Buy in years but I don’t think they put “or best offer” on their price signage.

Did his listing have best offer turned on? The way i read it, he had buy it now for 500, and the guy messaged him with the lowball.

[GoBluePanic]

Always amazes me when potential buyers antagonise me over repeated messages and expect me to give them good deals as well.

I had some clown send me a lowball offer on an item recently with a note saying that the item wasn't even selling for cost. I responded that he should have no problem finding one at the price he wanted then. If they are everywhere why hit up someone that's priced higher? Item sold for full price later that same day.

[LeeKaye]

Always amazes me when potential buyers antagonise me over repeated messages and expect me to give them good deals as well.

I had some clown send me a lowball offer on an item recently with a note saying that the item wasn't even selling for cost. I responded that he should have no problem finding one at the price he wanted then. If they are everywhere why hit up someone that's priced higher? Item sold for full price later that same day.

Yep. Always a good thing. I had listed something at 500 quid. It was a rare item, easily worth it. Someone offered 250. Then 100, then 99 pence.

It sold at 500 about 48 hours later.

[GoBluePanic]

What's the best course of action when someone doesn't pay on an accepted best offer?

If they are this flaky I probably don't want to risk sending them something that will inevitably cost me in the end.

Does canceling a transaction for "item not available anymore" count against me?

[guryter]

Pretty sure after 3 days of non-payment ebay will auto open a non paying bidder claim. Then after another few days it'll close and you'll get fvf back, you can then relist.

Or something close to that.

[Kramerica]

I have it set so that ebay automatically opens an unpaid item case after 48 hours of non-payment. After 5 business days you can close it and get credited your final value fee.

[cotis]

I have it set so that ebay automatically opens an unpaid item case after 48 hours of non-payment. After 5 business days you can close it and get credited your final value fee.

[SpaceYourAntelope]

Right? I mean, I wonder if these people do the same thing in local shops. lol. Go up to a sales person at Best Buy and say "excuse me sir, you have this TV priced at $2,000. I only want to give you a thousand for it. That's cool, right?"

Did you really just try to compare eBay to Best Buy? In the right environment, haggling is perfectly acceptable, and part of our culture (at least where I was raised...) Replace Best Buy with a guy selling a TV on craigslist for a more accurate comparison, and you're damn right im gonna offer him 50% of his highly inflated asking price to start the negotiation process. If you're the kind of guy that pays sticker price on a used car lot than you've got a lot to learn bud

[mlinderer]

Could use some advice on a recent vinyl record sale through ebay. Buyer is being a pain in the ass.

Buyer offered $35 for a 8" single and I accepted. I shipped and then recently received a note saying it arrived damaged due to my packing method. It was an 8" record so there wasn't necessarily an off the shelf record mailer for this so I had to improvise. Buyer said some of the painters tape I had used to hold the mylar sleeve down inside the 12" mailer became stuck to the paper sleeve. He sounded frustrated, but wanted to works something out to avoid leaving me negative feedback. I suggested he pick one of three options... (a) return record for full refund, (b) return record and I'll send him a replacement since I had a second one, (c) partial refund based on the how bad the damage actually was. He chose option (c) and he said he thought $10 would be appropriate for the damage he was expecting once he pulled the rest of the tape off. He then proceeded to remove the rest of the tape that was there and then said "it wasn't really that bad, just refund what I thought was appropriate". Seeing the pictures below, I said it did not appear to be as bad as he was making it out to be so I refunded him $5. He then responds with "that's all you're wiling to refund? it went from a NM to VG". I've yet to respond, but really want to tell him to piss off because even from before placing an offer on the item he was trying to build a case for offering less than what I wanted to sell for. I don't want to risk the negative feedback over a stupid sale like this, but I feel I need to hold my ground out of principle because I feel like this is a frivolous request to begin with. It's not something I would have raised a stink about myself if I would have received the item the way it was.

Here are his actual photos of the damage

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[Kramerica]

I would tell the buyer that's what you are comfortable refunding and if that isn't satisfactory, he can choose one of the other two options provided (return or exchange).

[tourist504]

I would tell the buyer that's what you are comfortable refunding and if that isn't satisfactory, he can choose one of the other two options provided (return or exchange).

Vinyl collectors can be real dipshits. And the worst part is most of them are relatively new to the hobby so they have unreasonable expectations and a newfound sense of entitlement.