eBay

cgcgraded · ‎12-12-2007

This guy purchases a comic from me, item # 220172021875. Says he is going to pay me via a money order. I get an e-mail asking for the serial # issued by CGC(the comic grading company). I thought it was strange to ask for this info after he had already won the auction a week ago. Well I had a funny hunch what was up, so I did a search and guess what I found. Item 260192919810. Complete with the serial # I gave him.
The funny thing about this is that he promises to have this book in his buyers hand by christmas, yet the book is still in my basement and I haven't received his payment yet.
I'd hate to be his customer.... Oops, I guess he's still mine!:_|
Should be interesting!

Andrew

cgcgraded · ‎12-12-2007

This is the last 2 replies I have got from him....

#1

Hi Buckingham303,

Thank you for informing me about this situation. I let my little brother use my account to buy his comics, but did not know he was going to sell items on here also, until I checked my old e-mail and found out about this matter. Now I have $30+ in Ebay fees and $200+ unpaid items. I will definitely remove that item from Ebay and he will be in charge of all these bills, which he incurred.

#2

Hi Buckingham303,

As of right now, I do not know what arrangements he has made in paying for the items he bought from you. I will ask him and find out what he did in this matter. I checked the auction and he has marked it payment sent. He does not have my Paypal account password, so he most likely sent a money order. If he tries to bid on anymore items from your auction, please cancel those bids. As of right now he's been banned and I have already change my Ebay password. Please let me know if you do receive the payment, since he has these unpaid bills all of his items that he did pay for are mines and he will not get them back until everything has been taken care of.

LOL. You got to love eBay!

Andrew

comics-rock · ‎12-12-2007

figures.....andrew, get this. i spent the best part of 7 hours early this morning taking items out of the store and putting them on fixed price taking full advantage of the rare 5c listing. my account was suspended today for "suspicious activity". after three hours of jumping through ebay hoops i received my account back,,,,,with, yep you guest it, absolutly no listing whatsoever. they said they coudln't replace them because they believed the account had been hijacked...it had been, by ebay.
so i just spent the best part of six hours of the only day i have off for some time to come relisting. not even an apology. a "yeah, it was our fault but what you gonna do", would have made me feel better about the entire thing, but not even that!

paul

cgcgraded · ‎12-12-2007

WOW Paul That sucks. Good luck with your patience.

Andrew

westernstargifts · ‎12-13-2007

There must be a lot of weird buyers on eBay this week. I just received a message from a buyer who won one auction and has another one ending Dec. 13 at 7:13 p.m. She informed me she is sending payment tomorrow for both and has already determined the cost although she has yet to win the second auction. I quickly sent a reply telling her to wait until the auction had ended.....?:|

Another one earlier bought a few things and thought that I should sell her another ring at the starting bid price and then invoice her through her "personal" email. I let her know politely through My Messages that there were more available in my store.

Funny thing is, they are both in Ontario with one not very far away....maybe it is just our weird fellow Canadians....lol...

Paul, there were a couple of other sellers awhile back that had their listings pulled. After bugging eBay a lot, they managed to get many of them reinstated. Cello was one of them. I would fight for it unless you already have them all relisted.

Judy

westernstargifts · ‎12-13-2007

I received this message from a buyer last week....

I would really love to buy this arthritis eagle ring, but unfortunately I don't get paid until Monday. If you would be willing to hold that item for me I can pay on Monday. Just let me know. Thanks so much. It would make an awesome x-mas gift for my father. xxxxx

She had bid on the auction which didn't end until the Thursday after the Monday on which she would get paid....duh... She has terrible feedback (1 of 2 sellers left her a negative for 2 items) so I canceled her bid and blocked her. Now she is bugging me to sell her a ring outright, not through eBay I suppose. I had sent her a nicely worded message telling her that she should read some of the tutorials on how eBay works but I have my doubts that she ever will. Weird people...