@rose-dee wrote:
Yes, eBay with its fingers in everybody's business again. This high-handed "management without consent" is particularly concerning:
"Sellers have no responsibility for claims, she was told, but they are unable to remove the offer from their listings."
I agree with 'treasurehunter' that this is yet another signal that eBay is looking for cash wherever it can be found. Most such retail warranties have so many conditions and exclusions that the actual coverage is laughable. Besides, most retail goods come with a manufacturer's warranty that is free, if slightly insufficient.
People will buy an item thinking they can make a claim no matter what, and eBay will be making additional money off our customers.
This is one instance where I'm glad I'm not selling new commercially produced goods.
The coverages are hilarious.
"Re-stringing" your pearl necklace in the event it breaks? Oh man, that's too funny. It reminds me of when, as a young man, I got a job at Majestic Electronics (dunno how many of you will remember Majestic but they were the first "Superstores" in Canada) as a salesman and the company started pushing these extended warranties telling us to tell customers that it covered bringing your vcr in for cleaning. Of course it didn't and they even went so far as to take peoples' vcrs that came in looking for a cleaning and set them on a shelf in the back with a dated ticket on them and when 14 days had gone by the customer was called and told his vcr was ready for pick-up after being cleaned and checked out.
Majestic made literally millions off of those junk warranties before the govt caught up with them.
Hmmmm maybe that deferred tax debt is finally catching up with Ebay!
thD
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