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rules for the forum concerning bad ebay sellers
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thats sickening Bunsen. You paid through paypal and still no refund..........I thought paypal has all the protection in place for such events. Tell us more!!
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2 years ago i bought a 512K on ebay from a guy in the states.......paid through paypal......when it arrived i opened the box and it was in bits!!......caseing was shattered. Looks like it was opened and the mac was dropped on a hard surface. The box was perfect no damage of any kind.
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went through all the usual....but in the end i got the full refund off paypal....to both the seller and myself's delight. I even got to keep the mac........which i got working!
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I saw recently on ebay that ebay and paypal are parting ways. I wonder is this a result of that
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2 years ago i bought a 512K on ebay from a guy in the states.......paid through paypal......when it arrived i opened the box and it was in bits!!......caseing was shattered. Looks like it was opened and the mac was dropped on a hard surface. The box was perfect no damage of any kind.
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went through all the usual....but in the end i got the full refund off paypal....to both the seller and myself's delight. I even got to keep the mac........which i got working!
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I saw recently on ebay that ebay and paypal are parting ways. I wonder is this a result of that
Sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to me when a local seller used "being out of town on business" as an excuse for putting off the local pickup I'd requested in lieu of shipment of a Radius/KDS LCD. Only $40 or $50 in my case. Thankfully, that's a cheap credit hour in the school of hard knocks.
Such appears to have instigated a "sniping frenzy" recently on PowerCache Accelerators. Since lowball bids with no incremental bidding activity over the course of the auction have become the norm on this kind of listing, I'm guessing a new tactic for instigating bidding wars has been deployed. Dunno the sellers(?) that may have been involved and don't care to do the research. I don't recall the Accelerators and bids involved in the round I noticed, but it could be a new version of shilling type activity.
When a sniper (the ONLY way to do eBay IMO, bidding wars during an auction only benefit the seller and who needs that?) is outbid on the first item ending, The buyers can be drawn into overbidding on the second or third listing set to end within minutes for a similar item.
Almost got drawn into overbidding that time around, no cost credit hour! Such is the only plausible explanation I've come up with for having multiple listings for similar items end in quick succession.
Such sales would also tend to inflate perceived value of items as a side benefit.
If I were of questionable character, that's the way I'd set that kind of thing up to maximize profits . . . just saying. :
I've got my suspicions about sellers(?) who've begun listing multiple, similar items ending in a short time frame:
Such appears to have instigated a "sniping frenzy" recently on PowerCache Accelerators. Since lowball bids with no incremental bidding activity over the course of the auction have become the norm on this kind of listing, I'm guessing a new tactic for instigating bidding wars has been deployed. Dunno the sellers(?) that may have been involved and don't care to do the research. I don't recall the Accelerators and bids involved in the round I noticed, but it could be a new version of shilling type activity.
When a sniper (the ONLY way to do eBay IMO, bidding wars during an auction only benefit the seller and who needs that?) is outbid on the first item ending, The buyers can be drawn into overbidding on the second or third listing set to end within minutes for a similar item.
Almost got drawn into overbidding that time around, no cost credit hour! Such is the only plausible explanation I've come up with for having multiple listings for similar items end in quick succession.
Such sales would also tend to inflate perceived value of items as a side benefit.
If I were of questionable character, that's the way I'd set that kind of thing up to maximize profits . . . just saying. :
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