I'm with you. I posted my '82 300D on eBay about a month ago, and it
was immediately bid up to my reserve price by a guy in Austin. I
thought "why would a guy in Austin bid on this car?" but he had quite
a history and a 100% approval rating, so I was pretty comfortable
with it.
Comes the end of the auction, and in the last minute the guy is
outbid by one dollar by a new user with no bid history and no rating.
And of course he reneged on the deal, citing a "family emergency."
I did some sleuthing, and found out the second bidder is from Austin,
too -- what a coincidence! I sent an email to both guys accusing
them of being the same person and got no response from either.
In a nutshell, the first bidder (the one with the history) sells cars
similar to the one I was selling, so he essentially took mine off the
market by bidding it up, then got out of the deal by using his second
account to outbid himself. I had to wait through eBay's mandated time
periods (a total of about three weeks) before I could get my account
credited -- I'm sure glad the credit card they have on file for me is
expired, or they would have sucked their commission out of my account
and it would have taken me even longer to get a refund.
And there is absolutely no way to complain about this guy. As Kaleb
so eloquently put it, sellers have no recourse.
So screw eBay. Craigslist hasn't worked for me either. I guess I'll
advertise it on autotrader.com -- $65 for an ad that runs for up to a
year, which is cheaper than eBay. Or I'll just buy a car cover for it
and keep it so the mice have a place to live in the winter, and add
it to my list of projects.
--mf
On 11/21/09, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote:
I have just about had it with ebay. I took quite a long break from
ebay
because of all of their rule changes, and have recently been
selling a few
things there. Nothing is selling for anywhere near what it should,
most
things that usually do sell are not getting bids. So some jackass
johnny
come lately with 30 something feedback, who has only been a member
for a few
months leaves me negative feedback saying his item never showed
up. This
guy never contacted me, apparently did not pay attention to
delivery times
in the auction, never paid attention to the tracking info that was
emailed
to him when it shipped. He even pays for parcel post to cheap out
on the
shipping but I went ahead and shipped it fedex for him. And he leave
negative feedback. Ebay has cut the balls off of sellers and they
cant
leave negative feedback for these type of buyers. I am done, it is
just not
worth it at all.
What else is out there to sell parts and such on?
--
Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
95 E300, 92 500SEL, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 350SDL, 91 300D, 89
560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D
euro
manny, 76 240D, 76 300D, http://www.okiebenz.com
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L. Mark Finch
1982 300D
1991 300E 2.6
1995 E320 wagon
(1985 Jag XJ6, 1960 A-H Sprite, 1969 Triumph Tiger)
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