People who shop on Ebay are wanquas

[Daggers]

...and the one's that aren't wanquas are just plain dumb.

Case 1: Person puts in bids on a camera lens. After winning he sends me emails asking me what type it is (clearly stated in auction). After five emails asking dumb**** questions they say "I have made a mistake, can we cancel my bids" Er...no.

Case 2: Person offers £150.00 for everything, is refused, sends me three emails a day for 10 days asking me about stuff. Wins some stuff. Sends me no more emails...or money.

Case 3: Person wins two items then sends me email to say he will pop over in a week or two, when he can schedule it, to examine them to see if he'll buy them at the winning price. Over my dead and decaying corpse you shit!

Case 4: Person emails me to ask if they have to pay the postage. Unless you have a ****ing matter-transporter like you'd expect to see on Dr.****ingWho, then yes you ****ing do!

Case 5: I am paid £72.00 for a second hand lens that costs £52 new, and I got for a tenner second hand.

Case 6: I paid £170.00 for a zoom lens six years ago ~ I just got £305.00 for it. Paid!

Case 8: A camera lead that I expected two quid for raised £30 and a lead that links a camera to a flash unit...forty eight of her Maj's finest pounds.

...and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the sheer level of rank stupidity contained within most of the emailed questions I was sent...the answers to which were all in the ad itself that they hadn't bothered to read...or, that required me to have detailed knowledge about their camera. As for the idiots that paid me stupid amounts of money for things that quite simply were not worth that much - I laugh at them. I laugh loudly.

Morons, the sodding lot of them. Ignorant, dumbass semi-literate ****nuts.

So far, I've made £898.15 ... and am owed a further £754 ... plus postage. I think there was a lot of drunk bank-holiday bidding going on

[Fez of Mahrez]

The bloke in the bed next to me in hospital bought a car on Ebay, came over from Bedford to Northampton to buy it and was ambushed when he arrived. Attacked by a group of men with iron bars who beat him all over his body. He can barely walk, has bruises from head to toe and has lost an eye.

[Daggers]

The bloke in the bed next to me in hospital bought a car on Ebay, came over from Bedford to Northampton to buy it and was ambushed when he arrived. Attacked by a group of men with iron bars who beat him all over his body. He can barely walk, has bruises from head to toe and has lost an eye.

Caveat emptor

[Leicfox]

My old man bought a MK2 Jaguar on ebay for 8k, we had to travel down from Blackpool to Bodmin to pick it up though. It was worth it though as its in mint condition and worth about 14k easy.

Also regarding selling on ebay dave, i agree some rite skull ****s about and ive made over £300 in a few days just selling old clothes and junk from the garage.

[Daggers]

Also regarding selling on ebay dave, i agree some rite skull ****s about and ive made over £300 in a few days just selling old clothes and junk from the garage.

I've noticed it when bidding for stuff - all of a sudden you see the price approach then go above what you could pay somewhere like Amazon. It's mental.

There's a disconnect due to people setting up Ebay accounts with credit cards - they don't see it like spending real money and the only important thing for them to do is 'win'.

I shouldn't be complaining with the killing I just made...but it worries me that these people get to vote and have babies.

[Rincewind]

Well I cant sell the PC games that wont work on my system. Probably not making the sound glamorous enough. I'm only giving the basic description and being honest about the specs.

Talking of cameras I have a cabinet full of old cameras. I used to collect them. I was thinking of selling them on but as above my sales pitch may not be good enough to make a huge profit. Plus there is all the postage etc to contend with. I have one or two box brownies and twin-reflex cameras. I also have cine cameras and darkroom equipment. I really need the space so I can have room for my books.

The thing is if I sell something for over the value I might have a twinge of conscience. Anyway I may look at similar items and price them the same. When I bought my camers I tended to go for the unusual ones. It was more for displaying them than using them so being workable was secondary.

[DanTheFoxBhoy]

Case 3: Person wins two items then sends me email to say he will pop over in a week or two, when he can schedule it, to examine them to see if he'll buy them at the winning price. Over my dead and decaying corpse you shit!

What a pretentious colon warrior

[Thracian]

...and the one's that aren't wanquas are just plain dumb.

Case 1: Person puts in bids on a camera lens. After winning he sends me emails asking me what type it is (clearly stated in auction). After five emails asking dumb**** questions they say "I have made a mistake, can we cancel my bids" Er...no.

Case 2: Person offers £150.00 for everything, is refused, sends me three emails a day for 10 days asking me about stuff. Wins some stuff. Sends me no more emails...or money.

Case 3: Person wins two items then sends me email to say he will pop over in a week or two, when he can schedule it, to examine them to see if he'll buy them at the winning price. Over my dead and decaying corpse you shit!

Case 4: Person emails me to ask if they have to pay the postage. Unless you have a ****ing matter-transporter like you'd expect to see on Dr.****ingWho, then yes you ****ing do!

Case 5: I am paid £72.00 for a second hand lens that costs £52 new, and I got for a tenner second hand.

Case 6: I paid £170.00 for a zoom lens six years ago ~ I just got £305.00 for it. Paid!

Case 8: A camera lead that I expected two quid for raised £30 and a lead that links a camera to a flash unit...forty eight of her Maj's finest pounds.

...and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the sheer level of rank stupidity contained within most of the emailed questions I was sent...the answers to which were all in the ad itself that they hadn't bothered to read...or, that required me to have detailed knowledge about their camera. As for the idiots that paid me stupid amounts of money for things that quite simply were not worth that much - I laugh at them. I laugh loudly.

Morons, the sodding lot of them. Ignorant, dumbass semi-literate ****nuts.

So far, I've made £898.15 ... and am owed a further £754 ... plus postage. I think there was a lot of drunk bank-holiday bidding going on

I've long given up trying to underrstand people. After a while it just washes over you. I remember at a fair in Rugby once I got so fed up I put all my items upside down so folks could see the bottom of them...including five from a set of six toby jugs.

An old dear came up and asked the price and I said I wasn't selling them. I explained that inverted toby jugs were extremely rare - most stood the conventional way up - and that I had just brought them along in case someone had the sixth one to make up my set.

The lady insisted her mother had a set and that she'd always thought they looked a bit wonky standing the normal way up!

"I shall let her know now," she said, "and thanks for the advice."

[Flynny]

What a pretentious colon warrior

That's the best phrase I've never heard.

[potter3]

I've long given up trying to underrstand people. After a while it just washes over you. I remember at a fair in Rugby once I got so fed up I put all my items upside down so folks could see the bottom of them...including five from a set of six toby jugs.

An old dear came up and asked the price and I said I wasn't selling them. I explained that inverted toby jugs were extremely rare - most stood the conventional way up - and that I had just brought them along in case someone had the sixth one to make up my set.

The lady insisted her mother had a set and that she'd always thought they looked a bit wonky standing the normal way up!

"I shall let her know now," she said, "and thanks for the advice."

:laugh: Should haver told them they were extremely rare and valuable and seen how much she would have paid.

[Daggers]

I've long given up trying to underrstand people. After a while it just washes over you. I remember at a fair in Rugby once I got so fed up I put all my items upside down so folks could see the bottom of them...including five from a set of six toby jugs.

An old dear came up and asked the price and I said I wasn't selling them. I explained that inverted toby jugs were extremely rare - most stood the conventional way up - and that I had just brought them along in case someone had the sixth one to make up my set.

The lady insisted her mother had a set and that she'd always thought they looked a bit wonky standing the normal way up!

"I shall let her know now," she said, "and thanks for the advice."

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Superb.

[Thracian]

:laugh: Should haver told them they were extremely rare and valuable and seen how much she would have paid.

You have to be careful what you tell folk.

Only a couple of years ago I spotted an advert in the Mercury for an inlaid walnut hall table.

I phoned the lady and agreed to visit.

When I arrived at her house in Enderby she explained that the table had been in her family for several generations and she was loathe to let it go but, try what she would, it simply would fit into her new house.

I explained that while the table was obviously a bargain, that from all she said it was obvious she'd have regrets after selling it and, picking the table up, moved it to various parts of her front room asked if it didn't look wonderful after all.

"No," she said, "it's still not right " "I've asked £175 for it but if I got £150 for it that would be close to the valuation we had just after my mother died - and that was close to 20 years ago now..."

It really is a bargain, I told her. The valuer must have wanted it for himself, I said, because in my opinion it's worth three times what you've advertised. "Oh God," I hadn't realised, "I don't think I want to sell it now," she wimpered, greed glowing in her eyes as I made my way to her front door.

What I didn't tell and what she didn't realise cos I'd grown a beard, was that I'd actually sold her the table at an auction I ran just two months earlier....!

[Daggers]

What I didn't tell and what she didn't realise cos I'd grown a beard, was that I'd actually sold her the table at an auction I ran just two months earlier....!

My Mum always told me that you could never trust people with beards

[Thracian]

:D

[Sly]

I tried my hand at World Of Warcraft...I soon got bored and tried to sell my account + game and had one soletary bidder of £50. The moment the auction had finished I recieved a message saying he didn't want it becuase he had bills to pay!!

Now I can no longer list it as eBay doesn't allow the listing of game accounts anymore!!

It cost me £5 to list as well!!

[Daggers]

I've got 80% of my money in now - well chuffed.

Big decision time ~ what bike to buy...hmm.

Do I go for carbon frame or ally. Where are you Cocopops? I'm sure you cycle.

[Guest]

If you make a bid in an auction, and that bid wins, you are obliged to pay up, or get sued for breach of contract.

[Babylon]

I tried my hand at World Of Warcraft...I soon got bored and tried to sell my account + game and had one soletary bidder of £50. The moment the auction had finished I recieved a message saying he didn't want it becuase he had bills to pay!!

Now I can no longer list it as eBay doesn't allow the listing of game accounts anymore!!

It cost me £5 to list as well!!

Your listing fee will be given back to you by ebay. You need to file a non payment complaint first though.

[Geo V]

I buy and sell retro games and stuff like that on Ebay and once I bought a joblot from some plank in Portsmouth who said I was bidding for 250 Gameboy games and accesories according to his add but when I won and asked to come and pick them up he refused. I finally found out that it was 10 Gameboy games and over 240 accesories . I went mad at him on the phone and it came through that he was obviously a con-artist. I tried to get him banned via Ebay but they didnt and he phoned me up to say "dont fook with the big boys" !! I laid low for a while and then on another account bought about 20 items from him over the course of a couple of days and didnt pay and called him back, telling him that I had decided to devote my life to messing up his businesses. He left that ebay account but some mates reckon he is at it on another account. Ebay is full of planks like this dude trying to rip people off but England is auction mad at the moment and its all that orange bloke Dickinsons fault.

[Suffolk_fox]

I put our old car on there, some guy won it then said he would pop up "Either this Friday or in 4 weeks time" to pick up the car. I told him to think again, and he said "It will have to be in 8 weeks time now, that's when I will have the money"

Needless to say, I gave him a few polite words, the nob end.

[Trumpet]

I dont have any junk to sell atm..

[Daggers]

If you make a bid in an auction, and that bid wins, you are obliged to pay up, or get sued for breach of contract.

You knows it

I've got five people not paid now ~ £377-odd ~ I have phone numbers for four of them and addresses for all five...and two I have tracked down on the internet and found pages about them and their work.

I have no qualms about taking them to Small Claims and doing them for the money owing and costs. With the end of an auction title passes to the winning bidder and they have a duty to pay the agreed amount.

For some reason, one guy seems to think "my price" is not good value. "Err...you offered £72.00, I asked for 1p! " Fuknut.

I feel a bit guilty that I posted one guys stuff 1st class this morning by mistake (when it should have gone special delivery). I reckon that whatever I do could be the wrong thing so I'm gonna wait for him to see it or not. If he notices I'll sub him half his dosh back, if not I'll pocket the readies...which will pay for the one that cost me £19.75 to post this morning and I only charged £6 for!

S'all fun and games innit.

[Rincewind]

Well it feeds the babes.

[Turtles Head]

...and the one's that aren't wanquas are just plain dumb.

Case 1: Person puts in bids on a camera lens. After winning he sends me emails asking me what type it is (clearly stated in auction). After five emails asking dumb**** questions they say "I have made a mistake, can we cancel my bids" Er...no.

Case 2: Person offers £150.00 for everything, is refused, sends me three emails a day for 10 days asking me about stuff. Wins some stuff. Sends me no more emails...or money.

Case 3: Person wins two items then sends me email to say he will pop over in a week or two, when he can schedule it, to examine them to see if he'll buy them at the winning price. Over my dead and decaying corpse you shit!

Case 4: Person emails me to ask if they have to pay the postage. Unless you have a ****ing matter-transporter like you'd expect to see on Dr.****ingWho, then yes you ****ing do!

Case 5: I am paid £72.00 for a second hand lens that costs £52 new, and I got for a tenner second hand.

Case 6: I paid £170.00 for a zoom lens six years ago ~ I just got £305.00 for it. Paid!

Case 8: A camera lead that I expected two quid for raised £30 and a lead that links a camera to a flash unit...forty eight of her Maj's finest pounds.

...and this doesn't even scratch the surface of the sheer level of rank stupidity contained within most of the emailed questions I was sent...the answers to which were all in the ad itself that they hadn't bothered to read...or, that required me to have detailed knowledge about their camera. As for the idiots that paid me stupid amounts of money for things that quite simply were not worth that much - I laugh at them. I laugh loudly.

Morons, the sodding lot of them. Ignorant, dumbass semi-literate ****nuts.

So far, I've made £898.15 ... and am owed a further £754 ... plus postage. I think there was a lot of drunk bank-holiday bidding going on

How do you make so much profit?

Do you build the product up that you're selling to make it sound better at all?

Or are people just genuinely thick?

Im seriously thinking about selling my stereo on there now, to fund buying a new one. It cost me £420 new, 2 years ago. Tempted to see what i might get for it

[Daggers]

How do you make so much profit?

I was painfully honest in my descriptions, but positive - if that makes sense.

i.e. "Something looks used" = "It is highly usable and is easy to operate"

I gave full and frank answers to every question, responded very promptly and set up an 'About Me' page - all of this lends TRUST and FAITH IN THE PRODUCT. If people are buying something they haven't seen off a person they don't know then the one thing they need is some kind of proof that they will receive it and it will be OK. The 'about me' section lets them get to know me, the feedback gets them to trust me, the honest and prompt detailed answers get them to trust the product.

This places a premium on what they would otherwise have been prepared to offer, they will extend their upper bid level as a result.

Now, I am not dumb - I am not going to say "This lens cost US$75 new and I am expecting £10 for it". That would be rank stupidity...because I expect them to do a bit of research BEFORE bidding.

But people are people...and people are dumb. People competing against other people to "win" and product are even dumber.

In my opinion, if you want something off Ebay then you fix an upper limit to what you are prepared to pay, enter it into Hammersnipe and sit back without making a single bid.

Always place your item up for auction for 10 days and schedule it so that it ends around tea-time on a Sunday...this gives the late Saturday night pisshead and the more subdued chap in his cardy a chance to ramp the bidding.

Always make your replies to questions appear on the site - it ups the ante for people. They get taken over by a sense that they 'must win' and lose sight that they are just making a purchase.

I hit a Bank Holiday weekend and had three self-confessed camera noobs all trying to outbid each other on stuff they didn't know the true value of. That's not the end though - because I wanted to give them added value, so all items were boxed in a "Really Useful Box"; these things aren't cheap, but it beats the crap out of receiving a cardboard box. I use paper from the shredder (inside ziplock food bags) as wadding...and everything gets sent Special Delivery, unless I forget .

In the end I banked £1,730.34 and paid £64.70 in postage: Not bad for an auction I expected £500-odd from.

The final thing to add is that you can sell almost anything to people (see Rule 1 about them being dumb). Sometimes you have to bite the bullet (I sold two items for 1 penny) simply because the bulk of the stuff returns silly profit.

I'm seriously considering doing this as a business sideline.