selling on ebay sometimes sucks big time. detailed description of an item listed under N-scale. 3 hours before the auction ends the winning bidder asks if this item was ho-scale. after i denied he said that i didn't mention it is n-scale. what did this idiot think why i listed the engine under n-scale ?? now he does not want to pay. guess he will just leave negative feedback because he was to dumb to read. sellers, beware of buyer 'ozark-traveler' !!!
They cant leave you negative feedback like that. Buyers responsibility to read description and under ebay clause I believe so long as saler described item in a reasonable matter, ie used etc you are protected. Contact ebay. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Good luck. I've had something similar happen to me. Ebay will usually take your side and afterwards block the buyer to prevent any other issues. Stupid people do stupid things. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
I would have to think that, especially if you have the correspondence to include, you'll come out on top. Blaming you for someone else's failure to read the complete listing would just be wrong.
Things are picking up on eBay lately. By that I mean there are more idiots than normal. I have had a problem lately with people just not leaving feedback. In a two week period I had 3 buyers not leave feedback (the 60 day window has closed on all of them now) and I had 3 sellers not leave feedback, even though I paid immediately and gave them positive feedback as soon as the items showed up. Just plain rude I guess.
I have had some sellers not leave feedback. As a buyer I won't leave feedback anymore unless the seller leaves feedback first.
I have encountered a few sellers who stated outright, in their item description, they did not leave feedback. Too busy to do it, they'd explained. (Even though they were certainly accumulating feedback from buyers.) I returned the favor, leaving nothing, as that attitude for ducking a kindness deserves a big zero. But this is getting away from Sandro's point...
my eBay rant how can locomotives manufactured 10 or even 20 years ago be "brand new, mint condition"? seems like there are zillions of stockpiled original new locomotives sitting in storage since the 80's and 90's... but, then, I digress. Gary
gary what about collector pieces that have never been out of the box ? condition is brand new, manufacturing date might be years ago. actually you can't even buy brand new stuff. everything is at least a few weeks old.
It's called "New Old Stock". (NOS- pronounced en-oh-ess.) For example, NOS in the automotive restoration world can be gold.
Had an issue a while back about the same thing wrong scale. Sent the item and the the buyer filled a case stating wrong items where shipped. After calling eBay and talking to a live person eBay dropped the case because I listed everything the right way. It was the buyers fault for not double checking the item before he bid.
It might pay to get screen shots of your listings just so idiots like this fella can be shown what they missed. A little bit of a hassle but it might be worth it to be able to show them their mistake.
It is easy to miss scale designations in some listings. And, ebay quite often lists wrong scale items in scale-specific searches. I have added several items to my watch list only to read them carefully before bidding to find that they are NOT N scale. In one case, I needed to ask the seller what scale the item is, and got an answer asking me how the seller could figure out what scale it is. (It was a car, so I gave them them the dimensions between the wheel flanges for the likely suspect scales, and the seller fixed the listing.) MY most recent ebay mess was a list of "buy it now" items from the same vendor that somehow automatically changed all multple quantity items to 1s as soon as I clicked on the "ask seller to recalculate total" button so I could get combined shipping. I could not get ebay to do it right, but was "committed" to buy one of each item. After an hour on the phone with somebody in Asia, who couldn't fix it either, I managed to get transferred to somebody who could put me in touch with the seller and we manually cancelled the whole thing and I reordered correctly on the phone. The seller was really nice about it, and even said that it had happened to them before.
RC Airplane guys are the worst. Pictures, item description, everything as clear as all get out and most bids selling the item well under cost and they still either complain or don't leave feedback. On all items, I take pictures, leave a full description as far as what it is, what maybe wrong with it and usually sell it as is with no reserve. What it comes down to is people not reading, bidding first asking questions after the auction has ended, plain lazziness.
That happened to me so I add N scale in the heading description and the main description. Even after that I had some one ask if a loco I had on Ebay was HO. I thought I forgot to add the N scale description so I checked and sure enough I had it labeled N scale . Told the person no it is listed in the correct scale . I wanted to reply with other remarks but. Rick
