So with EBay, what stops you...

[Neil]

...just opening up a false account and bidding £1,000,000 for loads of items over and over?

[Danny]

better things to do?, tracing i.s.p numbers?, distracting free internet porn?:D

[DjfunkmasterG]

Don't you need a credit card to sign up now?

[MikePizzoff]

...just opening up a false account and bidding £1,000,000 for loads of items over and over?

The fact that even if you do that it's a complete waste of time because you still have to pay for those items in order to receive them.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

I don't think Neil quite understands how eBay works?

Neil, relax, just make an eBay account, buy, sell ... enrich your life tenfold with countless oddity's and obscure brick a brac and you will NEVER look back :D

The high street is truly doomed ... mark my words!

Remember that deformed deep sea squid specimen in embalming fluid you always wanted when you were a young man about town? It could be yours today ... for just 99p with no reserve!

[Neil]

No, I completely understand how EBay works... And also understand that the internet is full of Llamas... As such I'm wondering what stops the aforementioned Llamas bidding and not paying for stuff on EBay for "a laugh"?

[axlish]

Because their account gets booted. Why all the skepticism? Bid, sell and enjoy like the rest of the world.

[MikePizzoff]

I've seen it happen with a few items over the past five or six years. But it's a very rare occurance. People cherrish their accounts.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

No, I completely understand how EBay works... And also understand that the internet is full of Llamas... As such I'm wondering what stops the aforementioned Llamas bidding and not paying for stuff on EBay for "a laugh"?


You will find that a LOT of sellers actually specify that bidders with ten or less feedback need to email FIRST to confirm that they DO intend to pay IF they win, or their bids WILL almost certainly be removed.

What you are asking about does happen occasionally i am sure, but probably a lot less than you imagine, and 9 times out of 10 it is most likely down to new users (less than ten feedback profiles) failing to understand the concept of eBay, IE by bidding you are entering a legally binding contract and must pay for what you win, rather than some random idiot bidding on loads of stuff with no intention of paying, just "for a laugh".

Seriously, i would not worry about it. If this question is in relation to stuff you are selling yourself, you can always remove a persons bids, at any time before the auction ends, if they have bad feedback/no feedback/less than ten feedback, or if they do not contact you prior to placing a bid, or even if you just have a bad feeling about them ... with a swift left click ;)

Absolute piece of p1ss and nothing to be worried about.

[Debbieangel]

myself, I buy sewing patterns, zombie movies for cheap, right now I have a bid for NOTLD for $0.02 which is cool and I use paypal. I dont buy alot on ebay ya gotta becareful on there.
Anyway, thats my ebay buying! OOh and if someone dont come through with what they are selling like not in good shape or whatever you can give them negative feedback(which I have never have given)! That is something a Seller does not want to get for sure!!! Too many bad feedbacks and people wont purchase from them! Neildo you do ebay?

[Cody]

I didnt pay once, but thats after I cliked the buynow button then relize the only way you could pay was with a check and not paypal

[Danny]

No, I completely understand how EBay works... And also understand that the internet is full of Llamas... As such I'm wondering what stops the aforementioned Llamas bidding and not paying for stuff on EBay for "a laugh"?

this calls for 5 minutes in paint:D

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/khazrak/cyberspaceLAAMAS.jpg

[DjfunkmasterG]

I have been on eBay for 3 years and only got stiffed once. I filed an upaid item dispute and they gave me my listing fee back and refunded the final Value fee.

Ebay has improved greatly over the last few years.

I have a feedback of 380 and only 3 negatives one was an item I sent the Money order for, the guy cashed it then never sent my stuff and still left me a neg. I tried to dispute it but eBays dispute policy on neg feedback sucked back in 2004.

The other 2 were because people weren't happy with the item once they got it. I list everything as accurately as I can, and take tons of pictures of the item to make sure I give them the best possible representation of said item, but like the movie business you can't please everyone.

[Cody]

^^I boughta Dawn sealed vhs of ebay once. I swear that vhs was drifting in the sea for a couple years before it went on ebay...all salty :p

[Danny]

i bought every walking dead comic for £28 quid form some asshole in texas, i paid, for 2 months didnt hear anyhting, snet many emails ,got one back calling me a "noob buyer, OWNED!!", then he said he was dying so he wouldnt speak to me again.
funny that he's still selling stuff there to this day and when my brother on his account asked his name it was still the same guy still scamming people adn he aint banned.

[slickwilly13]

I have an ebay question for those who sold things. I currently have a gold star rating from my purchases, but I have never sold any items before. Will there be a seperate seller rating or will my gold star rating remain the same regardless if I am a buyer or a seller?

[MikePizzoff]

It remains the same, regardless. Just look at other sellers feedback. You'll see both from selling and buying.

[slickwilly13]

Good. I have nothing to worry about then. Thanks.

[Philly_SWAT]

I have never sold anything, but have bought about 50 items. I have one negative feedback and it pisses me off. I won a DOTD VHS copy, it was only like $1 plus $4 shipping or something, I just got it for the hell of it. The guy I won the auction from had hundreds of sells and good rep. Well, I sent him the money order he wanted (no paypal, for some reason), and later, not only did he claim not to get the money order, but that he didnt even remember me or the fact that I won anything. I was emailing him and asking "well, isnt it on your account?" He said he sold too much stuff to check. I gave him a bad rep. He then gives me a bad rep, saying that he tried to contact me several times and that I wouldnt pay! A few months after that, his accoung was removed as being a bad trader, but ebay would not remove the negative comment from my account.

[Danny]

i got 3 for buying 3 comics off a guy ,paid first class next day devlivery and got em in 3 weeks, he said they would be late then got pissed when i left a nuetral, even though he still took the payement for first class.

[Tied2thetracks]

I buy and sell, not very much these days. I have one bad rep because I complained about somthing I bought. A CD that was not what was advertised, a $5 shipping fee for a disc w/o a case. I send the gal(no longer a memeber) an email saying I wan't happy with it so she hit me with negative feedback, I returned the favor.

I remember back when Eminem was really popular someone bid on his childhood home on 8 mile and stiffed them for a mil or so.

[CivilDefense]

I have bought and sold a ton of stuff. Most of my listings I strictly put, ZERO BIDDERS do not bid, and I delete and ban users who cant understand this. I also put in the listing anyone who is from nigeria or 519, and no I wont ship it to your nephew in college in kualalampur.

And of course, even so you have to delete and ban people if selling anything at all electronic. (cell phones, laptops etc)

otherwise I love it, its truly amazing the crap people will buy, I list all sorts of crap when its 10cts listing day.

The last was several lots of those old "bradford mint" collector plates someone gave me, they have norman rockwell, scenes from okahoma and the like. And the wooden frames they went in.. Sold in lots of 10. The plates, couldnt get a 99cts bid for lots of ten. The frames, about $13 a piece.. :eek:

last year, an old 1.5 litre coke bottle with cap, sold for $15 after shipping, and a steel diet coke can, NOW WITH ASPARTAME! went for $7.

Mostly its pretty reliable, but you really have to be harcore against beginning bidders and nigerians.

[Cody]

hellsing and philly you guys got f****