Sick of people ruining Ebay

[bat_master]

Re: Sick of people ruining Ebay

Hi Everyone,

In my opinion there are several other things on ebay that "ruin" it far worse that just people ending auctions early.

1. The Buy It Now - It isn't the buy it now option that I don't like. It's that as a seller it takes 2 to 3 hours for an item with a Buy It Now option to even appear.

2. Misclassification of items - I don't care who the player is...an Upper Deck game used bat card does not belong in the "GAME USED MEMORABILIA" category. In my opinion this really clogs things up.

3. Ebay cancelling auctions that they feel violate some rule. Now I've read the rules, and agree that I was in violation. But why only cancel 3 of the 29? Especially the rule about not listing a website in a listing. I've seen several sellers that have their site listed in the auction listing. Those never get canceled.

I guess that's about it. The sad thing is that I really believe that ebay could be a great place to buy and sell. Just too many idiots with free reign and too much time on their hands.

Just my two cents

Tim Byington

https://www.tjsportsmn.com

[worldchamps]

Re: Sick of people ruining Ebay

I feel cheated too, when I am wanting to bid on an item and I go to bid on it and it has been ended early...oh well.

What really drives me insane is when I am selling something and someone contacts me with an offer that is so low to end the item. If the min. bid is $100 why would you contact someone to end the auction at $60. I get this all the time, everytime I respond back the same. I want to let the auction at least get a chance to reach the min bid, it serves me no purpose to end the auction early at a lesser price.

Do you all get these crazy offers too?

[sportscentury]

Re: Sick of people ruining Ebay

I feel cheated too, when I am wanting to bid on an item and I go to bid on it and it has been ended early...oh well.

What really drives me insane is when I am selling something and someone contacts me with an offer that is so low to end the item. If the min. bid is $100 why would you contact someone to end the auction at $60. I get this all the time, everytime I respond back the same. I want to let the auction at least get a chance to reach the min bid, it serves me no purpose to end the auction early at a lesser price.

Do you all get these crazy offers too?

WorldChamps,

I have been thinking long and hard about the same question. I have come up with a theory and I want to run it by you: There is an incredibly high number of whackos, crazies, flakes, tire-kickers, scam artists, frauds, game-players and straight up nut-jobs on eBay.

Well, what do you think? Might I be on to something?

I get the same crazy offers you do ... and I agree with you that it's hard to make sense of it all. With that said, I've met some of the coolest guys around on eBay (several of whom are regular contributors to this forum), so, like many things in life, you just have to take the good with the bad. But I don't even respond to the more ridiculous questions any longer ... it's bad enough to have to waste your time reading them!

Reid

[stkmtimo]

Re: Sick of people ruining Ebay

I have gotten the crazy offers as well. I sold an item for $400+ lately and an offer towards the end of the auction was for $225!

Tim