topic Re: Stupid addresses in After Hours

Stupid addresses

muzzy17171 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:54:25 GMT

In what world is it right that a newbie is allowed to open an account & bid with an address as follows

Aiport (yes - that is how it was spelt)

City

Country

Obviously I have not mentioned the accurate detail - but please Ebay a little more vetting?!?!!??

And I stated "UK ONLY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loose all round cos the likelyhood of this transaction going through smoothly is zero cos have specified highly costly international signed for.

Re: Stupid addresses

xtf70 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:24:53 GMT

Sounds like malicious bidding to me there..

Re: Stupid addresses

right-then-petal — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:58:05 GMT

aiport came up as cardiff airport

Re: Stupid addresses

rose2008-2008 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:03:48 GMT

LUTON AIRPORT OOOWEEE OOOO!!!! lol,lol,lol

Re: Stupid addresses

hotrodasaurus — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:15:18 GMT

Wasting time now.

So is **bleep**, yes it is real and very apt for Egypt

look it up or cut and paste this into Street View.

**bleep** Al Hawa, Kafr Hammad, Markaz Kafr Saqr, Ash Sharqiyah, Egypt

So if you sell something and you want their address, it may go somethng like this.

Seller. "Where do you live"

Buyer "I live in **bleep**"

Seller. " I suppose living in Egypt you must be"

Re: Stupid addresses

theantiquecompany — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 20:53:10 GMT

it's probably a place in Ireland 🙂

Re: Stupid addresses

toon1990 — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:53:53 GMT

@pufflewick wrote:
it's probably a place in Ireland 🙂

Hey, we'll soon have postcodes .... in 2015

Re: Stupid addresses

blugg_bug — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:36:03 GMT

I have a house name. Not a number. If i had a £1 for every powerseller who asked me for my right address 😕

Re: Stupid addresses

cosmic_unicorn — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:30:48 GMT

I had a buyer just over a year ago whose address was something very like this:

joebloggscoalbunkerupleftalleyroundbackof18secondave

somenortherntown

xx123yy

The first line of the address really was that long and didn't have a single space, comma or any punctuation including his name - which wasn't Joe Bloggs (I made that bit up).

I checked RM's Postcode/Address finder and googled as well just in case "coal bunker" was a pub name or something similar but no, it wasn't a valid address at all.

What's worse, he bought £80+ of stuff and DEMANDED that I must NOT send it tracked and that he would take the risk of it getting lost in the post!

Well I'm not falling for that one - especially since his feedback indicated that he had a very high proportion of refunds for items "lost in the post" - or possibly stolen from the coal bunker.

I contacted him to ask for a more conventional address and he very rudely declined.

EBay refused to acknowledge that there was anything wrong with the address.

After that, everything went decidedly pear shaped.