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Resolved! Returned item never collected by seller

So purchased an item that was not as described and seller agreed to a refund and return. They provided return postage by Royal Mail. The item has a RRP around £400, so not cheap!Today the item has been returned to me as the seller never collected it ...

Considering closing my account

Back in the early days of eBay I mainly sold but stopped selling when eBay started charging a fee on postage.Untill recently eBay would be my first place I would look for items with the sellers protection fee I feel eBay is too expensive.

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Stopping sellers using Evri

I am sure there will be many like me who are bemused how Evri are still in business. I have had delivery after delivery fail or arrive late and nothing gets done because sellers keep using them.I just did a Trust pilot search on Evri UK their one sta...

The GOOD old days

Does anybody remember the good old days, when we found an auction of interest, CLICKED on the bids made, taking us to the BIDDING HISTORY of that auction, where you would find that ebay had encrypted the bidders user names, and you COULD have clicked...

incomplete items

It must have been two years ago when I bought a copy of the Liverpool Echo from May 1971 and, when I got it, I was horrified to discover that most of the paper was missing - absolutely f*****g horrified. To add insult to injury, yesterday I got a cop...

Wrong item sent.

Hi guys.I bought some BVC coils from a seller, they sent the wrong ones, they were for a Nautilus vape so don't fit mine.So they told me to open a returns request and send picture which I did they said they would accept and send the right ones out.No...

Resolved! Has the order gone to Netherlands?

Hello!I bought a product from eBay in the UK, which came via the Pitney Bowes carrier, it was supposed to go to Portugal, I noticed today that it appears on the tracking that it went to the Netherlands, I don't understand why, a few years ago I bough...

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Uk buyers now not allowed to buy from America!

Has any other UK buyer had this problem? I'm absolutely disgusted with eBay for ever implementing it. It's so discriminating and weird. Basically if you're in the UK, you are now no longer allowed to buy from any seller in America, no matter how hard...

Extra hidden cost

Hi there. Bid on a private listing for a code to be delivered by direct message. However I won the auction at £39 in the auction and with the £2.29 buyer protection it says £41. On the selling page it says it's free standard tracked delivery. Yet whe...

Different prices in Chrome vs Firefox

I normally use Firefox, but I’ve discovered that on Chrome, the price of an ebay item changes once you put it into the basket. For example, there is a listing for Readers Digest Gardeners Encylopedia at £23.17. I tested putting that in the basket usi...

Seller is in China

I wanted to buy an item that I needed quickly, so I chose UK Only. The listing showed the seller to be in Manchester. I received email comfirmation of the order, which showed that the seller is actually in China. I could have bought the item from Ali...

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