Cancel order and leave negative feedback?

[3narf]

I thought I sold my car yesterday. It turned out the buyer just wanted to come and look & test drive it. He got funny when I took issue with this, and told me to sell it to someone else.

I had 1200 views and 100 watching and now I have to readvertise it, so I'm less than impressed. I can't relist it unless I cancel the order and if I do I won't be able to leave negative feedback for this timewaster. 

If I don't cancel the order, and just start a new listing, I'll get charged a fee for selling it the first time! 

What should I do?

[arkwebus]

Would you expect a buyer to 100% commit on just the description of a car for £4000?  The general advice that we give is to do as the buyer did. Take a wodge of cash, view the car and pay if suitable. 

The best way to sell a car is to list it as a "classified advert on eBay" which enables just that and you can add your contact details.   You can either cancel or open a non-payer case to get a final fee [but not listing fee] back.   You may be able to make a second chance offer to the underbidder.

As a seller you cannot leave negative feedback and must not try to circumvent that by - for example - an adverse comment on a green spot.

@3narf 

[3narf]

Yes, of course I expect them to buy! It was on ebay for ten days and they could have viewed at any point. So you think it's for 99 people to miss out so 1 can come and view?

Anyway, he didn't actually come. When I asked him if he was definitely interested he got funny, so obviously never intended to buy.

[pixiesen2012]

they couldn't have viewed at any point, as ebay have banned the exchange of contact details

[3narf]

Well, clearly that doesn't work.

[pixiesen2012]

it does work, but not in the way you want it to,


now people bid to view,


once they have won the bid they go and view the car and pay if they want it, or walk away if they don't

if you don't like this way you need to list as a 'classified ad' you then pay one fee to adverise your car for one month,

people can then come and view the car and buy it if they want to, but you don't end the listing until after they have paid for it.

[3narf]

Ok, so is it only cars where winning an auction isn't a commitment to buy? Or is there a certain monetary value where this applies? Who decides that?

[pixiesen2012]

it is mainly cars and property,

but as people cannot view before purchase anything that is collection only is treated in the same way

[3narf]

And I meant - clearly the no contact policy doesn't work, as I gave my phone number to several watchers with no problems.