eBay

preternatural · ‎12-02-2025

Hi,

I sold a vehicle on eBay auction. I put it up for 7 days. After 7 days it turned out a fake account had bought the van and was the winning bid. The fake account has not messaged me or even tried to contact me after 3 days.

Well, anyway,

My question is. I paid £15 to post this vehicle on eBay for 7days. Will I still have to pay this or will I get it refunded? What happens? I don't want to pay eBay for their site having fake accounts.

I can mark the buyer as a none payer and none shower tomorrow I think, the 13th.

I can't believe how much time I've wasted on eBay. It's just as bad as I remember. I wish I had just put it on a different site and never used eBay. I will remember this in the future.

Thank you for replies.

papso22 · ‎13-02-2025

@beyourb3st wrote:

You are sometimes very wrong.

If you can provide an example i will be happy to apologise, if I haven't already.

preternatural · ‎14-02-2025

Why are you tying to get me to use eBay again and again pay money to out a classified ad on?

Why should I have to take a loss when it should be eBay taking the loss? It has cost eBay £0 to have that auction on for 7 days. It has cost me £15. Why am I paying for eBay to be absolutely useless? I didn't get what I paid for. Look at how eBay has fallen. Daily people leaving. Billions of pounds lost each year to other platforms and still forcing users away over £15. Don't tell me how classified when if auction don't work why is auctions still on eBay?

beyourb3st · ‎14-02-2025

@papso22 wrote:
@beyourb3st wrote:
You are sometimes very wrong.
If you can provide an example i will be happy to apologise, if I haven't already.

You'd think.

papso22 · ‎14-02-2025

So you can't provide any examples? In which case you owe me an apology.

beyourb3st · ‎14-02-2025

@*vyolla* wrote:
@preternatural wrote:
I'm not paying another £20 for ebay to have scammers try to scam me again. Ive already paid £15 to have scammers waste my time on ebay. ebay is a dead site in 2025. It might as well just close down because of the amount of people jumping ship and leaving for sites like vinted, marketplace, amazon etc. Im not paying twice to sell a vehilce that should have already been sold 4 days ago. ebay can start banning ip address of scammers.
That would be your choice then.

I have tried to explain how a Classified Ad prevents you from having to deal with non-payers and scammers, but you must do what's best for you. If you want to cut your losses at £14.99 and sell elsewhere, then do that.

Why can you not see the very existence of this thread is the exact opposite ? The OP more than clearly hasn't posted this to request being persuaded to kiss money for nothing goodbye.

eBay should be sucking up the minor hosting cost loss and try again, given the SAME car is still being sold by the SAME seller which in itself proves the listing failed.

beyourb3st · ‎14-02-2025

@papso22 wrote:

So you can't provide any examples? In which case you owe me an apology.

meaning: you haven't got to go far. You've been here long enough doing the proverbial, long enough. Start a thread and ask for honest answers. Don't take my deniable word for it.

there are more people like you on this forum wrongly defending eBay.

*vyolla* · ‎14-02-2025

@beyourb3st wrote:

@*vyolla* wrote:

@preternatural wrote:

I'm not paying another £20 for ebay to have scammers try to scam me again. Ive already paid £15 to have scammers waste my time on ebay. ebay is a dead site in 2025. It might as well just close down because of the amount of people jumping ship and leaving for sites like vinted, marketplace, amazon etc. Im not paying twice to sell a vehilce that should have already been sold 4 days ago. ebay can start banning ip address of scammers.

That would be your choice then.

I have tried to explain how a Classified Ad prevents you from having to deal with non-payers and scammers, but you must do what's best for you. If you want to cut your losses at £14.99 and sell elsewhere, then do that.

Why can you not see the very existence of this thread is the exact opposite ? The OP more than clearly hasn't posted this to request being persuaded to kiss money for nothing goodbye.

eBay should be sucking up the minor hosting cost loss and try again, given the SAME car is still being sold by the SAME seller which in itself proves the listing failed.

I like to deal in facts, and explain what the actual options are.

Listing fees are non-refundable, so that £14.99 has gone. It's a chance you take when listing in auction format, it's always possible that you're going to get a non-payer or a tyre kicker if they do turn up, something to consider when listing in auction.

I'm merely trying to explain that (should the OP choose to try and list it again), they should choose Classified Ad format which avoids non-payers.

*vyolla* · ‎14-02-2025

@preternatural wrote:

Why are you tying to get me to use eBay again and again pay money to out a classified ad on?

Why should I have to take a loss when it should be eBay taking the loss? It has cost eBay £0 to have that auction on for 7 days. It has cost me £15. Why am I paying for eBay to be absolutely useless? I didn't get what I paid for. Look at how eBay has fallen. Daily people leaving. Billions of pounds lost each year to other platforms and still forcing users away over £15. Don't tell me how classified when if auction don't work why is auctions still on eBay?

I'm not trying to get you to use eBay again. I am explaining how better to use the platform should you choose to do so. I don't get your £14.99 listing fee so have no vested interest in what path you do or don't take - on this forum we're just experienced eBay buyers/sellers offering advice. Of course you don't have to take it, I believe I made that clear in my post.