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Bizzare problem at checkout

EBay will not let me checkout when I try to buy a certain type of perfume from ANY seller, in any part of the country, even if they have sent me an offer!I have bought this particular perfume (Prada paradoxe) in the past few months off eBay sellers w...

Resolved! Click and Collect

Hi,My preferred 'click and collect' option is Argos in Sainsburys. But whenever I try to purchase certain products this is not an option and gives a random newsagent instead. Is this a seller option or ebay?Thanks for any response.M.

Charged postage when click and collect was chosen

I have just bought an item local to me and there was an option to click and collect for no postage charge and I authorised the amount I had offered to be taken from my account. Ebay charged me the cost including postage and the seller has confirmed E...

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...

Age Verification ???

I am 71 and have severe arthritis in my fingers so cannot grip the pruners without severe pain, saw cordless pruners and thought thats awesome I can use those !! ha, after ages of selecting a pair I then found at checkout I cannot buy them as I have ...

Not complete at checkout

I bought two adult bibs this morning, put all of my card details in. When it came to the checkout a message came up that the seller only supplies every 10 days? I have checked your site again and that seller is no longer on it. What’s going on? Has m...

Resolved! No Click & Collect option when offers are accepted then autopaid

Hi all, when making an offer on an item that has the Click & Collect option, you get the warning window that if the offer is accepted, your default payment method is used to autopay for the said item, however, it will only show you your primary addre...

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I bought a motorcycle it was listed as cash on collection sending courier ebay not allowing patment

I bought a motorcycle it was listed as payment on collectionand the seller agreed to a couier but now ebay wont allowMe to pay for it through ebay I got ebay to call Me theperson said the only option was to use paypal outsideof ebay and that no help ...

Age verification

Tried to checkout on a set of small chisels and i need to verify my age.. well Ebay unfortunately i don't have a credit card and never have or will.. I'm 60yrs old and have been a member since 2005, Absolutely crazy.. sort yourselves out.

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why does ebay allow clearly counterfeit goods?

I buy a t-shirt sold as a brand but they send out a cheap t-shirt with the brand poorly printed on it, ebay considers that genuine??? ebay refuse my appeal and I dont see how to take it any further. I am sure trading standards would seize these sort ...

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Proof of age?

I tried to buy a little chainsaw; considered, apparently, a "bladed article". Couldn't complete the purchase due to failure of Ebay s'ware reading card, despite using picture. Why is Ebay asking for proof of age when, by its own records, I have been ...

Double tax on purchases by overseas buyers?

Hi Everyone,I recently purchased an item from the UK and was surprised to see 2 lots of TAX applied. Can anyone tell me what the first lot of tax is for? Not a great amount but it's bad enough with the s%&t Oz dollar to sterling to have to pay double...

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Won 3 items but cannot pay for them as they have vanished???

Put an offer in on 3 separate items from the same seller yesterday evening ,all 3 offers were accepted(had emails saying offers had been accepted) but the bizarre thing is they have vanished and I cannot find them anywhere in order to pay for them.I ...

Resolved! VAT

I bought a secondhand item from a UK seller for £66.48p + £2.25p Postage +0.97p VAT. 0.97p doesn't appear to be 20% of any of these figures so just out of interest what is the reason for the 97p VAT?