eBay, Selling, Buying and Issues.

[Esteban_cool]

The sole "Please if for any reason you have any doubts , please do not bid . I am not looking for any kind of mental gymnastic" is reason enough for me to stay away. I wouldn´t buy from that kind of shm**k. Who does he think he is to answer like that to a potential customer?

[Tommy]

I'd mail him back with a drawing of a man putting some dollars up another mans ass and thank him for advice.

[Eryk]

These guys cover each other - if you want to kill an hour look through the "feedback" and notice the mutual admiration society. Convenient way for out of NA suppliers of fakes to get their goods into the country without the red flag of buying from Ukraine, Baltics, etc.

I keep good old greg and others in my saved sellers, with comments such as:

"Accomplished faker, all forgeries, Australian"
"Only sells fakes"
"Sells fakes, especially documents"
"All fakes, all the time."
"Sells fakes, documents altered/forged"

That way over the years I don't forget who's who.

[pacha b]

IMHO What Greg needs is a date, and I think I have found the the perfect person,

Same city, same hobby... It's a match made in the baltics.

SOVIET RUSSIAN ORDER AND MEDAL OF RED BANNER OF LABOR SCREW BACK #5189 | eBay

[CtahhR]

Excellent!

These wrong doers need to be brought to everyone's attention.

[RedBanner1920]

Just felt like dropping in. But yes I have dealt with these types of dealers in the past as well. Now a days when it comes to Soviet items I wont buy from anyone from Eastern Europe period. There are just too headaches once you go past check point charlie.

[Tommy]

A little of topic, but an interesting thought.

I was speaking about E-Pay the other day with a colleague and said "Oh, i won X last night"

He replied, "you didn't win, you simply paid more money for it than anyone else."

This little saying reminds me that it's far too easy to get caught in the bidding frenzy and you should always stick to your guns and safely in your comfort zone!

Tommy

[CtahhR]

You certainly don't "win" at auction. Sell, bid and buy maybe and the house always wins!

[Auke]

Dear all,

I just wanted to open a topic about my latest eBay experiences. I wanted to liquidate a part of my collection, so I sold some 80 medals on eBay (and some in the marketplace here as well) during the last two months. Most transactions were completed without any problems, but I was surprised to see that quite a few transactions didn't go smoothly at all. In my auctions I clearly state that I require items to be paid for within three days. Since sellers can open non-paying bidder cases after just four days, that's not an unreasonable request I think. Plus, I'm always open to alternative payment plans - all buyers need to do is contact me.

Anyway, on Jan 12 I sold an order that wasn't paid for within my three-day period. After a week I sent the buyer a kind reminder, a few days later another one, and then I opened an unpaid item case. No money so far.

A buyer from Canada who won an order on Jan 15 sent me a few emails saying he would pay 1-2 days later, but no reply from him since. I'll open an unpaid item case this evening.

A guy from China paid after 19 days, only after I had sent him two reminders and told him I would open an unpaid item case in 48 hours.

And then there's another guy from China, who hasn't paid after winning a number of auctions 20 days ago. I told him too that I would open an unpaid item case in 48 hours.

And the list goes on.

More worrisome, though, is that this last buyer - who happens to be a forum member here with 107 posts to his name - opened an "item not received" case on an order he purchased from me earlier. He won a Mongolian order for $610 on Dec 22, paid for it through PayPal on Dec 27, and I shipped it that very same day (via registered mail). And now he wants a refund because he hasn't received the order yet. He claims he has contacted me repeatedly, but I haven't received a single message from him, neither a regular email nor an eBay message.

The strange thing is that eBay required me to respond to his claim on the German eBay, which is where he, apparently, opened the case, even though the item was listed on the American eBay and he is from China. I'm glad I speak German, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find my way through the German eBay pages. Anyway, I provided eBay with the tracking number and I told eBay that the buyer never tried to contact me. Do any of you have similar experiences? Do I have a chance of winning?

Sorry for my long rant. The moral of the story: only sell on eBay if you have the time and energy to deal with nut jobs, and always send your stuff via registered mail.

[CtahhR]

I believe this "107" post member is "problematic" at best. If you look about ebay a little bit you will find he doesn't pay for much!
A few years ago (4-5 not too sure time flies!) I purchased a large number of Mongolian Orders/Medals from him. All "buy it now" on ebay. I purchased them all in one big flurry and paid within a couple of minutes of receiving my invoice (I was pretty eager to get them). After paying dozens of dollars postage (possibly over $50) I was expecting a sizeable package about 2-3 weeks later.
I only received the ebay confirmation that the items had been posted 15 days later! I put the tracking number in the China Post website but the site was in its infancy and was pretty useless.
Long story short. The items NEVER came and I received no refund.
I have seen at least one of the Orders being resold on ebay by a dealer in California so it certainly didn't get lost in the post!