Argh. Lied to by a seller on eBay....

[randay]

*waits for ebay to respond "we are not responsible for the condition of the item"*

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: aphex
Just an update as well, just got off the phone with the seller, i'm sending it back today for a full refund. He promised to cover return shipping, but we'll see if that happens.

That's cool, at least he might be trying to right his wrong. That doesn't excuse him calling brand new in the first place, but it lessens his scummery.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape

Originally posted by: aphex
Ok. im gonna vomit. I just looked at the item closely through the packaging and there is clearly ear cheese on the earbud. FUCKING A.

ok guess I don't want any lunch today. :disgust:

That bothers you enough to not want to eat?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: ivan2
don't you see picture of the item before you buy? I will never buy anything without a picture...

Because nobody listing items on eBay has ever used google image search.

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

Originally posted by: aphex
Ok. im gonna vomit. I just looked at the item closely through the packaging and there is clearly ear cheese on the earbud. FUCKING A.

It's probably new and sealed in the box!

box is sealed by ear cheese?

 

[DayLaPaul]

Why is Best Buy even accepting returns on Bluetooth headsets? Sounds like a health risk to me.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: DayLaPaul
Why is Best Buy even accepting returns on Bluetooth headsets? Sounds like a health risk to me.

Because it's Best Buy....

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: PokerGuyOf course that's why you don't pay for anything with Paypal, or you're essentially up the creek in such a situation. All he'd have to do is show the receipt for shipping you the item and you'd lose.

Um, thats why you don't file under "Item not received." You file under "Significantly not as described." You'll get your money back, except you might be out return shipping. Paypal generally screws the seller, not the buyer.

 

[Packie]

That is disgusting lol

 

[SlickSnake]

I believe we are seeing sellers revenge against Ebay and Paypal by subjecting the buyers to scam after scam in an attempt to drive off buyers from Ebay.

I have made many transactions of HD-DVDs lately in the past 5 months where the sellers were simply scamming buyers and listing BUY IT NOW auctions they never had to ship in the first place. Or they would just list thousands of items for auction/sale, and simply never ship anything when it closed. And these are not low feedback new sellers, either. These are high feedback and high positive rated gold sellers who just decided to give Ebay the finger (along with Paypal) and took hundreds of buyers along for the joyride at the same time they decided to quit using Ebay/Paypal to sell.

This then leaves hundreds or even thousands of buyers per seller that have to dispute the transactions with Ebay/Paypal and meanwhile the sellers take in $1000's or even $100,000 or more of dollars in their "going out of business" scams. Just imagine 1000 people getting scammed buying $2000 flat screen HDTVs from one previously great seller, and you can imagine the magnitude of this problem now.

But Ebay/Paypal has been causing this sellers rebellion with all the constant fee increases and the fact a seller now can't even leave a negative feedback to a deadbeat buyer, so why would a seller even want to use Ebay anymore? Ebay is methodically killing the gooses that laid the golden eggs, and they are still too greedy to even notice it.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: SlickSnake
I believe we are seeing sellers revenge against Ebay and Paypal by subjecting the buyers to scam after scam in an attempt to drive off buyers from Ebay.

I have made many transactions of HD-DVDs lately in the past 5 months where the sellers were simply scamming buyers and listing BUY IT NOW auctions they never had to ship in the first place. Or they would just list thousands of items for auction/sale, and simply never ship anything when it closed. And these are not low feedback new sellers, either. These are high feedback and high positive rated gold sellers who just decided to give Ebay the finger (along with Paypal) and took hundreds of buyers along for the joyride at the same time they decided to quit using Ebay/Paypal to sell.

This then leaves hundreds or even thousands of buyers per seller that have to dispute the transactions with Ebay/Paypal and meanwhile the sellers take in $1000's or even $100,000 or more of dollars in their "going out of business" scams. Just imagine 1000 people getting scammed buying $2000 flat screen HDTVs from one previously great seller, and you can imagine the magnitude of this problem now.

But Ebay/Paypal has been causing this sellers rebellion with all the constant fee increases and the fact a seller now can't even leave a negative feedback to a deadbeat buyer, so why would a seller even want to use Ebay anymore? Ebay is methodically killing the gooses that laid the golden eggs, and they are still too greedy to even notice it.

Well put..

 

[randay]

seller takes ops money, sends him ear cheese item, op receives item, requests refund, seller tells him to send item back and will pay shipping. op sends item back, gets no refund, no shipping fee refund. seller wins.