Patriot
Nov 3 2004, 05:09 PM
Selling my F7 on Ebay. 9 bids in the first twelve hours. Someone hit my "buy it now" option which ended the auction. Turns out the buyer has a stolen ID. I noticed the guy lived in Seattle. 2500 miles from me. I thought "What a tool!" Turns out this guy has tried to buy 64 high dollar items. The I get an email from ebay, "I have already paid for this item. When will it be shipped?" Of course I'm selling with NO SHIPPING listed pretty clear. Now, My auction has ended which means I may have lost a few potential buyers, and Ebay is charging me their percentage of the selling price that didn't sell, and I have to pay to re-list it when it was only up for 12 hours out of seven days. Try getting help from Ebay. Forget it. Now I have to wait seven days to fill out a form for a non-paying bidder. Then I have to contact the billing department to try to get my new listing fee waived. Is it me? Or does this whole thing stink? Anyway, "Buy it now" can really f%#& you, so think twice about it.
kodiakman76
Nov 3 2004, 05:14 PM
I never use it. I have seen that happen way to many times. People go through and hit buy it now to everything they want. My first transaction on ebay I sold a dirtbike and some guy did it to me. I tried contacting him, and his address was in Yemen. Never again.
skidozer
Nov 8 2004, 07:20 AM
I just got screwed selling my mxz to a non registered buyer on ebay that lives in oregon and im in new york and they dont have a email address. I will also have to pay to relist my sled about $60 watch out for buyer llstudios :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
snowmobilemods.com
Nov 8 2004, 10:02 AM
People are not doing it, it is a computer virus, a bot program that infects someones computer and goes wild on BIN options(pulls login and password out of memory cache and runs itself, never check save my password or remember me). If you watch some of the bigger bots go, they are hitting BIN options 1 a second for an hour, no person could do that. I have watched some bots hit over 1000 BIN options in a row. You should be able to get a refund from ebay for the listing.
skidozer
Nov 8 2004, 12:22 PM
I got a credit right away from ebay because the winner was not a registered member it was just a little trickey to find and i relisted it.
I will not use buy it now again,I have sold 62 items all with buy it now guess i was due,you learn something new every day. :banghead:
caper711cc
Jan 28 2005, 08:50 PM
Bidding on a piece of construction equiment two days ago .Seller contacted me
saying he was ins. by e-bay for x number of dollars if I didn`t recieve my
machine .,wanted the money sent to him in Itlay?? I sugguested a escrow type
service and he didn`t nothing to do with it...price was too good to be true.
Heads up ...if it looks cheap some times there are catches ......
Cape Breton Stock...............
hate2looz
Mar 30 2005, 08:30 PM
Ebay will relist the item for free if it a dead beat bidder.
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