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Just sold an ancient 233mhz laptop on Ebay with my old games and stuff. Final bidder won it for £37 and I was charging £14.50 P&P to the UK. However I didn’t say that I was only selling to the UK.
Turns out that the retard who brought it is in the United States with 0 other purchases or sales to her name. This has already pissed me off, so I go to the post office and ask how much it’ll cost to send 7kg worth of laptop and games etc to the States and it’s £82.
Phew (thinks I) that’s a lot. Better raise the invoice to send to the user. Only ebay won’t let me charge £82 for international insured postage. WTF? So I can’t send this dozy cow an invoice for £119 for a £37 laptop.
Anybody know what to do? I’ve sent Ebay an email, so I’ll probably hear back next month. I’m pretty concerned as I’m literally selling all my stuff to pay the bills and if I have to honor the sale and send it internationally at my own cost I’ll be £45 down 🙁
I sort of had a similar problem selling comics to Ghost a few years ago with the uber high cost – sold them for £150 delivered but it would cost about £200 to ship, except in addition I only got a partial address (without a postcode) so the couriers wouldn’t take it off my hands as well as ripping me off, then Ghost disappeared so I can’t get a postcode or give him his money back.
I know someone this has happened to and eBay accepted it was an honest mistake
but if that fails I’d do one of the following m8
1. Refuse the sale, which you are legally entitled to do regardless of what eBay says and relist it with your correction. Wait for the person to slag you off on feedback then reply with “I’m sorry for the misunderstanding but I stupidly assumed that anyone with any common sense would know that £14.50 was oviously meant for the UK and it certainly isn’t going to cost that to send to the US dumbo” or something more diplomatic. I’d take a bit of bad feedback over a £45 sting I think m8. I often read peoples negative feedback and more often than not it’s unjustified. No-one sensible would agree that you should pay £82 out of you’re own pocket to ship a £37 laptop to the US.
….or2. Refuse the sale and re-join eBay 🙂
3. Refuse the sale and sell it on someones elses account.
4. Email the person outside of eBay saying you are sadly going to have to refuse the sale because it doesn’t make sense, my mistake yadyada and give her the option to arrange a courier herself -£14.50
Option 1’s best probably….an honest mistake, come clean, live and learn just not out of pocket. 🙂
good luck fella.
If the shit hits the fan id use this……..
except Johnny Cochran’s Dead and he was the only one that could use it. We could still do a benefit concert though.
I think that coupled with the Chewbacca defence and my own bloody-minded stubborness I’ll be going for option 1. I managed to send them an invoice for the full amount after some jiggery-pokery of the invoice, although my sister reckons it might be a scammer and not a genuine buyer.
Apparently she’s tried to sell a digital camera 4 times on eBay and twice some scammer from another country tried to con her out of it (the other time was some ‘tard whose PC had been ‘hacked’).
This is the second time I’ve tried to sell this laptop and something similar happened before, just not an internation incident like I fear this one might become.
Cheers for the advice Judge.
Yeah be careful dude, usually i only trade with people with at least 5 pieces of feedback to go on, regarding there not all negative, hgope it all goes well
It’s kind of sorted itself out. The dullard has somehow left eBay, so I think I get a credit on the sale for when I relist it. Still bloody annoying though.
Okay, so I just got an email from my phantom buyer ‘Agnes’ who although she’s no longer a member of eBay has emailed me privately to tell me that she’s paid for the laptop on Paypal (she hasn’t) and is awaiting reciept of her laptop.
Any ideas how to scam a scammer?
I read about this somewhere, someone made a mac book or something out of cardboard, and stuck cardboard keys on and made them pay for the delivery or something – sure the link was posted on here, and they got a s.hitty cardboard mac (not that the real thing is any better), and they also made a cardboard mac CD lol,
write back and tell her that your paypal doesnt work and she needs to make a transfer to a bank account. Then make up some account from the bank of Nigeria 😉
Oh and report her email address to ebay@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
Any ideas how to scam a scammer?
@==XDC=iNSANE wrote:
meet her then knock him out!
Which gender are they exactly – meet her then knock him out? I’m just fucking with you so don’t take offence, but if my posts are open for abuse, so are yours! 🙄
Has anyone seen Ghost so I can do something about the comics/refund?
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